Microsoft 'redefining what it means to be an Xbox fan' | This Week in Videogames

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Thank you for smearing that BS in our face immediately!

[@dec3142]

Will you be reviewing Alien: Rogue Incursion?

[@brandonw864]

@@jdubb-a-yoo7692 Did you know you can skip ahead? Let him get the bag so he can make good content.

[@mosermi443]

video glitch at 19:28

[@TheNerd]

Can't wait for the headlines from Elden Ring of hacked players, because From Soft refuses to patch their Security Vulnerabilities for ages now. Multiplayer/BR from a non competent company. No thank you.

[@CriticalNobody]

“Game has cards. Casinos have cards. Therefore game is casino” - PEGI logic

[@UndrAttack]

Meanwhile NBA2K has actual slot machines.....that's just basketball though, lol.

[@Durp-E-Derp]

@@UndrAttack All sports games with Roulette, Slot machines and other gambling games are just sport... idk why its so hard to understand 😆 But any deckbuilding games that has any form of cards... totally gambling!!!

[@clark2109]

The actual logic that learning the rules of a real card game is something you shouldn't be exposed to until you turn 18 is honestly more hilarious lol

[@allhailderpfestor4839]

Math class using cards for probability lessons (which usually doesn't involve poker directly but sometimes does): nervous sweating.

[@experimentsininsanity4478]

@@clark2109 Not to mention that in the vast world of board and card games there are many, many games that use the concept of poker hands without any form of gambling. Off the top of my head: "The Gang" is a mass-market release this year and it's like weird, cooperative poker; and Fliptown and Pioneer Rails are two games played with a deck of cards where you build up a poker hand over 5 rounds for some bonus points. None have any gambling at all. Is the PEGI ratings board a bunch of 90-year-old grannies who still think playing cards are of the devil?

[@GeremyG]

Is this video an Xbox?

[@chrisfit]

Are you an Xbox?

[@missedmurphy]

Am I an Xbox?

[@marcinpomidor1226]

Is Xbox really a Xbox?

[@Quester91]

The xbox are the friends we made along the way

[@Actionfigure_fit]

This channel has been a Xbox for quite some time lol 😂

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It's not tomorrow until I sleep and wake up.

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Or as I like to call it, fake Friday

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Bro it's Sunday right now, and SkillUp has been dead for twenty years. Your family needs you to wake up

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When ralph uploaded this it was technically Friday in sydney time. i can confirm this as an australian

[@0uttaS1TE]

@@spike315 W-what are you talking about?

[@Craig-gq9wd]

Random post but thank you for never taking sponsorship from a betting company

[@Alexisonscope]

I don't think he's ever done BetterHelp either has he?

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The bar for sponsorship standards is in hell but at least he manages to go over it lol

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Gambling and betting is a tax on people that are bad at math, just such an obvious scam god bless Skill Up for not pushing that stuff

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[@daLukasMain]

0:14 Gamers / Ralph's content for the rest of the year 1:10 Outer Worlds 2 coming to PS5 1:52 Satya Nadella talks "This Is An Xbox" marketing 3:58 Borderlands 4 writer on excluding certain jokes 5:22 Balatro gets R rating 7:49 Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance getting delisted 8:31 Steam Awards 8:54 Apple app store Awards 9:37 Secret Level TV show geting season 2 10:01 Nintendo and the Unpacking scam game 10:52 Pacific Drive getting TV adaptation 11:15 Wallace & Gromit teaming with Pokemon for adaptation 11:37 Layoffs at WB Games Montreal 12:13 Hideki Kamiya speaks about new studio 12:47 Capcom talks about revisiting more dormant IP's 13:25 Former Marathon dev suing Bungie 13:55 Nintendo now owns 100% of Monolith 14:15 Random Sales Numbers 14:47 Announced & Delayed 15:38 Day Of The Devs announcements 21:42 Review Round-up 25:05 Out This Upcoming Month 27:57 Put This On Your Radar 28:42 Epic Games 'sort of free stuff' 29:06 Playstation 'sort of free stuff' 29:18 Nintendo Online 'sort of free stuff' 29:39 Apple Arcade 'sort of free stuff' 29:59 Prime Gaming 'sort of free stuff' 30:30 Feel Good Story 31:40 Outro

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You're a hero! 😘

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Thanks

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Thanks, the one trash thing about this channel...NEVER has timestamps

[@kevikiru]

You are doing God's work mate!

[@ClaytonPajot]

6:05 I can't wait to use the gambling skills I've learned in Balatro to score a flush five at my local casino and earn a billion dollars

[@nchldmn]

Some say the real xbox were the friends we made along the way...

[@MrRoundthetwist]

Xbox ♥️

[@DemonEyes23]

16:30 Jelly is made from the juice only and is smooth and translucent, Jam is made from crushed fruit and is thicker in consistency, preserves are similar to jams but contain solid chunks of fruit, and marmalades are generally citrus based and contain bits of the rind.

[@tookule4skool]

Thank you came here to say the same thing 😂

[@Telzrob]

This is simplified but the quick breakdown of (American) Jellies, Jams, & Preserves. Jelly is made from strained fruit juice. Jam is made using mashed fruit. Preserves has whole or pieces of fruit. And yes, they're all now Xboxes as well.

[@experimentsininsanity4478]

And "gelatin" or "gelatin dessert" is the, erm, gelatinous food made with collagen taken from animal body parts.

[@Telzrob]

@experimentsininsanity4478 Also an Xbox.

[@Pestigirioso]

19:18 Argentinian (spanish speaker) here. First of all, great pronunciation there with that word. Second, that word "Despelote" is a way of saying that something is messy or a mayhem. Greetings, great video!

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

So my lingering sense of dread and dismay at Mircosoft these days is also an Xbox?

[@bharadwajvs7795]

Never opened a notification more quickly. Can't wait for this year in video games to see outer wilds being the absolute goat of 2024.

[@eric7591]

19:50 Star Birds is also based on the characters from the science KZbin channel Kurzgesagt. It's one of the best channels on all of KZbin, so hopefully the game is good.

[@separatereality7259]

Suicide squad flops. Warner Bros.: Lets fire QA, because its their fault that developers made a shit of a game. This industry is a joke.

[@katamarankatamaranovich9986]

Well, they can't fire executives

[@aussieseal9979]

It’s not the devs fault either lol.

[@separatereality7259]

@ yea, WB decided to make game unplayable with 0 screen visibility, for sure brother.

[@StonedApe985]

The QA should’ve warned them that the game was trash, they failed to do their job so they deserve to be fired.

[@Gungho73]

@@StonedApe985 As someone who used to work in QA, there was literally a suggestions/comments folder at my company that had fuck all to do with actual bugs. That's where I'd put in suggestions like (I'm going to use a specific company I didn't work for example) in Mario Party, many of the mini games rely on the color red/blue as color contrasts. Maybe you should offer a color blind option to players, something that is getting a bit more common nowadays. If you're lucky, they will take the time to implement that suggestion. If you're unlucky, they will say nothing and you won't even get a reply. If you're actually unlucky, you'll have shit developer email you back because they hate you for even suggesting more work and to mind your own goddamn business and the QA lead/representative come into your office and go "please don't rock the boat. They are very upset with your suggestion." People like to blame QA (I'm not immune to this, I will play a game for an hour and ask how something got through knowing full well how or why it happened) but a lot of times, it is the least financed and understood part of the project. People don't understand what its like for a company to go we need 200 hours of QA in this coming period and for a project lead to actually suggest getting 100 people for 2 hours. As in, the first hour, to two hours of a game will now be extremely polished and nothing else. And for others in the brain tank to think, that sounds right? Or having a PR guy go "we are very excited about our couch coop adventure game" (coop is not nor has ever been an option listed). It's extremely frustrating to know you will submit potentially game altering/breaking bugs to certain devs and they will never, ever fix them and then get shit on it later by a community that doesn't realize you saw it, and that shit developer is being shit lazy as fuck developer while being under or some cases unpaid by shit as fuck publisher. God I'm glad I got out of that industry.

[@shadowofnoc5760]

RIP Xbox console brand. They never recovered from the Xbox One release and Don Mattrick's famous "just buy an Xbox 360" back in E3 2013. That man single handedly started the downfall of the console brand.

[@MrRoundthetwist]

That was bad, real bad lol They seem to be carving a new path though through that rubble

[@Madlock_]

That press conference was a visual guide on how to lose billions of dollars in less than 60 mins

[@Gungho73]

@@Madlock_ Don't forget the nonsensically stupid follow up that was the failure to properly explain the "iterative xbox" plan less then 2 years later. Were it not for Nintendo's absolute shit slipping adventures with the Wii U I wonder how deep Xbox could've fallen in a hole last generation. I still think the naming convention of the new console is difficult to follow so I just gave up and call it the new Xbox or the stupid tower thing Microsoft put out.

[@lutherheggs451]

Except well it started in 2005 with them knowingly releasing a defective product to the market, which had a 54% failure rate and cost them billions of dollars to replace those known defective consoles, with other known defective consoles until they ran out of defective stock. Sorry not sorry, Xbox has NEVER made a penny for Microsoft and the shareholders have wanted to get rid of Xbox hardware since the 360 era

[@Gigabomber]

The platform is better than Sony's, always has been

[@demon_otf_1803]

@SkillUp just an FYI, but Jelly is a form of Jam made with fruit juice rather than whole fruit. Jam is usually thicker and can sometimes have seeds, while Jelly is almost always totally smooth and kind of translucent.

[@experimentsininsanity4478]

And "gelatin" or "gelatin dessert" is the, erm, gelatinous food made with collagen taken from animal body parts.

[@Onigure]

The balatro dev is such a mega chad. I hope he becomes a millionaire and give us another brilliant game.

[@TheLongestTake]

Ok so Pacific Drive adaptation is actually a stellar idea. I would love to see that world explored.

[@timwhitman3207]

Jelly and Jam are two separate things, Ralph. Similar, but different. We have Jam here, and it's different from Jelly. I prefer Jam.

[@Zhiroc]

FYI, in the US, we have both "jam" and "jelly". A "jam" usually has fruit pulp (also sometimes called "preserves", but even then, I think "preserves" typically has a higher level of pulp). A "jelly" usually has no pulp, seeds, or whatnot.

[@SerPodrick]

How is a card game "more mature" than games wherein you shoot people...

[@tequila_tibbs7938]

Because money

[@zooka0619]

He forgot to add in the Black Myth Wukong director throwing a pitiful tantrum over losing GOTY to Astro Bot lol

[@krucible9369]

The Warhammer 40K and Armored Core episodes of Secret level are 10/10 masterpieces

[@adamkrtek9004]

Agree. I also really liked the pac-man too

[@chromesucks5299]

The one with the Arnie being King was pretty good too

[@bitpine]

Gamers! 0:14 Edit: wow PEGI is an actual joke!

[@GoufinAround_]

Bless your heart

[@kaingates]

Goat

[@SimplyMavAgain]

i was so happy when i was finally able to play New Super Mario Bros. on my Nintendo DS after turning 18. At first i thought an 18+ rating on a Mario game was odd, but when i saw that one of the Mini Games was playing Poker with Luigi I completely understood.

[@diogoferreira5883]

Merry christmas Skill Up team 💙

[@DextRAR]

If a company needs to 'define' what it means to be a fan of theirs, something has gone wrong

[@MrWizardGG]

Yeah, America has lots of monopolistic and anticompetitive problems.

[@Gungho73]

I remember Razer doing the same damn thing with their Ouya follow up. Literally you'd open the box and it'd be talking how pro leet you were of a Razer gamer brand ambassador.

[@MrWizardGG]

@@Gungho73 that's not the same thing as xbox going multiplatform lol

[@C64Mat]

As an Xbox fan since I bought my first Xbox in 2004 - The Crystal - and having gone through every generation since then, including limited editions and mid gen refreshes like Scorpio, and having played thousands of games and amassed over 1.3 million gamerscore and had countless hours of fun online with family and friends throughout the history of Halo, Gears and Forza, I can say with absolute certainty that Xbox is heading in a direction I absolutely _hate_ All they had to do was keep it simple - make great first party games exclusive to their best hardware with the best matchmaking, and make sure third party developers and publishers had incentives to release on the system. Somehow, they've fucked up on both fronts. I don't want my TV to be an Xbox, just like I never wanted my Xbox to be a TV. How can they get it so wrong, so often? Oh yes - corporate greed and shareholder appeasement. Bring back the days of gaming in my bedroom with my C64 and swapping tapes with my friends.

[@tequila_tibbs7938]

Im a pc nerd, but i would buy a conslow if it had first great first party split screen games: like halo 1

[@Parsley_Thyme]

It’s funny to me how literally nothing changes for the Xbox gamer if their 1st party games go to other consoles, yet they think it’s the end of the world. Even though now you have more choice in where to play those games. Get a PlayStation if exclusive games are the important thing for you. Or continue to play the same games you always would have had access to on an Xbox, or any device you want.

[@Swyfty_]

@@Parsley_Thyme And that's the big question going to be asked when the next gen consoles arrive. Why should I buy the next Xbox? If Sony will have all the games Xbox does plus their own exclusives there is no reason to get an Xbox. I already feel like I made the wrong choice continuing with Xbox this gen, missing out on the PS exclusives and barely having any on Xbox, I'm not going to make the same wrong choice again.

[@absolutelypro4612]

Dont buy the next one. Its over

[@kayc7442]

​@@Swyfty_ This may be the last console generation.

[@kunimitsune177]

You're not Italian. You're Australian. Your granny is Italian. That's different.

[@dtanobo]

Person discovers nationalities. Read a book mate

[@intolerablescamp1436]

dude I keep seeing you commenting about this -- it's actually super sad on your behalf. who gives a fuck. you can be australian and italian at the same time my man

[@jon8234]

@kunimitsune177 wtf?

[@VeggiePun]

You know who else is an Xbox? MY MOM! WHOOOOO

[@kingszeno]

Secret level was an awesome CGI showcase, absolutely recommend to everyone. It also had a concord episode, that was weird.

[@dannysmi7162]

They should’ve just made Concord a TV show if they really wanted their narrative story.

[@ChaosRaych]

Agreed! Based solely on the promo, I thought it was gonna be cringe. But I gave it a chance & I was pleasantly surprised! The Warhammer 40k episode was especially cool

[@cwj2733]

i liked the first 9, the second nine did not impress me.

[@thatparkerkid368]

Lmao so Balatro teaches real poker now? Good luck trying to play a "five of a kind" or a "flush house" in a normal game of poker lol

[@sorryshiina6264]

Nothing to do with video games but the new Superman movie trailer dropping 6 minutes after this video went live just felt right to me.

[@allecazzam8224]

You are a sheep.

[@bloodywolf9760]

Paused the video after reading your comment to watch. The trailer gave me hope.

[@Astaticembrace]

The concept of BL4 having a gun called the Hawk 2A is such a funny bullshit thing lmao

[@Zeroninja-j5c]

lol you spend money everytime you use it. Honestly they should take it out because her rug pull and let her fade into obscurity.

[@selectionn]

@@Zeroninja-j5c you should get a one time lump sum of cash when it drops, but it spawns some enemies because you scammed them with hawk tuah bitcoin.

[@19chambers89]

Hitman already has a gun called the HWK21

[@aussieseal9979]

It doesn’t

[@KimFromTheCrypt]

only if it scams u by using money in addition to your ammo. and the weapon text talks about how its a great investment but you never get anything back

[@Pårchmēntôs]

There’s some really great stuff in Secret Level. Yea, they’re all too short, but that was the whole point I guess. Warhammer 40k, Armored Core, Exodus, and D&D were excellent. PAC-MAN, Unreal Tournament, Honor of Kings, New World, and Mega Man were all good episodes. It’s definitely worth a watch.

[@TheRealCaptainLavender]

My D&D one was cringes fuck. Zero strongale characters. Multicultural dwarf, female orc, and a steroid riddled femme Paladin. Just terrible. The animation is good but the content is fucking garbage.

[@snowstalker36]

They still feel more like trailers for a product than their own story though.

[@o0DnDing0o]

Thanks for delivering the news as always, SkillUp!

[@cementrio]

Little Timmy: "Mother, I've accidentally spent $14000 on lootboxes in this game for children. I borrowed your credit card, and then lost track of how much money I was spending, because I was too focused on chasing the dopamine high of getting a legendary drop." Mom: "Aww, it's okay sweetie. But hopefully you'll learn an important lesson about the value of money." Little Timmy: "Also, I saw a picture of a deck of cards once." Mom: "(sobbing) Our little boy is a gambling addict. Where did we go wrong?"

[@ninjakid450]

Been a pleasure watching these all year long and always look forward to the feel good story in particular. Enjoy your time off and I'll check in in the new year!

[@kanaria-cu3uv]

every time I see a steel series sponsor, all I can think of is the time they made bully hunters

[@MattEffectGames]

It’s a really small thing but I love the fact that Ralph constantly refers to the channel as we rather than “I will not be here to remind you” . Loved seeing Austin get more chance to review things and to see coverage get wider. Good crew

[@gibbersganfa]

Merry Christmas & Happy holidays Ralph & team, and everyone else!

[@josephdixon7229]

Shillup, if xbox only games are going to PS5 and PC, then what's the damn point of buying an XBOX?

[@bandanna2388]

@@josephdixon7229 Gamepass, the controller, superior cloud gaming, one time game purchases shared across systems, and superior backwards compatibility. It’s the most pro consumer console out of the big 3. Btw they’ll still have exclusives, even Staya Nadella and Matt Booty have stated this. It’s always been “case by case” with these ports.

[@Parsley_Thyme]

If you like playing on multiple platforms, I.e. primarily on your console/tv, sometimes switching over to pc, maybe play a little in bed or while on vacation on your phone… Xbox is the only platform where you only have to buy the game 1 time and you can access it and all your progress across all of those platforms.

[@bandanna2388]

@@josephdixon7229 Gamepass, better hardware, better cloud gaming, better backwards compatibility, better controller, more options, overall it’s just way more pro consumer than Nintendo and PlayStation can ever be tbh. On top of that you’ll still get exclusive games, it’s been reiterated time and again that these ports are case by case and that there is no “whole slate” going to PlayStation or Nintendo.

[@TomDaBombadil1]

love to check in on you dude, see how the channel is doing. Started watching with Division 1. And you content ia still AMAZING!!! Well done. You deserve all the success you have had.

[@babytiny5807]

No brainrot humour in BL4 is an absolute blessing. "The Big Succ" fucking years after it was funny was absolutely painful. Memes come and go in a matter of weeks, you cannot put them in a video game that takes 5 years to make without shredding your game's approach to humour. I'll be so happy if we can get decent writing in a BL game this time

[@themilkmanbilly]

Happy holidays, Ralph. Thank you for the videos, I tune in every week. Keep it up and I look forward to watching next year!

[@LowHangingFruitForest]

Funny how Xbox kept saying Nintendo needed to stop selling hardware and be a publisher and now Xbox can’t sell hardware and obviously needs to get out of the publishing business.

[@TheOnlyTaps]

Thanks for the coverage as always 👊🏿

[@enzog1078]

Secret level is awesome. The 3 I’ve seen were short, sweet, beautifully animated, and very fun. The space Marine 2 episode is breathtaking.

[@zacharron]

Thank you Ralph for the weekly gaming videos. It's always a pleasure!

[@shortmage]

The real Xbox was the friends we made along the way 😭

[@AngelCruz-ig2je]

HOLY SHIT! HEROES WAS MENTIONED ❤ ( 4:50 )

[@mitchellkaiser4553]

Love your show shillup! Hope you have a good new year!

[@manynukes11]

I was playing Facebook poker when I was 12 years old and not once have I gambled real money at a casino or online (unless you count MTX).

[@phoenyck]

Have a good Christmas, SkillUp!

[@demarcogivens6459]

I'm not a fan of companies; I'm a fan of my wallet and Microsoft is currently doing the least amount of damage.

[@UnkemptBushell]

I thought that was Gregg Wallace on the thumbnail 💀

[@tequila_tibbs7938]

Never liked greg, glad hes being replaced with a snowplough

[@UnkemptBushell]

@ don’t forget the extra ‘g’. He hates that and won’t retweet you if you miss it (look it up)

[@RileyHell]

I look forward to this series every week. Keep up the good work!

[@s.p.q.r195]

Salutations from a fellow italian (but born in Switzerland, I guess we are everywhere in the world... 🇮🇹). My favorite gaming channel, I can't wait to follow you next year. Merry Christmas and all the best 🎉 Ciao

[@eterickstonely8548]

Secret Level is awesome! Don’t let those reviews convince you before you’ve seen it. Some of the episodes are short, but they have really excellent and dense non-verbal storytelling. I’m so happy that it’s getting a season 2.

[@darshanjayadev]

I'm gonna miss listening to your presentation of gaming news and puns, happy holidays and thank you :')

[@thesean161]

Thanks for a years worth of this week in Videogames :)

[@anwarnaveedali4412]

Your alliterations absolutely astounded and amused me. Amazing!

[@ScotCinamon]

For what it's worth, and while there is alliteration with the "m" sounds after, the "e" sounds before it at 1:34 is actually assonance.

[@RGabrielR]

Happy holidays and have a great break. Thank you for a This Year in Videogames, SkillUp Team!

[@GreyarchVsTheWorld]

Thank you for a wonderful year of TWIVs, Reviews, Previews, and jolly good times. Hope you all enjoy this lovely break, have yourself a merry christmas, and experience a happy new year!

[@sebastiangutierrez336]

Ralph: Game preservation is an absolute good. Devs deserve to have their work recognized and able to be experienced regardless of quality. Also Ralph: Some games deserve to die forever. The devs who worked on them are worthless and they deserve nothing. What an unbelievable hypocrite.

[@jdbladeslicer]

Happy holidays skill up!

[@Zastrutzki]

Thanks SkillUp, another great video to take us into the party weeks!

[@diaxovy]

The worst thing about Balatro having an 18+ PEGI rating is that now anyone living in Europe can't purchase the game from the play store without sending a picture of their ID to google. I would've bought again on moble, since I have it on steam already, but I'm just gonna pirate it then. To be clear its just as much google's fault as it is the rating board's lol

[@Martial-Mat]

Damn there are some fantastically beautiful, whimsical-looking games in the works, and I am all-in for that. I love the art style of Airborne Empire et al.

[@av1dgamer]

Amazing as usual, Sir! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours! Thank you for everything you do!

[@Paraguai123]

@SkillUp Actually, the Squad Buster trailer wasn't on the TGA 2023, it was actually during the Summer Game Awards 2024. But it is a very understandable mistake, since that painful trailer came from Geoff's adopted son that is the SGA.

[@metrodroid]

We need another video game crash like in 1983. "The crash was attributed to several factors, including market saturation in the number of video game consoles and available games, many of which were of poor quality."

[@karl0ssus1]

Apart from the existence of a lot of shit games, the situation is hardly comparable. Cross platform releases are common, the platforms are mostly in different market segments, and unlike the early 80s it's pretty easy to know if a game is worth buying or not because games media is everywhere.

[@EyeGodZA]

Agreed, I feel like we’re a little overdue for one creatively, but fiscally I don’t know if it can happen anymore?

[@slyseal2091]

we're already in an on going crash. That's where all the layoffs are coming from, the covid bubble was the last crutch they had. The """problem""" is just that the market isn't made up entirely of big actors that can drag down the aggregate value of the industry anymore. So rather than the crash radiating outwardly as "nobody is making games anymore" it becomes "indie devs are making more (worthwhile) games than studios". This was also the case in the 80s, but filling the vacuum of production takes a while without internet distribution. It doesn't "look" like a crash because the economic metagame for failing companies is to make it look like they aren't bleeding money, presumably for stock market purposes, Hence the staff downsizing.

[@kamurotetsu4860]

And the result of this was Nintendo who had an almost complete monopoly on the US market, including forcing developers to only make games for the NES/SNES for about a decade, until Sega came along and even then, Nintendo refused to do with business with retailers unless they promoted Nintendo products above Sega. They were ruthless. I don't want another crash, thanks.

[@cwj2733]

it was a flood of japanese and north american entertainment systems, as well as ET

[@MisterK-YT]

Did Sony just become the majority shareholder in Kadokawa right after Ralph dropped this video? They taking a page outta Philip Spencer’s press release scheduling tactics lol.

[@withoutthejuice7193]

It actually blows my mind that the PEGI board thinks learning how to play poker = gambling addiction. I learned how to play poker in middle school and I’ve still never gambled once in my life. Genuine insanity.

[@THELYRICALTMAN]

Just want to say, we all appreciate you Ralph for you ant the teams dedication and steady uploads and news drops. Can't wait to see y'all in 2025nn

[@selectionn]

you know they do this for money right they literally HAVE to do this to eat dinner and pay rent. they would not be doing this if they didnt get a sponsorship every single video.

[@jasonmadinya7759]

jelly and jam are two different preserved fruit products in the US. jelly is made from fruit juice and jam is made from mashed fruit. there's also preserves that uses whole fruits or atleast unmashed fruit.

[@hairycoo]

Thanks for all the fantastic content! Skill Up made 2024 easier to bear.

[@michaelockerby]

Thanks for the news Ralph. Hope you have an awesome Christmas and New Year and make sure you manage to get some rest..... It's already looking like 2025 isn't going to be slowing down with releases for you to give us your recommendations on. Peace and love to all x

[@ratchet2505]

Merry Christmas everyone

[@Jngham.-]

Favourite time of the week!

[@icecoldjohnnyy]

“link below the like button” i got you fam

[@badacid7388]

👏👏👏 well done! Another banger year in the books from your team. Thanks for all of you and your teams work.

[@mrdubtee1873]

A fucking HERO reference Skill Up?! My fucking dood. 10/10 my brother Cheers.

[@rsg-digital]

Thank u SU.... Merry Xmas to ALL!

[@bolicob]

Jam and Jelly and Jell-O are 3 different things. Jam uses whole fruit while jelly uses just the juice. Jell-O is a brand name

[@DyeHard79]

Okay felt compelled to clear up a comment from Skillup here in America....Jelly is made with fruit juice and Jam is made with juice and fruit pulp and Jello is sometimes made with either fruit juice pulp or both but is combined with gelatin powder and is a completely different texture and viscosity ok I'm done great news feed vid as always

[@evergaolbird]

PSO2 have a similar card mini game called "Black Nyak" - its literary Black Jack, but you cannot use real money and convert them to in-game currency the casino uses, the Casino in the game has its exclusive currency you can only use in Casino item exchanges and nothing else (which you can only obtain from Daily Tasks, events and playing the Mini games yourself). Still the western release of the game was rated by PEGI from 16+ to 18+ (Adult Only) cause of the Casino Mini games. Mature 17+ with ESRB. So I'm not surprised that Balatro got the same treatment. But yeah - PSO2 was only given PEGI 16+ at first even with the Skimpy and revealing costumes your character can wear. UPDATE: The Casino Mini Games in PSO2 Global Server has been there since 2019, but PEGI only discovered it this year so they forced SEGA to change the ratings.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Capcom just continues to be fucking awesome. The greatest.

[@kingoverseas9052]

As a Brit I concur with your peanut butter and jam analogy.

[@ICharlyl]

Being an xbox fan means reminiscing of the 360 days

[@jonnymadsen3904]

I appreciate your alliteration

[@ViceroyIcarus]

I will forever refer to the Game Awards as "the Geoffies" going forward

[@godminnette2]

PSA: Vampire Survivors is also currently free on Epic, and will be going away tomorrow! The base game is only $5 but if you haven't picked it up, now's the time.

[@YdenMk-II]

Sadly the whole ratings thing with Balatro is consistent on how they do it in PEGI. I recall reading that the main reason why the game corner never came back was because of fights with the rating board over the slot machines and such there.

[@MysticMothman]

What i think is funny is the game has a 'Gambling' warning on the Xbox store but actual casino & poker games with mtx are considered 'simulated gambling' in the store

[@thedipdipptatochip8077]

@SkillUp Started watching your videos a few months ago. Love what you do mate. You do an awesome job. Just wanted to ask, you were half of the laymen gaming videos no? If that’s okay to ask. Have a good holiday!

[@tmoney142]

Skillup defending the idea of the borderlands hawk tuah gun saying its a good idea just earned him negative 100 respect points from me

[@goowpea666]

30:40 I have never yanked my headphones from my head so quickly. I still haven't lost, tho.

[@alexclay6187]

Haha unnecessary fact, but in the USA we have 3 jam-like products that we separate according to amount of fruit pulp. Preserves have essentially no filtration it is just mashed up whole fruits, jam with some filtration and no whole fruits, and lastly jelly which has zero pulp and is usually transparent.