Did an Extra $10 Kill a Franchise?
2/6/20261 hr 20 min
Welcome back to IGN Game Scoop!, the ONLY video game podcast! This week your Omega Cops -- Daemon Hatfield, Sam Claiborn, Justin Davis, and Peer Schneider -- are discussing Dispatch on Nintendo Switch 2, The Outer Worlds 2, Metroid Prime 4, Cairn, Resident Evil Requiem, The Adventures of Elliot, and more. And, of course, they play Video Game 20 Questions.
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First 90 secondsDaemon Hatfield· Host0:00
[upbeat electronic music] What's up, everybody? Welcome to IGN Game Scoop! I'm your host, Daemon Hatfield, and joining me this week here in studio is Peer Schneider.
Peer Schneider· Panelist0:10
I'm your friend, Peer Schneider.
Daemon Hatfield· Host0:11
We are also joined by Sam Claiborn.
Sam Claiborn· Panelist0:14
I just wanna point out this intro is completely unprompted. [laughing] Unprompted. No prompter.
Daemon Hatfield· Host0:19
[laughing] And Justin Davis.
Justin Davis· Panelist0:20
Scoop.
Daemon Hatfield· Host0:21
And we got a great show for you this week. We've got, um, unfortunate news that a couple of big games recently have underperformed, leaving their future, uh, up in the air. No, that's not true. Actually, we know the future of one of them, and there's not much happening with that one. [laughing] We've also got this- Also, a couple of them- [laughing] ...
Sam Claiborn· Panelist0:34
are both Metroid Prime or Metroid Prime 4, 'cause this came out for Switch One and Switch 2.
Justin Davis· Panelist0:37
Stop it!
Daemon Hatfield· Host0:38
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Sam Claiborn· Panelist0:38
So that's technically a couple of games.
Justin Davis· Panelist0:39
I gotta believe.
Daemon Hatfield· Host0:40
We also had this Nintendo Direct today, which is one of those that could've been an email, but there's still a couple, uh, interesting [laughing] things to- Wow ... talk about. And also, I don't know if you guys heard, but PlayStation is coming for our jobs, so we'll see- ...
Peer Schneider· Panelist0:51
Damn it ...
Daemon Hatfield· Host0:51
we'll see. We'll see about that. But first- I don't stand a chance! [laughing] But first, Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 underperformed, and there won't be a third, which, uh... First of all, if you remember, Obsidian or Outer Worlds 2 won a D.I.C.E. last year.
Peer Schneider· Panelist1:07
Oh.
Daemon Hatfield· Host1:07
It was one of the top five D.I.C.E. games of the year.
Sam Claiborn· Panelist1:09
Okay.
Daemon Hatfield· Host1:10
So it didn't get the D.I.C.E. bump! [laughing] Does the D.I.C.E. bump not mean anything?
Peer Schneider· Panelist1:14
It might... It might cause the opposite.
Daemon Hatfield· Host1:16
[laughing] I don't... It's like- Oh! [laughing] ... the sword of Damocles.
Sam Claiborn· Panelist1:19
[laughing] It's possible that this was a financial decision that was made before the D.I.C.Es, and we always- Yeah ... advise people- Oh, I see ... not to do that.
Daemon Hatfield· Host1:26
That's true.
Sam Claiborn· Panelist1:26
You know, you can shift your fiscal year to actually be at any quarter