 Hey everyone, I have a kind of end of the week here's the news for you guys because there are so many big stories from E3 To MLB the show being on game pass a whole bunch of crazy stuff In fact also further evidence that Sony might really be giving up on Japan due to a new release on phones It's rather rather interesting, but before I get into that. Hey, I gotta remind you we do have a giveaway going on That's it. It's all about the time we're giving away a hundred dollars in cash head on to the description or pink comment to find out All right, let's go our first story is about E3. So first up E3 is happening That's like the number one thing here is we are having E3 this year There was a report going out there from video game Chronicles yesterday That E3 basically was going to have like a free version and a paid version and the paid version would have demos behind it Well, the ESA has come out to say No, that's literally not happening at all Everything is going to be free. So if there are demos, they'll be publicly available That's basically what it sounds like what the big really real takeaway here is that ESA is very confident E3 is happening They actually are renaming it to the electronic entertainment experience instead of the expo for this year So still you know E3 but with a different meaning for the last E and yeah, it's pretty interesting to me This does mean we're getting press conferences back. I don't know who's all participating, but press conferences will be there It's gonna be free all streamed online. It's gonna be a lot of fun. It's just nice to know that there is E3 happening We'll have to see if it can really live up to E3's of the past I mean at this point based on what we got last summer It can't really be worse than anything else that happened last summer remember the Ubisoft forwards. Remember the summer game fest Remember the no Nintendo directs. Yeah, it really can't be worse than that last summer So I'm pretty excited to see what E3 is bringing this year Our second story is one I mentioned right away at the start and that is whoo I'm gonna be the show 21 is coming to game pass day one So I'm gonna be the show releases at the end of this month It's coming to game pass day one and this is a very interesting experience and it sparked a lot of debate in Conversation online. I think there seems to be a lot of confusion around MLB the show because it was previously Exclusive to PlayStation and it's created by a PlayStation owned studio So what the hell is going on? Well first up? We already knew it was going multi-platform There was a deal struck with MLB a few years ago actually to extend the current licensing agreement between Sony and MLB to continue to use MLB player like this is MLB stadiums all that jazz basically The major sports license themselves to be used so like Madden is licensed with an exclusivity contract to the NFL The NBA licenses it's used for NBA live and NBA 2k So yeah licenses are a thing and they wanted to extend the license so they could keep making it and MLB this time around said Hey, we're cool if you want to extend the license But what we're not cool with is the fact that there isn't a viable baseball game The other platforms so if we are to renew with you guys you must agree to make this game Multi-platform and in that agreement Sony and MLB came to agreement saying hey Sony will publish the game on their platforms and Well MLB themselves will publish the game on Xbox What's interesting about that decision is MLB controls the distribution of the game They get to decide how it's on Xbox where it's on Xbox when it's on Xbox Basically Sony can't control how the game is delivered. So when it was announced for game pass today What that tells you is MLB decided to partake in game pass along with the physical copies and the digital copies They'll be selling as well and you might be why would they do that? Well, like everybody who's a big triple-a developer. Why is EA now part of it? Why is Ubisoft part of it? Why did Outriders launch which I know servers down But why did Outriders launch on game pass? because Microsoft wrote them a fat check They wrote a check to baseball baseball said yes, we'll take your money. Put it on game pass. We're good So that's really what happened. So yeah, and we'll be the shows on game pass again Really interesting because it's a Sony made game on Xbox on game pass Which Sony doesn't like and will not make their own version of there's been some people like You know Greg from kind of funny games out there saying hey, this is a really bad You'll look for Sony and PlayStation Plus. I want to know like PlayStation Plus is not the same as game pass guys I know there's big games on PlayStation Plus. I have PlayStation Plus I have some of those big games downloaded, but it's not game pass PlayStation Plus is just games with gold. What for PlayStation? It just happens to be better than games with gold But it's not game pass Sony does not have a game pass equivalent. So we'll have to see what how this shakes out down the road I'm very interested to see what the numbers are gonna Like look like between the people who are playing it on game pass versus the people who buy the game physically We finally have like a big name game where that's a that's something we can measure because MLB the show Whether you're into sports games or not Sells a lot of copies every year. It's a big seller for Sony Hence why they wanted to re-up this deal even though they had to make the game multi-platform So well to see what happens, but right now MLB the show is on game pass So I don't have to worry about which platform I'm gonna buy the game for anymore because I have game pass Why would I buy a game that I already have access to through a service? I'm already paying for I Know ownership all that who cares the sports games that come out every year This next story is another interesting one that just popped up in my timeline today And that is a new world record was set today Involving Mario and you might be thinking oh a speedrun record. No actually it's the sale of a game It's a world record for the most expensive sold game in video game history And that is an original copy of Super Mario Bros from 1985 Still sealed with a nine point six rating. So yeah not ten mint, but nine point six mint Because nine point six is considered up in the mint range. Yeah completely sealed copy. It's sold for six hundred and sixty Thousand dollars it is the by far and away the most expensive game sold It's also funny because there was an episode with a similar copy on pond stars where the guy asked for a million dollars And pond stars basically laughed him away that game might actually be worth a million dollars today So yeah, this is pretty crazy Mario gets to have another world record next to his name although this case is just from people buying the original game And it's sealed version, but yeah, this is awesome like I I don't I wish I had $660,000 disposable income to do this, but I still think it's really cool to see the value of retro games Really just the value of sealed retro games to be so high because those are the ones that are going to probably last and Stand the test of time versus the ones that aren't sealed and are open to the air and all that jazz So Jeff Keely announced today, which obviously a lieu of the E3 stuff He wanted to get his name out there that summer game fest is coming back this June now the thing is I don't really know That I care so much there's going to be game announcements. There's going to be developer interviews. There's gonna be music It's gonna be a nice event, but he does it all summer long like it not on random days They're on preset days but it always feels like it's long and drawn out and not enough big Announcements to have such a long drawn-out event all summer if I had any advice for Jeff Keely It would be to take summer game fest and condense it to a week like E3 is if you would take the entirety of game Fest condense it to a week I think you would actually see a bigger reception and a possible shot to replace E3 By having so much hype in such a short period of time But you know extended it all summer is what he's chosen to do again this year. So June July August There'll be stuff going on for summer game fest. I just Will have to wait and see obviously what you see what announcements come. That's obviously what's most important So for right now, it's just coming back. We're not really sure what's going to be present in it yet But like last year there were game announcements there were game trailers there were developer interviews So we'll have to wait and see what Jeff Keely has in store for summer game fest this year Lego Star Wars the Skywalker saga has officially been delayed out of spring. This is both good and bad news It's bad news in that. Hey look this game is something I'm really hyped for and it sucks I got to wait longer to play it right. That's always like the bad news with delays is you have to wait longer. No, I Saw this game behind closed doors at E3 2019 God that was a while ago. I saw behind closed doors saw a private demo guys This is the best Lego game ever made and potentially the best Star Wars game ever made and they're together as one game I'm telling you guys. That's how amazing this game looked back in 2019 and the game's still not done now on the other hand It's also a good day delayed the game because we don't need another cyberpunk 2077 situation. We want a finished product We want a well-running product on all platforms. Remember, this is coming to switch. This is coming to Xbox PlayStation PC It's everywhere. So we want this game to run great on everything. So take your time, please Make sure that that demo I saw behind closed doors back in 2019 that the actual game lives up to it because We're talking open-world Star Wars Like nine planets it covers all nine of the major films. I'm this is oh, I'm excited. I'm So sex is delayed not out of 2021 by the way just out of spring So maybe they're getting maybe the shooting for summer Maybe they're just dealing with bugs right now, but hey, I can appreciate a good delay as long as the game ends up working out In the end. So clap hands golf Just released on iOS arcade. So Apple arcade. Who cares? I Mean we don't cover mobile games really right well except in this case because This studio clap hands was the makers of everybody's golf Everybody's golf has been a Sony exclusive game dating back to 1999 Clap hands the the studio in Japan has never made a game for any other platform, but Sony their last game Everybody's Golf VR released on in 2019 for PlayStation 4 VR Hmm now this game is all on iOS This version of the game is not on PlayStation 5 not on PlayStation 4 It's exclusive to Apple Arcade. How the hell did that happen? Well, Sony Japan their development studio Lost like four figureheads in the last week. They just straight up left the company Why well Sony has really been de-emphasizing game development in Japan from their own studio Since they moved the headquarters of their gaming segment of Sony to California They're really focused more on Western. Yeah, there's a lot down contracts with Final Fantasy and stuff But when it comes to their own internally developed games They're kind of done with Japan and we've known this for a while But it just keeps building up and this is just further proof of that with this this game going to Apple Arcade not coming at all to Sony It's it's kind of a sign of the times that the company realized. Hey Sony doesn't care about Japan anymore So why should we care about Sony? That's let's go to a different platform It's really popular in Japan now. Obviously some of us would say why did you go to switch? But I mean it makes it makes sense to go to phones as well phones are even bigger than anything switch could ever provide So so the numbers are in for monster hunter rises launch week in Japan This is actually news for again from yesterday brief I wanted to touch about it because there's like some people trying to twist this into being negative or positive And I'm not sure any way you could slice it other than hey, it's not bad So monster to rise is sold out in Japan. Let's start there can't find physical copies anymore. It's sold out They under shipped they did not ship enough copies of this game They could have probably sold 1.5 1.8 million if they had actually shipped that many copies capcom underestimated and didn't ship enough Maybe they were pushing digital sales. That's a theory out there. I don't think that that holds any water I just think they did not expect These kind of sales I guess at launch so it's sold 1,302,000 units essentially That's a crazy amount of units and would mark one of the biggest launches for switch in Japan Now the thing is monster hunter worlds launch for Japan for PlayStation 4 was bigger at 1,350,000 units But then week two was only 200,000 week three was 100,000 and it quickly dove down because there just isn't that big of a PlayStation 4 audience like 9 million is nothing to scoff at but also that's very limited amount of audience to sell to switch has 17 18 million units in general like double the amount already So it's highly likely gonna have a bigger tail of sales and so it could potentially outsell world now Should we personally care as gamers if monster hunter rise outsells world? No, because That's console war bullshit. It's all the same franchise. It's selling incredibly well Monster hunter always sells incredibly well whether it's on PSP Vita PlayStation Xbox which it doesn't matter 3ds like everything monster hunters on it sells. It's a system seller That's what it is. And it's not speaking the system sales the Nintendo switch move 279,000 units last week. That's a lot of units. It's a lot of units PlayStation 5 by the way sold like 60,000 which I know doesn't sound like much in comparison That's actually the highest week of sales replaced issue 5 since launch week in Japan No major games came out either. So it's kind of an interesting to see that happen. But anyways That's so cool. What why are we talking about this then? Well, I've seen a number of comments on the internet that really upset me Really really upset me Comments like hey Monster Hunter rise doesn't need to exist. It's redundant if it can't beat the sales of world What not the same game? That's like saying we should never have a guys. That's it monster hunter world debt stick a fork in the series It's done. We have that game now. We don't need any more monster hunter. Fuck you capcom Who needs it? Oh my god, I Think we can all agree on the stupidity of that comment. Anyways, that's it for here's the news today Hopefully you enjoyed this episode. We had so many big news topics Hopefully I got through it all here for you guys made a lot of sense I hope be sure to enter our giveaway for the month and I love you guys. I'll see you in the next video