In this episode of Digital Coffee Gaming Brew, host Brett Deister discusses a variety of topics including the latest updates and issues in the gaming world. Brett covers the relaunch of Bungie's 'Marathon,' the ongoing hacking problems in 'Star Wars Battlefront 2' on PC, and the latest content updates for 'Schedule One.' The show also pays tribute to William Roberts, the voice actor in 'The Witcher' series, who recently passed away. Additionally, Brett delves into the 2025 Influencer Marketing Report, the new updates for 'Enshrouded,' and the launch of Marvel Rival’s Season Two. Finally, he touches on the impact of tariffs on gaming hardware, particularly the Nintendo Switch 2. Brett encourages listeners to subscribe, leave a five-star review, and to stay updated with the gaming industry's ongoing developments.
🔑 Key Themes- Marathon game update and details.
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 hacking issues.
- Schedule One's first content update.
- Passing of Vesemir's voice actor.
- Influencer gender pay gap controversy.
- Enshrouded game's upcoming updates.
- Impact of tariffs on gaming industry.
- Marathon's Origins: Did you know that "Marathon," which Bungie is redoing, was actually their first game, and it was originally developed for Mac in the 90s? It was basically a Doom clone from back in the day.
- Schedule One's Content Update: The game Schedule One has introduced a new pawn shop feature in its update where players can sell items like a gold watch, paintings, and even a toilet to a character named Mick.
- Enshrouded's Day/Night Cycle: The game "Enshrouded" has a day and night cycle lasting in-game for thirty minutes and twelve minutes in real time, respectively. During the night, players encounter rare enemies like zombies, adding an exciting twist.
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00:00:00 --> 00:00:03 And welcome to a new episode of Digital Coffee
00:00:03 --> 00:00:06 Gaming Brew, and I'm your host, Brett Deister.
00:00:06 --> 00:00:08 If you could please subscribe to this podcast
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00:00:16 --> 00:00:18 But this week we're going to talk about Marathon,
00:00:19 --> 00:00:23 Star Wars Balf... Apparently hacking is terrible
00:00:23 --> 00:00:27 on there. Schedule One is the first content update.
00:00:27 --> 00:00:32 Also an unfortunate... news about the voice actor
00:00:32 --> 00:00:37 of Vesemir in the Witcher video games. Also,
00:00:37 --> 00:00:40 stupid reporter that apparently doesn't read
00:00:40 --> 00:00:45 about the 2025 influencer marketing report and
00:00:45 --> 00:00:50 how it pertains to gaming. We are going to talk
00:00:50 --> 00:00:54 about as well, enshrouded in the new updates,
00:00:55 --> 00:00:59 Marvel Rivals Season 2 is out and a little about
00:00:59 --> 00:01:04 tariffs situation because that just seems interesting
00:01:04 --> 00:01:19 in general so let's get on with the show hmm
00:01:19 --> 00:01:25 that's good all right so marathon the game that
00:01:26 --> 00:01:28 Bungie is redoing because that was actually their
00:01:28 --> 00:01:31 first game on Mac. If you can actually believe
00:01:31 --> 00:01:33 that in the 90s, they actually, their first game
00:01:33 --> 00:01:36 they created was Marathon on Mac. It was basically
00:01:36 --> 00:01:41 a Doom clone, specifically a Doom clone. See,
00:01:41 --> 00:01:43 everything was a Wolfenstein slash Doom clone
00:01:43 --> 00:01:46 back in those days, but it was actually pretty
00:01:46 --> 00:01:49 good and people liked it. It was a pretty good
00:01:49 --> 00:01:54 game for Mac. So they decided to Make the new
00:01:54 --> 00:01:57 game and marathon will not require a PlayStation
00:01:57 --> 00:02:02 Network account to play on peace box Series X
00:02:02 --> 00:02:05 and S but bungee confirms information on their
00:02:05 --> 00:02:08 official Discord server and the requirement for
00:02:08 --> 00:02:12 that only applies to the PlayStation 5 version
00:02:12 --> 00:02:16 of the game so you're welcome that we've bitched
00:02:16 --> 00:02:20 about it so much that bungees and so It's not
00:02:20 --> 00:02:23 really worth the hassle to do this anymore, which
00:02:23 --> 00:02:25 is good because I really don't want to have to
00:02:25 --> 00:02:29 do another game with another account on something
00:02:29 --> 00:02:31 else when I can just play it on Steam, and it's
00:02:31 --> 00:02:36 fine that way. It's just really weird that we
00:02:36 --> 00:02:39 have to do this, but we don't actually have to
00:02:39 --> 00:02:45 do it anymore. All right, moving on to Star Wars
00:02:45 --> 00:02:48 Battlefront 2 and apparently on PC. and only
00:02:48 --> 00:02:51 on PC because it's always fun when hacking goes
00:02:51 --> 00:02:55 on PC. Are reporting that the game's online modes,
00:02:55 --> 00:02:57 particularly Galactic Assault and Supremacy are
00:02:57 --> 00:03:01 compatible due to hacking. The hack prevents
00:03:01 --> 00:03:04 players from spawning in matches, affecting all
00:03:04 --> 00:03:07 40 player modes. Complaints about hackers in
00:03:07 --> 00:03:08 Battlefront 2 have been going on for months.
00:03:09 --> 00:03:12 or years with a specific hacker known as blix
00:03:12 --> 00:03:15 taunting players the current hack has been updated
00:03:15 --> 00:03:19 to auto load in every match or difficult for
00:03:19 --> 00:03:22 players to find unaffected games some players
00:03:22 --> 00:03:26 report that hackers are posing posting inappropriate
00:03:26 --> 00:03:30 messages in chat impersonating ea admin accounts
00:03:30 --> 00:03:33 previous hacks have also also disrupted gameplay
00:03:33 --> 00:03:39 such as one in 2022 that made characters The
00:03:39 --> 00:03:41 EA forms are filled with complaints in the current
00:03:41 --> 00:03:44 situation, but there has been no response from
00:03:44 --> 00:03:49 EA as of the article's publication. IGN has reached
00:03:49 --> 00:03:52 out as the publication found they have reached
00:03:52 --> 00:03:55 out for comment and console players are reportedly
00:03:55 --> 00:03:58 unaffected by these hacks. This is the downside
00:03:58 --> 00:04:01 of PC is that we actually have to deal with this
00:04:01 --> 00:04:04 and it's not really very fun to deal with this
00:04:04 --> 00:04:10 in general, but Unfortunately, that's just how
00:04:10 --> 00:04:13 the state of it is. It really is unfortunate.
00:04:13 --> 00:04:16 I do hate hackers in general, and this just makes
00:04:16 --> 00:04:20 it all deals and carries having fun, ruining
00:04:20 --> 00:04:23 your fun. So you might as well just play new
00:04:23 --> 00:04:26 games or a different game. I know just play the
00:04:26 --> 00:04:29 battlefront classic games. Probably the best
00:04:29 --> 00:04:32 ones to play right now until he actually responds
00:04:32 --> 00:04:34 and does something about it. But if they're not
00:04:34 --> 00:04:41 going to do anything about it, which is Unless
00:04:41 --> 00:04:43 they figure out a way of doing private servers
00:04:43 --> 00:04:48 and making sure that actual admins kick these
00:04:48 --> 00:04:50 people out because they're not going to do anything
00:04:50 --> 00:04:54 against him. He has free will and free reign
00:04:54 --> 00:04:58 to do whatever he wants. He's doing it to the
00:04:58 --> 00:05:01 full extent because he knows that EA will do
00:05:01 --> 00:05:04 absolutely nothing because they are focused on
00:05:04 --> 00:05:07 Battlefield 6, they do not care about battlefront
00:05:07 --> 00:05:11 2 anymore. And those that enjoy playing it sucks.
00:05:12 --> 00:05:15 Maybe play the original battlefront if you can.
00:05:16 --> 00:05:19 This alternative or play the classic ones that
00:05:19 --> 00:05:21 are remastered is probably your other way of
00:05:21 --> 00:05:25 going. But anything beyond that. Not really going
00:05:25 --> 00:05:31 to work very well. All right, so schedule one
00:05:31 --> 00:05:34 is going to have its first content update or
00:05:34 --> 00:05:38 did actually. April 10th, the update introduces
00:05:38 --> 00:05:41 a new pawn shop where players can sell various
00:05:41 --> 00:05:46 items to a character named Mick. Because, well,
00:05:47 --> 00:05:50 that's what it is right now. The update includes
00:05:50 --> 00:05:52 new items such as a gold watch, six paintings
00:05:52 --> 00:05:56 and a toilet, as well as improvements like. are
00:05:56 --> 00:06:01 stack size and enhanced meeting icons in the
00:06:01 --> 00:06:05 map app players using the beta branch of this
00:06:05 --> 00:06:07 game can access the new features instructions
00:06:07 --> 00:06:12 for access the beta branch are provided the developers
00:06:12 --> 00:06:15 developer which is just really one mentions that
00:06:15 --> 00:06:19 future parties include fixing bugs, ensuring
00:06:19 --> 00:06:22 employee reliability, improving save files integrity
00:06:22 --> 00:06:25 with assistance from Valve. And the game remains
00:06:25 --> 00:06:28 the top selling title on Steam two weeks after
00:06:28 --> 00:06:32 launch, which really goes to show that unfortunately
00:06:32 --> 00:06:36 for drug dealers going well for you, because
00:06:36 --> 00:06:40 I know you're looking into see if there's any
00:06:40 --> 00:06:43 actual wrongdoing or copyright infringements,
00:06:43 --> 00:06:45 but probably sure it's not going to be much.
00:06:45 --> 00:06:48 even though things look the same it doesn't actually
00:06:48 --> 00:06:54 mean that it's going to be that way so that's
00:06:54 --> 00:07:00 where we're at but it is one of those things
00:07:00 --> 00:07:05 where it it's fine it's fine i'm pretty sure
00:07:05 --> 00:07:08 that developer is going to be doing really well
00:07:08 --> 00:07:11 which it's not but this is actually good news
00:07:11 --> 00:07:15 because playing the game when you do have Extra
00:07:15 --> 00:07:17 things you actually just have to discard them
00:07:17 --> 00:07:19 and it's nice that you can actually sell them
00:07:19 --> 00:07:23 back for money. So I'm happy about that because
00:07:23 --> 00:07:28 Really just needs to sell them for good money
00:07:28 --> 00:07:30 get some some of the money back that you actually
00:07:30 --> 00:07:34 spent Can actually upgrade equipment, you know
00:07:34 --> 00:07:36 to discard it all the time because that was the
00:07:36 --> 00:07:38 only way of doing it So I like this update. This
00:07:38 --> 00:07:40 is actually pretty good. If you have not played
00:07:40 --> 00:07:43 schedule one, I highly recommend it. This is
00:07:43 --> 00:07:49 actually really fun All right, moving on to William
00:07:49 --> 00:07:53 Roberts, the voice actor, Vesemir in CD Projekt
00:07:53 --> 00:07:56 Red's Witcher. Video games has died at the age
00:07:56 --> 00:07:59 of 80. His death was first reported by The Guardian
00:07:59 --> 00:08:02 in February, an obituary written by his former
00:08:02 --> 00:08:05 wife, Nicolette Roberts. Roberts was born in
00:08:05 --> 00:08:08 Oregon and built his career in Britain as an
00:08:08 --> 00:08:12 actor, director, voice artist, and writer. programs
00:08:12 --> 00:08:15 narrated audiobooks from the Royal National Institute
00:08:15 --> 00:08:17 of Blind People and other companies and acted
00:08:17 --> 00:08:20 in radio productions such as Batman and Judge
00:08:20 --> 00:08:23 Dread. He appeared in numerous video games including
00:08:23 --> 00:08:26 Time Splitter 2, Crisis, Age of Kodan, Battlefield
00:08:26 --> 00:08:30 Bad Company, Killzone 2, Sniper Elite, Diponia,
00:08:31 --> 00:08:35 Star Wars Battlefront, Horizon Zero Dawn, A Way
00:08:35 --> 00:08:38 Out, The Medium, and Atomic Heart. Wow, he did
00:08:38 --> 00:08:42 a lot of really big video games besides The Witcher.
00:08:43 --> 00:08:46 Vesemir, his most recognized role, is Garret's
00:08:46 --> 00:08:50 mentor in The Witcher series. Roberts was known
00:08:50 --> 00:08:54 for his insensitive reading of works by authors
00:08:54 --> 00:09:00 like Melville, Poe, and Lovecraft. In 1980, 80s
00:09:00 --> 00:09:04 he voiced a Texas Tom and ads on for Texas home
00:09:04 --> 00:09:08 care DIY stores. He trained as a pilot later
00:09:08 --> 00:09:12 in his life and biography under the name Wee
00:09:12 --> 00:09:16 Roberts. So it's unfortunate, but he did live
00:09:16 --> 00:09:19 a long life, but yeah, no more voice actor for
00:09:19 --> 00:09:24 Vesemir. He is no longer with us. And as always,
00:09:24 --> 00:09:26 thoughts and prayers go out to his family because
00:09:26 --> 00:09:29 it's always a difficult time when you lose. of
00:09:29 --> 00:09:34 how old they are it's still rough All right moving
00:09:34 --> 00:09:39 on to apparently game biz industry decided that
00:09:39 --> 00:09:43 they needed to talk about the 2025 influencer
00:09:43 --> 00:09:49 marketing report they claim that there is a pay
00:09:49 --> 00:09:54 male and female influencers and that it's terrible
00:09:54 --> 00:09:57 because we're in 2025 and the pay gap exists
00:09:57 --> 00:10:02 not just For any reason just that it's just males
00:10:02 --> 00:10:05 are worse because we get paid more but actually
00:10:05 --> 00:10:10 it's not it's basically because It's like a 40
00:10:10 --> 00:10:19 % Pay cut or pay gap between female male Influencers,
00:10:19 --> 00:10:24 but there are possible reasons for this one is
00:10:24 --> 00:10:29 the buns of female creators because it is female
00:10:29 --> 00:10:34 creators to like a 28 % male creators. So you
00:10:34 --> 00:10:38 have a ton of female creators out there that
00:10:38 --> 00:10:40 could be, I don't know, driving down the price
00:10:40 --> 00:10:44 a little bit. And especially as the micro influencer
00:10:44 --> 00:10:48 levels results in price, prices influence female
00:10:48 --> 00:10:51 and down compared to their male counterparts,
00:10:52 --> 00:10:55 which they're being less males than female influencers.
00:10:55 --> 00:10:59 The males naturally command a higher asking price
00:10:59 --> 00:11:03 due to limited supply. So supply and demand to
00:11:03 --> 00:11:05 price. Also, it's because that males actually
00:11:05 --> 00:11:09 focus on their niche and females for stuff like
00:11:09 --> 00:11:12 beauty and all that other stuff. So there are
00:11:12 --> 00:11:15 actual reasons for this. It's just that he decided
00:11:15 --> 00:11:19 to leave it out because males are bad for getting
00:11:19 --> 00:11:23 more money than females are. 72 % of the mark
00:11:23 --> 00:11:30 of influencer marketing is females. Yeah. I just
00:11:30 --> 00:11:32 don't understand. I get that you're reporting
00:11:32 --> 00:11:35 this and it's interesting and important, but
00:11:35 --> 00:11:37 it's just one of those things where it's, I don't
00:11:37 --> 00:11:40 really need to know that. I don't really care
00:11:40 --> 00:11:43 about your opinions about this and saying that
00:11:43 --> 00:11:47 always mail. Well, blah, blah, blah, blah. Also,
00:11:47 --> 00:11:53 if you look in the breakdown, most marketers
00:11:53 --> 00:11:56 use Instagram or TikTok because it gives the
00:11:56 --> 00:11:58 better. price point, but if you want more money,
00:11:58 --> 00:12:03 you use YouTube. And so there is that type of
00:12:03 --> 00:12:08 thing. Plus the pay $83. It's not a lot. I know
00:12:08 --> 00:12:11 it's 40 % or something like that, but when you
00:12:11 --> 00:12:15 actually look at the money wise, it's $83. So
00:12:15 --> 00:12:19 we're, it's not a whole lot. It's just weird
00:12:19 --> 00:12:25 in 2025, we have to have this and care about
00:12:25 --> 00:12:32 the gender pay gap because the first time people
00:12:32 --> 00:12:34 were like, Oh, it's terrible because of this.
00:12:35 --> 00:12:37 And there are actually factors. Males work in
00:12:37 --> 00:12:43 more high or highly dangerous job. Well, females
00:12:43 --> 00:12:45 take more time off than males do. Males tend
00:12:45 --> 00:12:50 to work longer. Females will maybe not in my
00:12:50 --> 00:12:54 generation or the generation after me will actually
00:12:54 --> 00:12:56 get have babies, have families and stuff. So
00:12:56 --> 00:12:59 they'll take more time off for that. That's usually
00:12:59 --> 00:13:05 the reason for it, but people have to not care
00:13:05 --> 00:13:07 about the actual stats and care about agenda
00:13:07 --> 00:13:10 pushing. And this is another one. So when you
00:13:10 --> 00:13:12 see that report out there, it's not, they're
00:13:12 --> 00:13:14 not really telling you the truth until you actually
00:13:14 --> 00:13:17 read through it. And I had to, it's a long article
00:13:17 --> 00:13:19 and it's very interesting, but I had to go down
00:13:19 --> 00:13:23 through this one blurb about gay, even in the
00:13:23 --> 00:13:26 top 10 most popular. niches. Technology is, which
00:13:26 --> 00:13:31 could be gaming too, but technology is a really
00:13:31 --> 00:13:37 big swath of consumer tech, gaming, VR, and a
00:13:37 --> 00:13:42 bunch of other stuff, AI. Also, it pays to be
00:13:42 --> 00:13:44 gay apparently because the highest paid niches
00:13:44 --> 00:13:52 is LGBTQ plus is $316 .78 per collaboration.
00:13:53 --> 00:13:56 Then it's comedy, then it's vegan, then it's
00:13:56 --> 00:14:02 family and children. Athletics. Yeah. Base to
00:14:02 --> 00:14:06 be gay. You're also looking for the platform
00:14:06 --> 00:14:10 pricing trends. YouTube is the highest at $675.
00:14:11 --> 00:14:20 So. Just so you know. Anyways. Two in shrouded
00:14:20 --> 00:14:24 and the thralls of Twilight will launch in May
00:14:24 --> 00:14:26 the game has reached a milestone of four million
00:14:26 --> 00:14:29 players the update will introduce new gameplay
00:14:29 --> 00:14:33 mechanics including weapon mods Jim Jim crafting
00:14:33 --> 00:14:37 and deconstruction new weapon and combat balanced
00:14:37 --> 00:14:40 This update new enemies will be added. Although
00:14:40 --> 00:14:42 specific details about these enemies were not
00:14:42 --> 00:14:45 provided in shrouded features a day and night
00:14:45 --> 00:14:50 cycle lasting about 30 minutes and to 12 minutes
00:14:50 --> 00:14:54 in real time respectively. At night players can
00:14:54 --> 00:14:56 catch fireflies and counter rare enemies like
00:14:56 --> 00:15:01 zombies. And the update and the upcoming update
00:15:01 --> 00:15:04 will provide players with a new reason to explore
00:15:04 --> 00:15:07 during nighttime through specific details were
00:15:07 --> 00:15:10 not disclosed yet. So developer in shrouded is
00:15:10 --> 00:15:13 still creating the game. It's still very Probably
00:15:13 --> 00:15:16 a game in its own right. It's still an early
00:15:16 --> 00:15:19 access. It's still a fun game Game that you can
00:15:19 --> 00:15:22 play with friends or by yourself, which is great
00:15:22 --> 00:15:23 because you don't have to worry about people
00:15:23 --> 00:15:26 like Stealing your stuff and then you have to
00:15:26 --> 00:15:28 start over again, which is nice You don't have
00:15:28 --> 00:15:30 to worry about that too much so you can play
00:15:30 --> 00:15:33 by yourself. So it's got a nice blend It's not
00:15:33 --> 00:15:36 like rust where rust was kind of like you're
00:15:36 --> 00:15:42 with everybody Now you really have to figure
00:15:42 --> 00:15:46 out what you're gonna do with everybody there
00:15:46 --> 00:15:52 So moving on to Marvel Rivals season 2 it is
00:15:52 --> 00:15:55 out right now and the new tank hero is Emma Frost
00:15:55 --> 00:16:01 she is a Brawler so she has a she has two forms,
00:16:01 --> 00:16:06 which is like Rematra from overwatch 2 and a
00:16:06 --> 00:16:11 rare form abilities like psych spear mine I guess
00:16:11 --> 00:16:14 and diamond form which includes carbon crush
00:16:14 --> 00:16:18 and crystal kick her diamond form and enemies
00:16:18 --> 00:16:22 interrupt their ultimate abilities now frost
00:16:22 --> 00:16:25 abilities allow her to shift between mid -range
00:16:25 --> 00:16:27 and close -range combat effectively the developers
00:16:27 --> 00:16:30 priority to is to ensure players have fun even
00:16:30 --> 00:16:32 if it leads to balance issues with characters
00:16:32 --> 00:16:41 and A whole bunch of reworking on the hero team
00:16:41 --> 00:16:45 ups as well. So it looks like Scarlet Witch and
00:16:45 --> 00:16:47 Doctor Strange are gonna have a hero team up.
00:16:47 --> 00:16:52 It looks like Hulk and Namor and or Iron Man
00:16:52 --> 00:16:54 are gonna be those types of things as well. It
00:16:54 --> 00:16:57 looks like Captain. You're gonna have a team
00:16:57 --> 00:17:00 up and it's gonna be lost with rocket rocket
00:17:00 --> 00:17:02 and Punisher still gonna be the same thing So
00:17:02 --> 00:17:04 it looks like they're rebalancing it making more
00:17:04 --> 00:17:07 interesting which I'm in favor of to Rebalance
00:17:07 --> 00:17:10 and try to do different hero team ups and it
00:17:10 --> 00:17:12 just keeps it fresh and more interesting It's
00:17:12 --> 00:17:15 still better than overwatch 2 but overwatch 2
00:17:15 --> 00:17:18 is getting better hero perks and eventually the
00:17:18 --> 00:17:24 stadium coming out But we will see once It's
00:17:24 --> 00:17:26 already from overwatch 2 because overwatch 2
00:17:26 --> 00:17:30 has to deal with Marvel rivals because they're
00:17:30 --> 00:17:34 just doing so much better at What overwatch 2
00:17:34 --> 00:17:37 should have done better? I've really use 6v6
00:17:37 --> 00:17:40 6v6 is the best thing for it and it should have
00:17:40 --> 00:17:45 never left that All right moving on into the
00:17:45 --> 00:17:49 switch I know I don't talk about console too
00:17:49 --> 00:17:52 much the GPU market and just the market in general
00:17:52 --> 00:17:57 with the tariffs. So tariffs are about 145 %
00:17:57 --> 00:18:00 now for China, because China is the special one
00:18:00 --> 00:18:03 that gets the tariffs because they, they don't
00:18:03 --> 00:18:05 really care about the United States too much.
00:18:05 --> 00:18:08 They do and they don't. Then Nintendo has been
00:18:08 --> 00:18:13 a lot hot water because now the switch to door
00:18:13 --> 00:18:16 is on hold indefinitely because of the tariffs.
00:18:17 --> 00:18:19 Also, their games are going to cost $80 for digital
00:18:19 --> 00:18:22 and $90 for physical for whatever reason, because
00:18:22 --> 00:18:25 the physical ones also might just carry a key.
00:18:25 --> 00:18:27 So it doesn't really matter if you're not getting
00:18:27 --> 00:18:31 any game files on there. So there's that. And
00:18:31 --> 00:18:34 there's a price hike on from the Switch to the
00:18:34 --> 00:18:38 Switch 2. It seems like a lot of the Switch 2
00:18:38 --> 00:18:40 features are locked behind their subscription
00:18:40 --> 00:18:44 paywall, which really is annoying the voice chat
00:18:44 --> 00:18:45 you can't do it unless you have a subscription
00:18:45 --> 00:18:49 video chat as well but who really cares about
00:18:49 --> 00:18:54 all that stuff you also have there's some nice
00:18:54 --> 00:18:56 features but it's not really wanting me to buy
00:18:56 --> 00:18:59 it plus with just how expensive the games are
00:18:59 --> 00:19:01 going to be what's the point of getting a game
00:19:01 --> 00:19:04 where i can just get a steam deck which i'll
00:19:04 --> 00:19:06 bet might be more expensive but it also offers
00:19:06 --> 00:19:09 me a lot more functionality features i can turn
00:19:09 --> 00:19:13 my steam Next desktop I can use it as a desktop
00:19:13 --> 00:19:16 can't do that with a switch switch is just whatever
00:19:16 --> 00:19:21 they give you plus with their Switch to welcome
00:19:21 --> 00:19:25 game. That's $10 weird Which leads me to the
00:19:25 --> 00:19:28 high -performance GPUs in Taiwan. So it looks
00:19:28 --> 00:19:34 like they can circumvent ship it from China or
00:19:34 --> 00:19:37 Mexico, and then they filter it back up through
00:19:37 --> 00:19:39 the United States. This is the only way they
00:19:39 --> 00:19:41 can keep the prices down, because if they don't,
00:19:41 --> 00:19:45 they'll have to raise prices too much. We also
00:19:45 --> 00:19:49 have the issue with peripherals, because the
00:19:49 --> 00:19:52 majority of peripherals are in China. I've worked
00:19:52 --> 00:19:54 with two different ones, and I know exactly how
00:19:54 --> 00:19:58 it is. They mostly innovate the designs and everything
00:19:58 --> 00:20:03 through Taiwan, have a factory in China. Usually
00:20:03 --> 00:20:04 Shanghai. I think it's probably the one that
00:20:04 --> 00:20:10 actually do it in and then To the United States
00:20:10 --> 00:20:13 usually how it is Usually the person that has
00:20:13 --> 00:20:15 a warehouse of the company that has the warehouse
00:20:15 --> 00:20:18 will steal the tech and reuse the tech and there's
00:20:18 --> 00:20:20 nothing you can do about it They've been stealing
00:20:20 --> 00:20:24 our IPs for quite a while including the technology
00:20:24 --> 00:20:29 stuff. I'm pretty sure gaming is no So the The
00:20:29 --> 00:20:33 problem is that for gaming, they have to now
00:20:33 --> 00:20:35 figure out where they're going to go. Vietnam,
00:20:35 --> 00:20:39 if they make a deal with the United States, Malaysia,
00:20:39 --> 00:20:43 or bite the bullet, figure out how to make it
00:20:43 --> 00:20:48 in the United States. And in the process, make
00:20:48 --> 00:20:51 the production cheaper as much as you can through
00:20:51 --> 00:20:55 automation. And then that way you can localize.
00:20:56 --> 00:20:58 your product distribution within the United States.
00:20:58 --> 00:21:00 And you don't have to worry about what we went
00:21:00 --> 00:21:05 through COVID and everything else with just a
00:21:05 --> 00:21:07 string of holes from China saying, we want a
00:21:07 --> 00:21:11 lot of stuff to you. And now with China actually
00:21:11 --> 00:21:14 saying we're going to withhold rare minerals,
00:21:15 --> 00:21:19 that puts a squeeze on the tech sector even more.
00:21:19 --> 00:21:23 It may not actually hit the keyboards. But we're
00:21:23 --> 00:21:25 all going to fill it eventually. It's why Apple
00:21:25 --> 00:21:30 decided to fly five plane loads of iPhones to
00:21:30 --> 00:21:32 the United States. When this was happening, it's
00:21:32 --> 00:21:36 why a lot of other Amazon canceled a lot of Chinese
00:21:36 --> 00:21:41 specific products. And this isn't going to really
00:21:41 --> 00:21:43 resolve itself until China and United States
00:21:43 --> 00:21:48 actually come to a mutual deal, which favor of
00:21:48 --> 00:21:51 because they've been screwing us over for decades.
00:21:51 --> 00:21:54 They've been screwing us over, they've been making
00:21:54 --> 00:21:56 cheap products, they've been destroying our industries,
00:21:57 --> 00:22:00 and they've been stealing our tech. China doesn't
00:22:00 --> 00:22:02 make anything. China doesn't innovate anything.
00:22:02 --> 00:22:04 So this whole thing about they made an alternative
00:22:04 --> 00:22:09 HDMI that is amazing is probably not true because
00:22:09 --> 00:22:14 they did that with their AI system and it turns
00:22:14 --> 00:22:16 out that it really wasn't that efficient and
00:22:16 --> 00:22:19 they spent a bunch of money trying to get the
00:22:19 --> 00:22:23 GPUs and so It became one of these things where
00:22:23 --> 00:22:30 really it's not that. So we're in this pickle
00:22:30 --> 00:22:33 right now. We have to figure out how to get out
00:22:33 --> 00:22:38 of this. And the only way to really strangle
00:22:38 --> 00:22:41 hold China and make sure that they're not stealing
00:22:41 --> 00:22:43 our tech anymore is to go to the other countries
00:22:43 --> 00:22:47 and produce it in Vietnam, Malaysia. It's like
00:22:47 --> 00:22:49 I said before, you're not going to get around
00:22:49 --> 00:22:52 this. There are probably going to be a lot of
00:22:52 --> 00:22:54 tariffs on China for the foreseeable future because
00:22:54 --> 00:22:56 they're going to fight this in the United States.
00:22:57 --> 00:22:59 I don't think it's going to balk anytime soon.
00:22:59 --> 00:23:01 It could be four years. It could be two years.
00:23:01 --> 00:23:06 It could be even longer, but we're now in a trade
00:23:06 --> 00:23:10 war. So that means that you can't really produce
00:23:10 --> 00:23:13 all the cheap stuff, cheap tech stuff in China
00:23:13 --> 00:23:17 anymore, unless you want to incur the cost. or
00:23:17 --> 00:23:20 put the cost to the customer. And so that's going
00:23:20 --> 00:23:23 to make the marketers go, oh gosh, how are we
00:23:23 --> 00:23:26 going to creatively figure out how to save things?
00:23:27 --> 00:23:30 Like we're not really raising prices. And so
00:23:30 --> 00:23:32 we'll just add new quote unquote tech features
00:23:32 --> 00:23:36 to our product line to make it look like we've
00:23:36 --> 00:23:38 added more features. We really haven't. It's
00:23:38 --> 00:23:42 just the tariffs or just a minute saying, you're
00:23:42 --> 00:23:45 going to have to eat the costs because we're
00:23:45 --> 00:23:51 not going to. So we have issues with Nintendo
00:23:51 --> 00:23:55 and what they're doing. We have issues with peripherals
00:23:55 --> 00:23:57 and what they're doing. And so this is going
00:23:57 --> 00:24:00 to be a very interesting time to see what is
00:24:00 --> 00:24:03 actually going to happen. And it's going to be
00:24:03 --> 00:24:08 expensive. So I would be prepared. You can buy
00:24:08 --> 00:24:14 now and then wait a couple of years and you may
00:24:14 --> 00:24:16 be able to, you may be able to actually get something.
00:24:18 --> 00:24:21 But this were right now. So with that this is
00:24:21 --> 00:24:24 the end of digital coffee gaming brew. I really
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