Season 19, Episode 21

It’s hard to shake off the pull of something successful. I mean, it can be easy if you’re outright against it or don’t have the means to obtain it or whatever. Basically, there’s exceptions, right? But I’m speaking in the sense, as almost always I do here, in terms of video games. A successful console […]

So, about that write up last week… I think I mentioned that Borderlands 4 would be a test for that $80 third party gaming pricing. Turns out, it won’t. Since they are basically pricing it as pretty much any other current gen triple A game. I don’t know what game will eventually be that test, […]

We’ve circled back around to the price of our hobby again. Not so much the consoles and PC components, those will always run a premium. But the games. Nintendo is testing those waters with their first party titles. So, it’s their exclusives. If you want to play them you’ll have to pay those prices. Microsoft […]

“Too much is not enough” Actually, yeah. Yeah, I kinda think too much is more than enough. They need to space these things out. The Summer Game Fest video alone is 3.5 hours long. And it is back to back to back titles over and over again. The next day had SEVEN more events of […]

“You cannot f___ the future, sir. The future f____ you.” So, we’re back to the discussion of $80 games, and to get right to the core of it—this is happening. It was probably always going to happen. Inflation affects everything—food, materials, consumer goods—prices inevitably rise, and video games are no exception. The same goes for […]

How do you solve a problem like GTA 6? What I mean by that is that when you have a game like GTA 6 it sort of dominates the store shelves – it dominates the topic of conversation. And getting back to the store shelves that’s the problem. When you release a game like this, […]

We might be done for a while talking about the Switch 2 (but not for very long), but in its place we now have GTA 6. Just swapping one evil for another. And no, they aren’t really evil, but those prices sure are. Oddly enough, prior to like a month ago, GTA 6 was the […]

So, maybe for a while we might be done talking about the Switch 2? Pre-orders are out (some oddly still available) and now it’s just the waiting game until June 5th. I was able to get in a pre-order myself, but I’ll be on the fence for either keeping it or canceling. And if I’m […]

We’re finally getting to order our Switch 2’s. Well, pre-order them. We’re also finally settled on a price and, as it turned out, it was the price we knew all along anyway. So, for now, it’s the $450/$500 situation. That price won’t change through the release on July 5th. Although given how quickly things have […]

It’s been two weeks and I’m past the point of being tired of talking about tariffs. At least where Nintendo is concerned. And, I guess, where our gaming hobby is concerned. PC components, consoles, games, digital or otherwise, just tired of talking about it and speculating on it. At this point I’m of the mind […]