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and welcome to episode 47 the TechnoBuffalo show I'm live your to host for today Sean ani editor-in-chief of the site i'm joined by the editor of the gaming department joey davidson hello everyone how are ya it's been a while since we've had you on the show I know it has been a while hasn't it yeah well it's one of those situations you know every so often somebody else where you are and we have to explain to them how long it takes to review a 60-hour game takes it will take 60 hours yes that is you know I know so many people tell me oh man that must be so awesome like think about it you have to sit down and play 60 hours and you have to do it in a very short window of time all right i mean i love the job it's awesome it's fun but it is not that easy so yeah yeah i uh he poor guy haven't play all those games oh don't don't try to make light of my plate well so for this week you know of course we'll throw it open to questions later but this is probably going to be Joey's only appearance prior to III will have him on again post III to go over his thoughts but uh so III is coming up in about a month for people that have never been to e3 I I know pretty much everyone knows what III is but is it the gaining paradise that so many people think it is you know I'm not really sure that I have a clear picture of what other people think it is it it didn't really line up with my expectations going into it when i attended my first one like 10 years ago which is really depressing to think about out loud uh-huh but it it back then i kind of expected this like you know very silly convention that was basically just like a comic con but slightly more professional it's not quite like that um it's a bit more professional in a comic con so so it is i don't know it's it's totally work while i'm there and but I know other people who perceive it a little bit differently i know our own eric frederiksen actually really really enjoys it as not just a work thing but he quite likes like the press conferences and stuff I personally am I don't want to say I'm done with them but the thrill is gone you know what I mean um you just go you listen to people talk a lot there's a lot of talking man there's a lot of people standing in front of you with basically PowerPoint presentations and saying like this this game's gonna be awesome let's go let's run down the reasons why it's gonna be so great in a really boring fashion so there there was a time in the comic book industry where every year I would attend a retailer conference and we were going through this period where everything was supposed to be dark and gritty sure and so you know they you you would also go to one-on-one presentations or like well in this book you know it's going to be taking a look at me go if you say dark and gritty uh dark and gritty is is our post-apocalyptic right yeah exactly thing everything was dark and gritty so yeah I'm sure you have the same sorts of buzzwords that get thrown at you time and time again well it also depends on the year by year basis and that that's one thing that Eric and I actually just just heard an editorial on that's gonna be going up on the site hopefully soon ish um but it's already scheduled yet oh ok so today probably um we talked about some of the fads that come and go and 3d was one of those fans like we couldn't we couldn't go anywhere with me three without getting like glasses thrown at us Sony handed them out on the way into their press conference a couple years back that was the same year that I think do you guys remember gosh what was his name the like fake spokesperson Sony had for a while he was like the VP of Awesome and although i can't remember his name but they got in trouble for appearing in the head with a nintendo that bridgestone tire commercial yeah giving away Wii U or a weird yeah actually got a camera his name anyway that was the year that he showed up at e3 and like gave part of their convention um so it I don't know I like it I like to show a lot it's fun um but maybe this will tell you I'm more excited about like going out to eat tonight girls I think that's just me i don't know kind no well you do a food person so just so long as Aisha Tyler shows up and makes awkward jokes you know during that rather aft I'd rather her than mr. caffeine dude oh good gravy so I I think for me the big question about III this year has so much of what was announced last year which was supposed to be coming this year has now been pushed back to 2016 so do you think that we're going to see them talk about those titles again almost exclusively or are they also going to add new titles on top of those can you give me an example one of these games that you're thinking I'm just trying to uh you know I was trying to think of it before the show I know bunch of games have been pushed back to 2016 so to take your pick of any one of them um by me we're going to this big delay cycle and so I'm just wondering at the studios and the companies and publishers and all that want to put even more games on the plate when they've already got so many that are delayed you know I would imagine that the focus is going to shift to the games that were delayed but I think that that both Sony and Microsoft are in a really weird position right now where they have to focus on what's coming this holiday we've yet to see too much in the way of exclusive like crazy balls to the wall titles that just one console can get I think each console maybe has one or two of those games sony has blood borne on the PlayStation 4 which which is doing really really well and Microsoft I guess maybe to even a lesser extent which is unfortunate had sunset overdrive last year was that earlier this year can't even remember i think it was like last it was late last year very cool game but again there's there's not been anything that's like oh my god we need I need to buy an xbox one or I need to buy a playstation 4 and I think that right now um those console makers are going to be beating the drum and trying to to make sure that we know that this holiday is going to be good and so many of the delayed games have sort of put this holiday into jeopardy but I still think it's going to be a good holiday and I still think that that what I'm most excited for it regarding like this end of the year stuff are the extra press conferences that we're having this year so the square enix the Bethesda these guys have never had their own shows before and the fact that they're having their own shows tells me that we're in for some really really big stuff I'm personally I would be almost surprised if we didn't see or hear from fallout 4 so and that's that's one thing i don't know if that's going to come out this year or whatever but but i think that that any void that we feel from the console manufacturers is going to be filled by these additional press conferences well I and I'm sure somebody will you all nouns half-life 3 yeah right that's what happen no no I what I want Square Enix to do is just come and go we are holding this press conference just to announce Dragon Quest 7 in English for deer on the press conference is gonna start dear ron dual it heard your request we're translating Dragon Quest 72 English it could be man I think Ron I think Ron could expend less effort just learning Japanese then then requesting that square enix trance-like translates this one single game I don't if you don't get the joke I'd like a square enix article can't run through her site without Ron and Ron's not gonna listen to this he's not gonna see this Ron always inserts a dragon quest seven joke so if you see some article by Ron about square enix click into it and read it and leave them a comment just say it's not gonna happen Ron stop asking it's become joys of my own private game of how many times per week Ron will bring up dragon cost seven in English yeah yeah well it's it's a great time but up so we've got a lot of questions here I think one that we have to get to before we get to some of the others because this one kind of uh Kevin Butler that was the PlayStation guys name thank you section oh cool let me see if I can find it here okay it's firm such a Mahal and why do you guys like red dead wood ocean some why don't you like red dead redemption at all oh man ah I'll take it I guess could I think that we like right dead for very similar reasons I think so Sean and I are both film nerds um and a lot of that is is just like cinemas like kind of an aesthetic thing and I think that you hear the word cinematic a lot when people talk about games and I know it means a lot of different stuff to a lot of different people cinematic gaming to me has nothing to do with frame rate or anything like that it has to do with composition of the game itself and red dead redemption is one of the best and most cinematic games I've ever played in my entire life it's everything from the music the art design the characters I mean everything in that game is pitch perfect there there really aren't I mean sure there was some glitches but like even those added to the charm of the game itself um I just there are very few games that I wish I could erase from my memory and play again from scratch and red dead is one of them totally loudly I mean I am NOT with the exception of very few westerns I'm not a western sky and I went into red dead with a lot of trepidation I was like I picked it up super cheap I was like add you know what the heck I'll give it a try I was hooked so fast I remember you you hadn't beaten it and I was this is like when I first started working mm-hmm here and I was like Sean just just beat the game just go play the game and you're like I don't know and then like I just remember there is one a couple days where you messaged me and you were like oh my god I'm so into this like I I've never been sadder to reach the end of the game yeah yeah one and it keeps going which i think is awesome too and yeah and it's a little bit of a letdown because jack is kind of annoying but things like you taught me Paul just like you taught me about yeah exactly uh that's such a good I mean it's such a good games if you haven't played it yet man you can get it for stupid cheap they're never going to pour it over to the PC people talk about that a lot it's just not going to happen you should get it because it holds up i played it three months ago i played through it again three months ago and it holds up really well so I didn't know you just played through it again oh I'm so tempted to sit down and do it again it holds up and I you know what I played it right on the heels of playing something on the PlayStation 4 that was open world I can't remember and I was like red dead looks better like what why is it that red dead looks better than this doesn't make any sense like fine yeah that's the thing red dead is also any for the time and even now it is still a beautiful game how many times did you just like Sun was setting and so you just stopped Oh constantly watched listen to the music and then just kept going like writing all the time I remember I got my 50 I started playing it on a 42 inch television and did while I was playing we got a 55 inch television and I just happened one time I was writing at night from the farm to the town yes I even remember where I was I happen to look down I could not believe there were horse prints in the dirt oh yeah yeah I was like that is so awesome that they I mean is the most textured real world feeling game i have ever played and yeah I now that I finally cut the cord I you know and the TV won't be commandeered so much I'm gonna have to read again man yeah yeah oh well that leads to such an balls next question I wanted to get that out of the way if Rockstar does announced another red dead game what do you think it'll be called and what are you hoping to get out of it Joey and I were just discussing like 48 hours ago different scenarios of what it could be called what the story line would be ill I've always thought it's going to be red dead revenge makes sense uh well and I think that so much of red dead redemption was about like the the West dying basically was the den why was that was the story in that game and I I think we're dead revenge kind of makes sense i mean you have jack already built into the and maybe he could take revenge on the law that killed his father though there was the actual actual end of the game I don't know if you actually got to that where you find the man yeah at the in the in blue yeah at the stream and you just shoot him in whatever um I think that Jack could probably even like take more revenge I want it personally I'd like to see something like red dead revival that that maybe you play someone trying to start a new game our new gang and like reclaim the Wild West in like a town or something maybe it would be really awesome to bring to bring lawlessness to a town yeah and a cool yeah cuz I I tried to play John very very lawful you know because I I've whined him to redeem himself yeah I think that here's what I would like to see we've both seen Deadwood I know we both love Deadwood oh yeah Al Swearengen in Deadwood was like the boss of the town it was a lawless town but Swearengen was kind of like this evil empire type of person and when the new sheriff moves in like it's all about their story against one another I would love to see a red dead revival where where that takes a lot of leanings from from Deadwood and so you might maybe you'll have like a town that is lawless but is in control by like a real renegade jerk and so your job is to ride in with new gang and so yes it's lawlessness but like it's it's the type of good lawlessness that that we liked about john marston so much so I don't know yeah and I think that's a great example because swedgin as much as he was evil he also wanted dead wood to be more right with its with his Hoople heads a mystery yeah watch deadwood and you have a stomach for foul language it's actually a pretty awesome show Deadwood is one of the few shows i have watched all the way through multiple times yeah I I finished it I got my wife to watch it I was like mega you should try this she started it up and I was like all right I guess I'll sit right back down and do it again yeah wow that was such an amazing show yeah I guess I like westerns more than I thought because i also love all the eastwood spaghetti westerns they're good yeah the man with no name geology is so good but so you're going in d3 what is it that you personally are hoping to see outside of red dead revenge is there anything that you're just like man I hope ah well I did that article about like games that that would kind of take me by complete surprise which i guess is sort of not fair because they've already labeled him as the games that would surprise me so they're no longer going to be surprised as I don't know I really want to see I think I'm cautiously optimistic about Microsoft this year because phil spencer has been promising a lot of things he's been promising this is going to be a really big return to gamers if i look at the xbox that was held by don mattrick a couple years ago that was the which was basically the TV machine that also played games and the one that Phil Spencer has been piloting right now I'm really excited about what's on on the docket for the xbox one I think that Spencer if he can live up to his personality could this could be one of their best e3's and I'm really hopeful that it is I'm hopeful for the wii u too i know that that zelda was delayed out of 2015 which is kind of a bummer and that looks like a fantastic game but i'm sure they're going to bring something for that i'm also sure that they're going to bring something for starfox as well and play I feel like Sony's is there there one or two exclusives from from easily having the best open to this generation I mean they already got that the sales and everything like that but I'm still not convinced as to console you must own at least not yet so I'm hopeful that they'll try it out some new ip's that kind of blow our minds or you know the new uncharted is is set to do big things too so a very interesting question here from cursor for miles do any of sony or microsoft's games besides maybe littlebigplanet successfully emulate Nintendo's quote family unquote fun factor and do you think they need more games on the fund rather than serious side okay um well I guess to the second part of that question yes I do I think that there need to be there needs to be games that are less murderous quite frankly my purse that would like to see a banjo kazooie revival and on the playstation front I'd love to see something like jak and Daxter Ratchet and Clank make a really big return as well I don't know if they need to go as far into that spectrum as Nintendo is I mean Nintendo's always positioned itself as the family friendly console but at the same time they do deliver experiences that people like you and me Sean enjoy um I don't know that's an interesting question as as for what they have out right now I can't think of any first party games that really meet that that demand that there's the kinect stuff but third-party publishers are meeting and exceeding it with stuff like disney infinity and Skylanders and everything else tho those are your kid focus games the lego games so I feel like for for Sony and Microsoft maybe they don't bank on that third party support quite like Nintendo does in the way if they are excuse me first party support quite like Nintendo does in the way of family-centric games they rely on third-party support to fill that void for them and I think it's working so far well I like to see less serious games from them yes but I don't necessarily think it's a given no I think you've got a good point there especially with skylanders and infinity being essentially platform agnostic do yes you have to buy the one specific to your console but it's available for everything mm-hmm you know I think maybe that is a good point you know why should we put our first party dollars and do it when we've got third parties making such successful right minecraft is on everything and and except for the wii u oddly enough and granted that is a microsoft-owned IP now but it wasn't when it made the chunk to all those platforms and I feel like the executives that Sony and Microsoft might think we've already got those bases covered with third-party support so we don't need to push first-party dollars into that and this leads into a question from such an Mahal d like any of the games like Disney infinity or Skylanders or any other figure based games and there you have a post that's coming up later today I that blew my mind about how many people are aware of these yeah I think that was from Eric yeah Eric wrote it man what do you think about this this move into the figure realm I think okay I think that it personally um I'm not too drawn into it and not as much as I thought I would be when I first started playing with these games I think that there's some fun to be had with stuff like Disney infinity and Skylanders and I know if my son who's like approaching for was actually closer to gaming age I would probably support him if he wanted to play with these games because they do especially disney infinity there is a really big creative back side to things like he could make his own games within the games which I'm totally down with and it's less mindless than other things and we have lego about to come out with one as well and and when Lego happens i think that the mindshare for it is going to get even more ridiculous like people everyone's gonna know about it and i have a feeling that you i don't know if any of you guys listening have a lego store in relative proximity to your home but if you're ever near one there's one in the mall maybe 15 minutes from my house and you go in and there are kids in the lego stores but then there's like old ass adults in the lego stores do like it it's like shopping which i think is awesome so those people i look at this in the same way I'm looking at Legos I think that it has a lot of cross generational appeal because you get the people that want to collect the figures you get the people who buy into these things because they happen to like and in the case of Disney they happen to like Marvel's Disney starts producing Marvel figures and and collectors are going to get them I know Sean you're a collector yep you know and and these figure based games Strike a really weird note that's both collection and consumption I think there was a special on one of PVCs or PVCs PBS is gaming about this it's a collectible but most of the time collectibles go unusable like when you when you buy sended to collect the whole point of it is to like display it on a shelf but they're also usable so there-there consumption-driven items so I mean I think that that just the whole idea here is super-smart and Activision with their Skylanders line really is what put it all on the map and that I don't personally buy into it but got it they're all cash cows as long as you tie them two franchises people like they're gonna pump out cash well to me the most evil thing I I'm not only am I collector I'm a completist yeah and so I play some infinity but I cannot allow myself not to have the power discs that's crazy man these things to me are the most evil ingenious part and notice that they were right at hand what it don't do is like give you like upgrades and stuff like that they give you upgrades or new vehicles or they change the landscape you know all that sort of stuff yeah the fingers aren't even to me the most evil part of the whole system it's the discs because you're like oh well if I had that disc but then I gotta hunt for a disc oh why don't I just go on ebay and buy a complete set yeah yeah no I the disc ah but yeah uh this is a question I know will make Joey's head explode from brazen Franco with publishers making game budgets bigger and bigger and expecting Salem members to compensate for it will the gaming industry ever faced a crash I think the days of a crash are behind us I think that sectors of the gaming industry will crash I think we're witnessing right fun right now and that's the android-based micro console I mean talk about dead in the water every company that comes out with an android-based micro console is basically facing 022 like very little sales and I'm talking about stuff like the oyea and and the Amazon TV and all that other stuff there's just no there's no drive for it there's a lot of people on TechnoBuffalo especially or throughout the years who said things like you know smartphones are replacing game consoles to me and I think that they are replacing the need for micro consoles but I don't necessarily think that they're replacing the need for game consoles and I think that just the gap might close between the two platforms but we're just talking about two very different experiences so no I don't think that we're going to see a mass gaming crash like we saw in the 90s and late 80s but I think that we're going to see less and less in the way of experimental games we're going to see even more sequels we are going to see even more safe bets companies really aren't willing to take risks anymore and that's because of the the budgets and I think that breast in your ear right man it's it's the budgets are getting ridiculous I can't remember the numbers right now but tomb raider the reboot before it made the jump to PlayStation 4 and Xbox one like just that full year that was out on the 360 ps3 and pc it sold what we would think was well right like we thought it did well and then square enix came out and said that thanks to the budget the sales numbers were disappointing that's not going to go away that problem is going to persist and unfortunately for us it just means that we're going to get less and less in the way of creative games but that's where the indie Cindy stuff steps up that's where Nintendo steps up luckily Nintendo sort of sees that and they just say well we don't care we're playing the long game here so that's fine so it's fine i'm cool with the big budget games but i also need my indie stuff too so you know you you mentioned how people are saying that phones are killing off you know this and that and the thing i hear the most is killing off portable gaming but i would beg to differ I mean I whenever I fly I tend to fly through dallas fort worth airport a lot like way too much and from the time i get off my plane get to the sky tram and get to the station at the next one i'll have ten street passes on my 3ds I'll run through those real quick my time I get to my gate i'll have ten more yeah and by the time I get on the plane i'll have three to four more yeah you know and i'm sure i've missed people because when you hit the ten you can't get any more yeah you know now you could say like a Comic Con last year I couldn't go through them fast enough they know I was picking up something to be expected really yeah but when you're speaking about some place like dallas fort worth airport that is not a gaming hotspot although although there is somebody that works there that I streetpass him every single time I'm in the airport awesome I kind of narrowed it down to where he works but every time I'm in that airport I streetpass him it's awesome but yeah I mean that to me alone you know that it's anecdotal evidence but it happens in every Airport I'm in yeah you know even when I go to Disneyland I take it with me and I'll StreetPass tons right there comic-con fine i understand but to say that mobile gaming is dying off i think is ignoring the fact that i wouldn't street past that many people in an airport if it was dying off I agree yeah I'm not quite sure why everyone keeps saying oh well you know everything has to kill something I've never understood that I I think that's going on in gaming as well right now you know smartphones are gonna kill off get yo gaming no it's not you know I just I don't get it but we shall see although I mean the idea of Konami going almost exclusively mobile is a frightening one to me well what's so frightening it sucks but what's so frightening about it what are we missing that's true you know konami's not quite the publisher they were ten years ago I mean that a lot of their IP have sort of tried out not to say bad things about Metal Gear because i love that franchise but you know castlevania is not what it once was is a lot of their horror games not what they once were so you know it sucks that they're going mobile I hope it's not a sign of things to come but konami has so much money in other departments been there pachinko division brought in so much revenue last year it's scary I will never understand pachinko uh you're not an addicted Japanese person so I've got it pachinko parlors when I've been over there I'm just like I don't get this so loud ah it's so incredibly loud from Christopher miles do you think Disney would give EA the green light for our star wars game along the lines of the tragically taken 13 13 given the war is dark tone of Star Wars rogue which is actually Star Wars robe one for anyone that's curious what we're discussing I hope 13 13 s not dead um that was that was one of the most surprising things I'd seen a couple e3's ago he was even three years ago it it just looks so good um I know that they were going to shop it around there was an update about a year or two ago where they were going to shop it around and see what was what was going to happen with it and I think that there was a lot of tech there that Disney would be sort of wasting if they didn't at least look into the potential of it I don't think that Disney's fear is the darkness of it I think that they're totally fine with that I think that they're more concerned with will it sell and you know the star wars franchise has always been very iffy in the gaming space and it seems like Disney right now is only willing to do shore things with the license um I think if he is being kind when it comes to the Star Wars gaming history yeah that has had some awesome games and then it has said some games that were kind of pretty much terrible um so depends I don't know I think that it's totally possible possible not probable but possible yep I hear either from brazen Franco do you think games will still release broken this year starting to avoid every that releases more than three ads slept on every popular website and TV channels I can see where he's coming from I if I was a standard consumer and when I am a consumer for video games I do not pre-order and you should not pre-order don't do it just don't do it it's stupid it is a waste of your money and it is a waste of your time just wait that said our games can still be broken yeah there's no doubt in my mind the only publisher out there that's really delivering consistently not broken games is Nintendo but you can't one cannot live on Nintendo alone hum Nancy I I've adopted the the no more pre-ordering thing except for a Arkham City I'm sorry I've already pre-ordered look I love Batman do you know I love Batman okay i just i'm not doing it i'm not i'm sorry i'm sorry w be eloquent tell me what do you'll see i'll get it on the the year the game of the year edition if I really need it it's just not gonna happen man I'm gonna wait hello hello hello I forgot to unplug my phone uh yeah in general I agree to Joey it's it is a dice roll anymore and I'm definitely ninety-five percent off of the pre-order wagon just stop now alright well I even remember before I wrote protecting a buffalo I remember when Red Dead was being solicited and there were all these pre-order bonuses and in that particular case that was a situation where you know it said oh you could get a better horse or you could get a better gun I was like you have no idea what these things are going to do in the game if they're actually important right now it is a is the speed of a horse actually going to make that much difference it didn't it didn't I mean it was nice but it didn't make that big of a difference yeah I so yeah I it's it's definitely a role that I said it's not always one from Christopher miles how do you think a post kijima metal gear would look well I don't know how's that for an answer I don't know no not not to knock Kojima here but maybe less convoluted the man likes his complex storylines and I think that that's putting it lightly how many times if we SAT through a metal gear cutscene just kind of went what yeah what are you doing right now and like I love it cuz like I like Metal Gear but like I don't love metal gear like other people when you start getting into discussion like solid snake liquid snake big boss boss I'm just like your kind of starting to lose me here like I'm okay with it and then you start talking about all the different syndicates and like all the groups that are involved and fox vs xof and just like so no I I don't know if it's going to be as good of a metal gear but it'll certainly be less convoluted um which might not be a good thing i know that some fans like their metal gears really complex because it's it's a lot more to pour own to and and Kojima has a pretty good history of making that all rewarding and worth your time he's going to be missed and I guarantee that if he goes out and kick-starts a game as soon as as metal gears is done and out the door it's going to be crazy I think he's going to get into developing licensed properties like strawberry shortcake I I really hope that him in del Toro make their own horror game that's that's very similar to it was gonna be or PT or whatever I think that that's going to be awesome that to me is the bazaars part of this whole story which part is that it the the fact that not only did they cancel silent Hills they they basically want to make it like that demo never existed yeah del Toro called it their scorched earth approach yeah and he's a hundred percent right it's like they're like salting crops is what they're doing yeah it's just stupid day I don't think but you know what like I've talked to friends about this and everyone I go F Kaname like they don't care and I'm just like nope Kaname probably the people making this decision are not on Twitter like they don't care they're looking at their portfolio of dude I don't know if you know this about Kaname but they have gyms like in Japan you walk down the street there's like a Konami gym they have real estate offices like they sell houses in commercial real estate and then pachinko parlors video games unless they're on the mobile front just really aren't making them as much money as everything else and they're not gonna care like it sucks for us that silent Hills is getting cancelled and that metal gear the phantom pain might be the last like huge console hit in the series but I don't think that the people Konami just really care at all it's just naughty it's not even a blip on the radar ya know I tend to agree oh shoot the I hate when the questions jump away just as I'm going to click on them because somebody voted on something as soon as I find the person's name again I'll go ahead and ask the question do you think Nintendo NX is going to be a home console yeah I've read the prevailing theories that it's going to be this weird mobile home console portable mashup thing I it's impossible to say I know that Nintendo is working with that company that they partnered with cheese what's their name it like has a lower case in it somewhere yeah it's a very odd name haha its escaping me right now I'd look but I don't want you guys to hear me Thunder type my way through a browser dina DNA de nada that's what it is okay so uh i know that they're working with them for their online infrastructure and i know that they're trying to tie the accounts between like their mobile and portable and home gaming experience they're not going to talk about it at e3 they said that the students that will hear about it is in 2016 that said I know that we're going to have some leaks do I think it will be a home console yes nintendo is going to stick with the television they're not going to get away from it they show us what the wii u that they're ready to relinquish the TV from time to time with gamepad play but you're still going to be able to play on your TV so i think it is to be a home console in that sense maybe it'll NFC connect and and you'll be able to take it on the go with its little screen and then you'll be able to get home and set it down on top of a base unit and get it into the TV that might be cool but I don't really know when that question came from brazen Franco I finally found it from I nicked aureus excited for Windows 10 integration with Xbox one do you think Cortana will be included in the mix whether it is through smart glass or on the console itself linking with this will edge replace Internet Explorer on xbox and possibly possible removal Bing well there's no way they're going to remove bang no it's too much money into that yeah way too much money if we assume that Microsoft's going to continue the trend that they've had with pc and mobile and that everything is going to be more unified I think that guess Cortana will probably be on the Xbox one it seems to me that Microsoft has taken a really big cue from what Apple's done with their their marketplace and they're like ecosystem like once you're on an Apple device like this is not me saying it's a good thing or bad thing I'm just saying that what they want consumers to think oh I own an iPad so the iphone is a much easier transition for me I think that Microsoft probably wants that same mentality in line with their devices that said you want everything across all platforms to be feature compatible and that means that if if Cortana is on I'm average Joe consumer this is a Microsoft product Cortana's on my surface Cortana's on my windows phone why don't i have court on on my xbox one Yeah right so it'll it'll be there it has to I mean it just makes sense the direction that their that they're pointing towards so it all unification is going to match up on everything and and so to answer that question about edge yeah I think I just going to push it out as well so very interesting question here from Christopher miles do you think Sony will try to push the Vita beyond the JRPG and indie gaming machine it's going to become or will embrace the consoles current niche mm yeah but I don't know I mean that seriously I'm someone who adopted the PlayStation Vita right away I still like it for what it is I also wanted to like it for what I thought it was going to be I thought that uncharted was really promising it was kind of a mess of a game but it was still promising and then we had gravity rush as well which i think was gravity days in Europe um that's a good question i don't i don't know i think about it a lot too i don't know what their plan is for the vita and sometimes it seems like they've abandoned it almost sometimes I look there there are days and weeks where I'm like why isn't Sony pushing this machine like it so it's a really good portable it had some missteps that have really heard it I think part of that is the memory card expense people are looking at the cost of the PS Vita and the memory cards got in the way well okay so now the memory cards are still the same price that they were at launch and the games that are coming out for it just aren't attracted to everyday users I love my PS Vita and I've racked up like 120 hours in the persona 4 golden and was really happy with that and that's after I played it once through on the ps2 so it's hitting all the right notes for me but I'm not your average consumer I don't think so gosh I hope they do something about it Christopher but i'm not sure what what that'll be I you know for me I do own a Vita and I own a 3ds but like for when I travel I just you don't even ponder the Vita and a lot of it is because of the 3ds is clamshell designing I know that the buttons are protected the screen is protected you know AII no that's not really what was being asked here but I do find that I'm just not I don't gravitate as much towards the Vita because of possibility of damage I think see you on the flip side of that this makes me sound like a terrible electronics user but I talked the PS Vita and my 3ds in the same bag with no padding and I'm not I just don't worry about it and I don't even have a single scratch on my PS Vita so like it but i think it was built with that in mind like it's a tough it's a tough device should you take keys to it probably not i was just going to pick up he's go do that just do that yeah obviously because I mean you just told me how tough it is so immediately I have tells you you have the space and you have games to play I wouldn't let portability get in your way because it can take a beating inside a bag it's fine and this will probably be the last question of the day from such a Mahal what kind of games do each of you guys like I've been that questions been here since the show started I've been thinking on it I really I personally don't have specific genres mmm well I play everything yeah i I'm I'm kind of the same way yo from platformers touché mumps to what is mumps are those like the mumps but that's how I say it I don't most shmups whatever mumps bullet hell mom I can't go to school today I got the smokes the weirdest thing it's terrible now I remember why I wasn't sad when you stopped hosting that's good but no I I'm very I'm kind of all over the board when it comes to John Rose yeah yeah same here right now just just to give you a nice look at what I'm right now I'm playing through splatoon Witcher 3 i'm replaying mario golf because it's like golf season here in Delaware so that's that's really starting to kick off and I'm back into hearthstone because of the the port to mobile that didn't happen too long ago and that's pretty much every genre ever so I'm all over the place I think that stuff I prob well I guess maybe an unexpected honor for me I really like sim building games like a Sim City or something but that's not that weird anymore that used to be kind of weird people used to look at me like man you know like city builders and I'm like yet can sink basin to those things mmm but too bad SimCity so go get city skylines cuz it's really good I've nerd it out very hard on that one and the fact that you have mods oh my gosh the mods and city skylines are so good anyway that's me I play everything yeah i just i I've never been able to lock down to any one type of game I mean going back to like the original Nintendo you i might play contract for a half hour and then i'd play zelda for an hour you know it just bounced all over the place heck yes I agree ok I i think if you get you know but like people that lock themselves into you know a certain genre they're just they're missing out on too many great experiences chairs they won't open their horizons sure i don't think they're that many people left to do just that anymore i think if you talk to most people they like a wide swath of games so yeah yeah I think you're right hey if you walk into stores ESU their dominated by first-person shooters but there's enough other stuff there yeah definitely get your interest well I believe that is going to bring this episode to a close as I said we will have Joey on again after e3 to debrief and you're going to sit there you're gonna co-host I'm not gonna calm not coming not doing it you're doing I will make you do it don't make me send you to your bedroom without dinner but as always we do appreciate you joining us you can find us on the itunes store by searching for the type of buffalo's show and we do appreciate your rain review us that does help out the show you can also find us 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