 Alright guys, welcome to the WAN show. Not the most organized one that we've ever started. I didn't even do my hair or change my shirt. And you're like wearing a firefighter shirt, which is of course the best Linus Tech Tips shirt of all. You're wearing a... I know, I know. We both failed. We're both bad people. And this is a bad show. As long as we're equally terrible. I actually think it's a fantastic show. It's a great show. We have tons of stuff for you guys this week. We actually say that every week, but we do have a ton of stuff this week. He was just at E3, which is the adult entertainment expo. Adult? Adult? No? Oh, oh. Adult. I pretended to misunderstand. And also not know how adult was spelled. Which is funny because... Wow. How was the trip? It was... Am I going through everything? No. Yeah, no, I don't care. It was actually pretty good. The most surprising thing was that E3 is like not a press only event. Like, nope, not at all. They have signs all over the place. Like, oh, press only event, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then the lineup for Will Call for people that bought their tickets was the longest one. You know, it's funny because it's like CES where it's industry, blah, blah, blah, only. And you walk around and like most of the people there are just off the street. Yeah, but there was actually a considerable amount of people that just bought their ticket. You know how at like CES you had to like at least be friends with someone? Yeah. It's like, no, you could just straight up buy your ticket. And a lot of people did it. Like there was some mom and her like 12 year old kid that were just walking around. He's probably like a prodigy game dev. Yeah. That was... Yeah, that was weird. And like at PAX East, when we went to Oculus, I was able to walk up and be like, hey, we're press. Can we get a, can we get something? And they were like, well, we don't have any interview, like time slots open, but we can sit you down and run you through all the different demos and have a guy talk to you, but he just can't be on camera. We're like, okay, cool. E3, walk up and they're like, no press stuff. Wait in line. It's like this is a supposed to be a press only event and you have no press stuff. So I had to wait in line multiple times because I couldn't even like hop systems to try all the different games and stuff. But then it ended up being awesome because I was able to like find Palmer in the booth and be like, Hey, can we get an interview? So we ended up getting like one of the best interviews at E3. That's fantastic. For Oculus just randomly, which was great. You guys have fun overall? It was good. There was, there was stuff that we don't have time to talk about, which... Are you releasing the blog video of the hotel? I don't know. It's, it's, we're, we're not sure, but I have footage and I might show it off on the after party. I get a kick out of all the people being like, there's no video because I actually have a preview of the stream running on my computer right now. So... If there is no video, then that's... Yeah. I think it's on your side. All right. So why don't we jump right into our, our hot topics of the day. So I've got two hot topics for you that are sort of related. GTA five is coming to the PC and Dead Rising three is coming to the PC. I mean, that's, it's good that, that an exclusive franchise is moving to PC, but we, well, we have more to tell you later about why this is just the completest epic fail that it, well, okay. It could have been worse. I don't know how much worse it could be. Okay. You go, you go ahead. You give some topics that we're going to talk about today. Next next next generation consoles are probably coming faster than we expected. And that's not surprising because the current ones are really not that strong or good at all. Instead of calling them next gen, can we be like shampoo and call them new and improved gen? Next, new next gen console. Yeah. Like the, like the, the Nintendo thing. And then the next one can be new and improved next gen. And then after that, it can be like redesigned packaging, which they already do. You know, we'll have like a modern warfare skin on the console or whatever. Like they should just completely rip off shampoo. Just do it that way. New and enhanced formula. And then we have the Maglev keyboard because magnets, yo. Magnets dog. All right. So without further ado, here is the, uh, okay. I'll just press it. This is great. Someone's like now with 30% more gen. Oh, I love it. All right. So our sponsors for the show today. Yes. Highlander is coming. This will be the world's highest altitude terrestrial land party. We are collaborating with Austin Evans. We are collaborating with, uh, actually TLD today and tech of tomorrow are as far as I know, a hundred percent coming. Paul and Kyle from new egg might be coming. That's mostly confirmed as well. Logan from tech syndicate and Linus tech tips are putting on this event and it is going to be bananas. Expect some great content to come out of this. And it is powered by our generous, generous sponsors, a Sue's featuring their new ROJ, see you got me going. ROJ Z, their new ROG series notebook as well as Intel and Corsair. So this is going to be a lot of, a lot of fun. Also we, uh, we owe our three sponsors one more, one more sponsor spot here. So, um, actually, I mean, this is the timing is not bad. The next week thing isn't that great because it's not next week. It was actually this week, but we're going to be doing a ton of E3 recap and I just want to thank our sponsors HyperX and CIX and wow, I'm blanking. Thank you. And Corsair for sending Luke there. So he's the one who's been saying that all week. Whereas I've been focused on Highlander and the fact that there's some overlap between them. What am I doing? Yeah, no, that was awesome. We actually have a Nintendo recap video of like all of the games that are coming out in terms of Wii U. Is Nintendo getting their mojo back? Why don't we make that our first topic? Let's go. Go. Go. It was, it was E3 2014 was Nintendo's year. Okay. Like a hundred percent. You walk into one of the halls, you see a gigantic Nintendo banner. You see completely vacant booths and then you see no walking space at all around the Nintendo area because it's full. The press area was completely full. There was lineup queues to try every single like little station and the non press area was even more full. The, the invitational stream was insane. There was a hundred thousand people watching the Smash Bros. Invitational before they started playing. Like people care. They had, they had a Best Buy's around the world had Smash Bros. And people were able to go play. And there was pictures of Best Buy's where there was a lineup all the way around the Best Buy and then down the street just to be able to play. So for all the doom and gloom around Nintendo and they are still losing money. Yep. Are they at least recapturing their mojo? I think they're recapturing their mojo. They have, they have stuff like Smash Bros. coming which should have been here already. They got Zelda coming. They have that new Zelda announcement which looks amazing and that should have been here already. There's a lot of stuff that should have been here already. Let's just make this the Nintendo, the Nintendo segment. So let's go through all of our Nintendo stuff. So, so go ahead. Give us your thoughts. Then we'll jump into that. Nintendo has already apparently actually no, we'll move on. Okay. Whatever. Talk about Nintendo and then I'll jump in with other stuff. They have, they have, in the video that's coming in like 18 minutes, they have I think 11 different games. Like really big, very important, very well polished games that they could probably release today because they're all playable there. Right. And totally smooth, no problems, fully playable. That were just amazing. And stuff, stuff from Yoshi, Toad, Mario, like main Mario sequence games. The Mario Maker game looks amazing. And I got to play with it there and it was really good. Hyrule Warriors is polished and really fun. The Zelda game looks amazing. All of these big titles that probably should have come earlier. But I think it's going to be okay. The hype around Nintendo 83 was insane. Like the PlayStation and Xbox stuff was fairly populated and stuff that you would expect to be populated like Borderlands and like Far Cry. There was a fairly large lineup, but the lineup to play and to get like hands on interaction with Far Cry and Assassin's Creed and like Borderlands, these big titles were not as big and not as engaged as anything at Nintendo. Including like, I can't even remember what it's called right now, but some squid game where you like run around and paint things. But it was tons of fun. It's, it looked super stupid, but it's, it's called Turf War. Yeah. And you just run around with these paint guns and you have to like cover all the ground and paint and it's an FPS at the same time. So you're covering your ground and paint to gain points and whoever has the most ground covered in their color of paint at the end wins, but you can kill the other guys and then they get a respawn timer and they respond in the back of their base. That sounds like a lot of fun. It was actually, it was really competitive despite how like kind of casual, filthy casual. Totally filthy casual, but it was super competitive and there was, that was one of the most lined up for games. Splatoon. That's what it was called. Thanks Nick. Yeah. Thanks Nick. It's called Splatoon, but that was, that was actually so much fun and that I had never even heard of that before. And that was, that was awesome. So there's, I don't know. I'm scared. Okay. What's your, what's your highlight from Nintendo? Oh, Smash Bros. Smash Bros was amazing. Smash Bros. Okay. And that's super boring. But it was amazing. Now, neither of the people in this room gives any cares about this because neither of us ever owned a GameCube, GameCube, did we? No, but I got to play with both and I got to talk to multiple people that were in the Smash Bros Invitational about Smash Bros. So I have feedback on Smash Bros and the GameCube controller and stuff. I asked the guy who won the Invitational who was playing with me, which is super cool. That's cool. Yeah. I won. Shut up. Did he let you win because he was a nice guy? There was, no, there was two guys from the Invitational and a like fairly high end on the competitive side, employee of Nintendo for Smash Bros and then me and we were all playing and the employee of Nintendo picked a super overpowered character and the two Invitational guys were trying to fight him off because he had a super overpowered character and I was Kirby. So I did that like you turn into a rock and smash thing and I got multiple kills that way and then they weren't trying to focus me. But because they were focusing someone else, I took advantage of it. Nice. Fantastic. Nice. But yeah, the GameCube controller and I got to try it. You haven't actually told anyone what we're talking about. So Nintendo is releasing a GameCube controller adapter for the Wii U that will allow you to plug in four GameCube controllers. I think, okay, a couple of things. Number one is why the hell hasn't everyone been doing this all along? Why can't I use an Xbox 360 controller on the Xbox one if I'd like it better? Microsoft, what's your problem? Like what is the problem with carrying forward and back compatibility on controllers? It's an artificially imposed limitation a lot of the time and it just doesn't make any sense. And you know what? Even though Nintendo legitimately, justifiably can't use GameCube controllers on the Wii U, they are allowing it to happen. They are facilitating it and they're making it reasonable. 20 bucks. 20 bucks. 20 bucks. It's really not even that bad. I mean, we're talking about the price delta between a current gen controller and a last gen controller and you're getting the adapter to use as many last gen controllers as you want. I mean, that is such a customer friendly thing to do. Just go look, yeah, okay, you don't like classic controller. You don't like pro controller. You want to use what you're familiar with, what you like. Yes, let's give it to you. Why isn't everyone doing this? Yeah, and you can even use like the old GameCube Wavebird wireless controllers that's compatible with the adapter. So like they're just like, yeah, no, it works, which is fantastic. I talked to the competitive guys and I tried the GameCube controller. Again, I never had a GameCube and that controller always felt weird, but playing Smash Bros with it felt right. And people are pointing out the original Wii had it built in by default. Yeah, you just pull down the flap and you can get it, but I mean, you can't have it built in forever. So I understand why they're doing it the way they're doing. I just think that Microsoft and Sony could take a page out of this book where it's giving your customers the choice. I mean, Nintendo has actually done a good job of that even on the original Wii. So you've got your Wiimote, you've got your classic controller, you've got your nunchuck and Wiimote combo, you've got your GameCube controller. You can basically do things the way that you want. I think that's fantastic. Yeah, but my main question for them was why not the pro controller versus the GameCube controller? And the feedback from the players, the feedback from the... I'm helping you, I'm keeping you on track here. The feedback from the very competitive guys was the layout of the GameCube controller is faster and more efficient. And also the analog stick placement, like this is still layout, but analog stick placement is a lot better for comboing buttons. And all of that totally makes sense. And I kind of felt it while I was there, especially that little yellow stick. You can flick that and press a button really easily. So I totally understand why you would want a GameCube controller. And then they have, if you don't have old GameCube controllers and you're worried about like local stores running out, they're going to be releasing what? Like a $30 Smash Bros GameCube controller. I believe that's what it is. So you'll be able to buy new ones if that's the case, or if you want to make sure your old ones are still fine, you can just buy a new one. So for 150 bucks, you will be able to completely kit out your Wii U and GameCube controllers. That's not bad. That's really... And if you're willing to buy controllers used, you can do it a lot cheaper than that. Yeah, yeah, definitely. You can get GameCube controllers pretty cheap. Although I would probably do that quickly. Yeah, really. Before everyone catches on to this. Yeah, before GameCube controllers just start flying off shelves everywhere. But yeah, that was that was a ton of fun. What else was there? I got to play Hyrule Warriors. Yeah. And it was smooth. I was never a huge fan of what is called Dynasty Warriors. Never. Well, okay. I was never a huge fan because I never had it. Right. But like it was fun. It was fun to play. It's an interesting new IP for them. But it does seem even with very rarely playing Dynasty Warriors. I was like, yeah, I'm playing Dynasty Warriors. But as Link or Zelda. Right. Which is I don't know. It was kind of fun. All right. Let's talk about Mario Maker. So this was originally posted on the forum by Top War Gamer. So thank you for that. But your thoughts on it. You played around with it a little bit, right? Yeah. Really, really smooth and very fast. Extremely fast. My my concern with something like this is is the same as my concern with any any game that kind of goes, hey, we're giving you guys the reins. I like games that are designed by professional game designers. Did were they allowing people to create their own levels while while you were there? And were you able to play other people's levels? Yeah, I got to play levels of two, again, two of the competitive guys. I was kind of going around with them for a little while. Sure. And that was kind of fun because they were making absolutely ridiculous levels. Right. Like nine impossible levels because they're competitive guys. And that was kind of fun. But even if something's ridiculous, you can you can jump into the editor at any point in time of any level, even levels that come stock with the game and move your character. So if you're like, this part's dumb, you just be like, I'm now here and keep going. Which is actually kind of nice, because one of the competitive guys accidentally made part of it impossible. He didn't realize one of the things was going to jump onto a certain thing that it did. Right. So he was like, oh, OK, whatever, and just edit his character up onto the next point and then kept going, which was actually kind of nice. And you can also live edit anything. So if you play one of the stock maps, you can live edit it so you can like add things to make more difficult and change things. And my biggest worry was actually something that you just brought up other people's levels right now. They don't have it set up so that you can actually download off of a community. But they were like, yeah, every single person pretty much who's played has suggested that. Right. So not saying anything's going to happen. But yeah. And one thing that was fairly interesting about Nintendo is they had a slight indie feel the whole time, where when you go to a AAA place, it's just like game stations where you can play and PR people. Yeah. They had the developers for a lot of the games walking the floor talking to people. That's really cool. It was really cool. Like the main guy behind Splatoon every single time was going around to every single person that was playing and asking them what their thoughts were after the game. And like with a notepad legitimately writing things down. That's fantastic. I mean, that's something that really I find differentiates one company from another one. I mean, we see the same thing at CES where there are certain companies. You go to their booth and it's like the president or like VP of worldwide marketing or whatever. And typically it's smaller companies, but seeing big ones behave like that is really impressive. And you see it sometimes. It's not only Nintendo, but it was very nice to see it at Nintendo. You do see it from time to time. I mean, even at CES, we've met people like I met some senior director level. I actually met the CEO of WD at a party last year. Like you do run into these people, but it's usually really difficult. And the fact that they were just there in the booth was actually really cool. And you'd never really know. Like they weren't wearing shirts that were like dev team. Like they had Nintendo shirts, but they just kind of looked like average employees. Right. But if you recognize them, you could tell. And a lot of people didn't. So there was actually fine. They could kind of move around freely, but it was really cool to see them picking up all that feedback and even other employees. They were using as like proxies essentially. So there's other employees would ask questions. And then I saw them like they'd meet up, exchange notes, and then keep going. Like they were really hardcore about getting feedback from people, which is cool. And apparently that's where the game cube controller thing came from. Right. So many fans demanded a different input solution for Smash Bros. When it came out, but they were like, Hey, we'll just make this $20 little device. It solves all the problems. That's great. What a great attitude. Yeah. That was like I said, this was Nintendo's year. They rocked E3. 100%. I got some really cool, I don't know if I'm supposed to take these, but um, I, the voting cards from the Nintendo Invitational. Yes. Did you see how that worked when they held up the cards? No. They were like this big and you voted for which character should win or whatever. And it was like this book of voting cards. You are such an embarrassment sometimes. He has no shame when it comes to swag. Like I've been in the industry a long time and companies will be like, here, do you want the swag bag at our booth? And I'm like, no, it's okay. I really, I don't even have anywhere to put this stuff at this point. And he's like, he's going to be like, Oh yeah, I'll take it. Also I'll have Linus's. Do you have any other stuff? Do you have any stuff that's just a part of your actual booth fixture, but I can just take it? I've tried that before. It's worked before. You know what's funny though? Um, and let's move on to, uh, let's move on to our, did you have anything else particularly for Nintendo? Cause I've got a great segue. Uh, the other stuff would just be in the video, which is up in like seven minutes. So be sure to check that out. All right. So let's move on to speaking of boots swag, the designed by Razer licensing program. This was officially posted or originally posted by La Foray on the Linus tech tips forum. Thank you very much for that. I'm going to switch over to my screen here and Oh, Oh, there it goes. That was interesting. So this is the Razer special edition H440. It is basically an NZXT H440, but with what are they calling it? A special edition H440 for gamers by gamers. Designed by Razer H440. Oh, it's probably this adapter. Yeah. Yes it is. Technostream. Oh no, stop. Well, I'm holding it now. Um, anyway, so this is, it's got like a design by Razer badge, um, right here. And that's pretty cool. Um, but truthfully that, that this case isn't the big news to me. The big news here is more collaboration between brands like this. I think that's a very positive thing. I mean, aesthetics are definitely a factor for me when I'm building a rig. And I think they're a factor for a lot of people, although it's hard to tell with you, but aesthetics are definitely a thing. I mean, as much as you know what, we don't owe the big corporations anything. We don't have to put their logos all over our chests and all over our stuff. But if you really like what someone, and if that is a company is doing, then you really are driven to put their, their branding on stuff and that makes you feel cool. Then I think stuff like this is great. Um, they haven't changed anything really. Like let's be truthful about this. They put a logo on the front, they changed the color scheme, they put some lighting effects in it, but that's about it. It's still an H440. But what I like about this is the H440 is a great case. So now it's available in black and green. That's cool. Yeah, I'm done with that. Anyway, so onto stealing things from booths. Um, one of the ones that was in NZXT is booth. That's like an early mock-up. They're sending it here. Oh, oh, I thought it got stolen. I was like, I didn't take this. No, no, they're, uh, they're going to tear it down after the show and then they're going to send it to us so that we can our next build guide that we film, not the one that's coming out this weekend, by the way, there's a build guide coming out this weekend. The next one that we film is going to be a green and black themed rig in this case. Cool. That'll be good. We're going to have a pre-production. It does look nice. And because the green LEDs are very dark and there's like the kind of blackout tint on the window a little bit. It's this like deep kind of moody green, which actually looks pretty good. I'm working on sourcing a bunch of like cool green themed stuff to put in it. So that's that sniper with the, I don't know what it's called, but not red line because it's green line. Gigabytes new boards aren't green. What? And this is going to be a devil's canyon system. So I'd rather use a Z97 board if I can. Yeah. Yeah. Bummer. So I'm planning to use a saber tooth just because at least it's just black. Yep. And then I'm going to get some green memory. We're probably going to paint memory. I'm giving away, I'm giving away too much. The next build guide in that case is going to be frigging awesome. Speaking of devil's canyon, I think that leads pretty well into the Pentium KG3258 cryptically named, but the results are looking pretty impressive. This was originally posted by the Magical Maniac on the Linus Tech Tips forum. Original article here is from bit tech. And this processor looks like the spiritual successor to the Pentium D805, which basically means we are looking at some pretty kick ass stuff going on here. The D805 was a dual core processor. It consumed a bunch of power, whereas this one won't. It was very, very low clocked out of the box, which this one is, but what kicked butt about the Pentium D805 was it overclocked like nuts. That thing was cheap and it was a fantastic value. And at the time that was Intel's response to a very competitive AMD, where Intel is basically like, hmm, okay, we have to do something because our chips are just not worth that much right now. So they came up with the Pentium D805. They removed some features. Like it didn't have all the same stuff that something like a 930 or what did they call them? Yeah, I think it was a 930 or something like that. Anyway, didn't have all the same features, but it overclocked like a bat out of hell and it was a chip of choice for gamers. This looks like it's going to be pretty much the same thing. So we've seen people reporting overclocked from 3.2 to 4.5 gigahertz. Like I said before, it is only a dual core, but in games that are not dependent on heavily threaded processors with hyper-threading and four or six or eight cores, this thing is going to absolutely kick butt. So they're showing what kind of performance increases you can see with it. It shows what kind of performance it has. I'm seeing some reports, although it's not in this particular article, that we could be looking at similar to 4770K performance with this chip, especially in games where we're not bound by how many processing cores that we have. So looks pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good. That is actually really interesting. But I've had people... And it does have hyper-threading, by the way. Two cores, two threads. So just like a core i3, but unlocked and overclockable. Yeah. Okay. What else we got? There's like everything this week. Should we talk about GTA V and that other game? Sure. That Shall Remain Nameless? Let's do GTA V first. All right. So this was originally posted on the Linus Tech Tips forum by Eskew. Thank you for that. You're awesome. Yay. Shout outs for all the people who post news on the Linus Tech Tips forum. You guys are awesome. Anyway, original article was from Eurogamer.net. GTA V is coming to the PC, PS4, and Xbox One, and at least two of those three I think we kind of saw coming. But... Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna be able to transfer your online saves, which will be interesting, but I haven't heard anything on campaign transfer. This is actually kind of the reason why I quit playing back when I had a roommate. We had it for Xbox 360 and I stopped like pretty early in. Because I was like, this is an awesome game, but I'm gonna wait because I hope it'll come to PC eventually. I'm surprised it took them a year. I hope that's because they're optimizing it because on launch GTA IV was like completely poo. That's basically all I have to say about it. It performed terribly. But they've again, they've taken a year and I think the platform architecture is going to be a lot more similar than last time. So hopefully that helps them as well. Apparently there will be existing, like the existing add-on content for GTA V will be kind of bundled in. There's going to be upgraded AI for the PC version even compared to Xbox One and PS4, which will be really cool. They're going to have improved things like draw distances, textures, denser traffic, wildlife, upgraded weather, upgraded damage effects, and tons of other crap which is absolutely fantastic. I hope it is extremely moddable. They're going to have a movie maker, but mods are something I am pretty interested in because you saw like IC Enhance. If he comes back and does GTA V, like please, it's amazing. You did an incredibly good job with GTA IV, but we need you again sir or madam, but I'm assuming sir. Yeah, that would be great. I don't really know what else to say. That would be great. If he could just come back and do all that work, that would be great. Yeah, because like you can look at GTA IV screenshots from that guy that look better than like any game that's released now, which is ridiculous. But yeah, that would be great. And then there's the Dead Rising 3. Super cool announcement that turned out to be not super cool at all. Okay, so hold on. So let's start with the good things about this. So number one is that consumers, and I encourage people to do this all the time. If you're unhappy about something, if you're all butthurt, don't give people your money. If you don't like what people are doing, don't give them your money. So I don't know why Dead Rising 3 is coming to PC. It wasn't supposed to. It might have something to, yeah. Well, I know it wasn't supposed to. Do we have the link to it's not coming to PC? Yeah, way down. Yeah, hold on. Control F. Dead Rising. Oh no, that's control bookmark. Stop it. Control bookmark? Screw you, hippie. Okay, so, mind it? Yeah, it's not there. Whatever. Anyway, so the original story was, I mean, with GTA V, the rumors have kind of been out there for a long time. And they've never officially denied it. They've never said, no, it's not coming to PC. With Dead Rising 3, it was not supposed to come to PC. So whether it's because Xbox One isn't selling that well, which would be a definite sort of good job, guys, for not buying things that you're not happy with. So whether it's that or whether it's something else, whether it's Microsoft kind of going, hey, well, we want more Xbox One content on PC because we really are committed to that. Although I really doubt it's the second one. It's a great thing to see more exclusive console franchises coming to the PC. But then they went and they just wrecked it. One thing before we get into how they wrecked it, there's a quote saying, definitely not a timed exclusive. It's an Xbox One game. We see a lot of this online. It's not coming to PS4 or PC. Yeah, that was like months ago. Well, but yeah, so they've they've they've frame capped it to 30 FPS and they have a warning on it so that if you can take that cap off, which is nice, I guess. I don't think you've put enough emphasis on it. They frame capped it at 30 FPS on the PC. And like I said, you can take it off. But there's a giant warning saying like, we're not responsible for what happens if you do this. And they fully expect the game's just going to completely break if you do that. So the physics is actually it actually works based on the frame rate. So it's what what need for speed? I don't remember which one I was just going to say, you could double how fast your car was going by making your FPS go from 30 to 60. And like, we're going to have these problems with Dead Rising. And that's super stupid. How lazy is that? Incredibly lazy. There's there's a quote in the Oculus video where I have an interview with Palmer, where I'm talking to him about 30 FPS versus other higher frame rates, because for VR, you're going to need way higher frame rates than 30 FPS, where he says 30 FPS isn't a design choice. It's a failure. Yeah. Like, yeah, no. But just how lazy is it to tie your in game physics to I know a dev on the team, a frame rate, which is like, oh, God, I'm sorry, but it's terrible. I don't. Yeah, that's really lazy. Like, I get it. But it's lazy. I mean, we're talking we're talking stuff that we solved, like, you know, back in the 90s, like problems that on the PC, we were like, oh, yeah, in Goose, when I press the turbo button on my like 386, it goes too fast. Oh, I guess we better address this. Yeah, like, this was this was a problem for a little while with older games where they had no ability to really foresee this. Well, they could, but didn't really think about it. And then it went away for a long time. And now it's back. Why are you back? Should not be a thing. Why are you back? Anyway, I hope we see more ports. I hope we see ports that come over to the PC correctly. I hope Durante or whatever his or however you pronounce his name fixes this. That would be fantastic. There's so many things in the announcements of like stuff coming to PC where I'm like, I hope this one super well known modern guy comes back and fixes everything for us. I really hope so. That would be fantastic. I mean, I the thing I like about this generation of PCs is that the way that they're built is so much more similar. Did I say PCs? Because I'm a console. Sorry, consoles is that the way that they're built is so much more similar to a PC that porting should be easier. And well, mostly that porting should be easier. And but there are a lot of issues with it, too. And I think that that's something that the console makers are very well aware of. So the original post poster for this on the forum was Johnnors. And the original article is from TechRadar. But that is the headline here is the next generation of consoles could come much sooner than expected. So and this is from AMD. So remember, these are the guys that are making the CPU and the GPU in both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox one and the Wii U. I said both because I forgot there are three. I'm sorry, Nintendo. You're still cool. Really? Well, Nintendo, we just said you won E3. I'm sorry. They don't really get dropped onto the next console thing. Yeah, so they came out way before that. 30% less improved. 30% less next gen. Anyway, their games are coming out 1080p 60fps. I know, right? So like owned. And you know what? Right. I think getting wrapped up in in having to deliver. Okay, this is kind of funny because we did a fastest possible on what was it? Refresh rates? No, not that one frame on resolution. Yeah. Well, you were gone. So we did a fast as possible on resolution. And I was getting sample footage of Far Cry 3 running at 720p maximum, like everything on ultra and 1080p with everything on minimum to go, okay, here's an extreme example of how level of detail versus resolution affects how a game looks. And in between switching from 720p, right, 720p maximum to 1080p, not I increased the resolution first. And then I turned all the details off. I was like, you know, if I pixel peep, I can tell. But if I'm not looking that close, like, I just got a lot of performance and it really doesn't look that different. So I'm kind of sitting here going like if you tailor your art style correctly, there isn't really a good reason why you can't turn off some of the goofy effects and get a better frame rate and deliver what is in my mind a much more playable experience. I mean, playing something like Mario Kart at 30fps, 900p, like the first thing I would tell Nintendo is like, come on, man, how are we supposed to play like that? And yet competitive gamers accept this on other consoles. Anyway, this is actually to throw back again to the Nintendo video that just came out nine minutes ago. In part of that, I bring up about how like we use really not the most powerful platform. No, it's really not. But they know that. And they design the games and tailor the games for that. And the art style of the games and everything still looks great. Like, have you seen the Zelda stuff? No, I haven't. Oh my god, it looks really good. But that's because it's their style. Yeah, it's like it's like the whole Blizzard thing. Yeah, Warcraft 3 is a very visually pleasing game. Yeah. I mean, it's got polygons that have like, you know, six sides. Like, this is a sword. Don't look too close. But it looks good because it's a style. And they're pulling off a specific style and it works really well. But yes, and I'm okay with that. And with that, said, I do like that, you know, we're pushing the envelope graphics-wise. Definitely. But I'm more okay with that on the PC end where we can actually have the performance to do it. Anyway, I wonder what the backstory here is. But AMD is hinting that the console developers are even further along than we the end users might expect. Nintendo has apparently already clearly confirmed or confirmed that they have a clear idea. They did this a few months ago. Of what the Wii U successor will look like. And I got to wonder, like, did AMD tell these guys, yo, dog, you know, it's maybe another 20, 30 bucks in bomb cost, but you really need to put a better chip in these things. You need to you need better graphics hardware in these things. Please let us build something better for you. Like, I wonder if they're just kind of sitting there laughing going, okay, well, I guess we're back. Another round all the way. Yeah. Yeah. But it really does feel like they just screwed it up graphics hardware wise. And like I said, we've got a really interesting video coming probably in a couple of weeks where we're going to take a look at how much more power it really takes to go from one resolution to another resolution and deliver the same graphical fidelity. Yeah. Or from a certain frame rate to another frame rate. Yeah. So stay tuned for that. That's actually going to be pretty cool. What else we got? Should we get into one of our rapid fire topics? Sure. Yeah, that's kind of cool. Okay. So this is, and it was originally posted on the forum by Nope, not a forum, not a forum thread. I think I saw it on the forum actually, but whatever. This 370 inch TV costs 1.6 million US dollars, one million pounds. It's actually, it's the Titan Zeus. And you can see, you can see in the picture here, like these are trees, you know, there's no word on the actual image quality. It's a 4k TV. So 370 inches works out to about eight meters wide by five meters tall. And there's only been one sold to a private owner who wants to remain anonymous that we know of so far. Although some people have seen it at film festivals or out on apparently they will also be showing, oh, they'll be showing World Cup matches on it. So they are, you can find them in certain places, but other than that, this just looks like a, because we can type of thing. Even at 4k, what is the PPI of this thing? I know, at eight meters by five meters. Okay, just for you personally, let's say they cost the same. Let's say both solutions are a thousand dollars. Would you want a TV or a projector? Bearing in mind a projector is not going to perform that well in a bright environment. Probably a projector. But it's not in the way, like you can mount it somewhere else. That's right, because like this thing is just, I'd be so worried about it getting destroyed all the time. Right. Moving that anywhere is going to be terrible. Like they're saying they've been to different shows and stuff. The first thing that popped in my mind is like how intricate the shipping process must have been. Right, yeah. Because holy crap, and then it's a projector, you can just throw it in a box. It's like, okay, cool. At that size, I would probably go for a projector. And because I don't know, like you can even see there, it's kind of black around the TV. You're probably, where are you going to put this in a house? And if it's outside, it's probably going to be at night. Eight meters by five meters. I'm just trying to think, where would you put this in a house? Although if you're buying a million dollar TV, maybe you can put this in a house. Right. Yeah, that's really big. I mean, eight meters, that's like 25 feet. I guess you could, like you would have to build a room for it. Yeah, but then again, at a million dollars, you could probably just do it. Even like a baller house, where there's like, you know, a basketball court. We're talking like you're converting your basketball court. It's kind of a big deal, actually. But then at a million dollars, you're kind of probably a big deal. So I don't know. Yeah, or the son of a big deal. Either way. Oh, ghost is ghost says it's 11.91 pixels per inch, which is sort of terrible. I mean, you're going to have to sit like, like drive in theater distance away from that room a lot more difficult to set up. I mean, at a certain point, I think that this point really is 55 inches. At a certain point, does a bigger TV even make any sense or are you better off just sitting closer to a smaller TV? You have to you have to wonder about room design. Like in some houses, it's going to be pretty far throw distance. Yeah. What's the proper throw distance for 55 inch TV? I can't remember. Is this retina.com has sort of a measurement of what pixel densities will look like, what will look like retina from certain distances. But 55 is pretty big for a reasonable size room. Whereas I think you could probably go, you could push 60, 70 for something like more like a home theater, like media room. But even then, like you'd probably want to go projector because you're going to build a proper media room at that point anyway. And then you can throw like a nice hundred inch or whatever else and you can do it on the cheap. You can do it for a few grand. And if you're building a media room, you can probably control the lighting. Yes. So it's probably fine. And I would spend, I would spend my million dollars on like the most badass seating. Yeah. Instead, like with like poop holes built into each seat, so you never have to move. And like, well, no, no, okay, look, so the way it would work is you'd have a constant, you'd have a constant suction from somewhere outside of the room so that the smell of the poo would never actually reach the other people. And then what you could do is you could turn the suction off so that your butt doesn't get cold the entire time that you're sitting there. You have heated seats. Genius, right? Yeah. The best idea ever? No. But so was that like a, you're a loser? Have you seen the Rockette video that I released? I haven't watched it yet. I'm familiar with the keyboard though. Yeah, it is actually pretty interesting. And I've seen quite, because the main reason why I wanted to do that video is so many people ask about wireless keyboards. And as it's not technically just a wireless keyboard. This is great. Sorry, someone just posted a Twitch chat. He put thought into this? No, that was off the top of my head. Thank you though. Sorry, go ahead. Wow. Johnny says, why are we watching this? Little do we know, go back to Linus' house. There's this like in a dark room, there's this blue schematic up on the wall. I have like all these whiteboards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What if this would work? We could apply suction in exactly this way. If we, if we while the pipes together, we can just have one big vacuum. That's terrible. Sorry, tell me about the Rockette thing. It's wireless, it's mechanical. It's pretty cool. My biggest worry was that like it has a built-in mouse pad and built-in wrist rest. Yes. And those are just going to get insta destroyed. Yes. But it's supposed to be modular. You're supposed to be able to replace them. I hope that it's not like this crazy proprietary, insanely expensive solution in terms of modularity. Yeah, it probably is. Probably is. But yeah, so I mean, it looks pretty cool. It's like a desk keyboard mouse pad thing that's designed to bring gaming to the couch. Better than most other desk keyboard mouse pad things that I've seen before, other than potentially the CouchMaster. But then that's like a... CouchMaster is bulky. Yeah. The CouchMaster is multiple pieces, so it's really not that elegant. It's a very different solution though from this one. Yeah. So it's good in certain situations, but it's giant. So I don't know. It's up to you. All right. Oh, I was just thinking. I was like, oh, we should game tonight for after party. But the wife and kid, my wife gets off early. And then I didn't see the baby yesterday. So I guess speaking of the baby, I got to feed him somehow. So here come our sponsors. Oh, that's the wrong thing. Sorry. Didn't mean to do that. Okay. So first up, that's Pax. What am I doing? Oh, yeah. We got there. All right. I'm going to let you thank the E3 sponsors. Thank you to HyperX. They brought us down to their whole HyperX offices and we got to do an office tour. That was actually cool. Did you see that one? No, I don't watch your videos. They have a 5v5 gaming land room set up. Okay. I saw that part of it. Ridiculous. Yeah. Oh man. Those chairs, man. Oh my... And they're really, really comfortable chairs. I got to sit in one for a little while. That was really cool. Right off camera in the gaming land room, they have a constantly stocked monster fridge full of monster energy drinks. Hold on. I have a correction, by the way. Back to that Pentium K Anniversary Edition. It is two cores, two threads. No hyper threading. Sorry. Okay. Go ahead. Okay. Just saw that. Yeah, that was pretty cool. That helped me because I hadn't slept. When I was filming those Kingston videos, all three of the Kingston videos, I changed shirts so it looked like different days, but it was all within the same little bit of thread. Such a dork. But it was in a range of like 30 to 34 hours that I had been awake for filming those videos. So we walk into the land room and there's a monster fridge and I'm like, ah... What's hilarious is I actually got a message from Kingston that specifically said, yeah, it's amazing how your team was great. They were super awesome. They were really professional, especially considering how little sleep they had. So thanks to Kingston for sending us down there. Also huge thanks to Corsair and NCIX for sending us down there. Corsair specifically wants us to highlight the heck out of their new RGB keyboards, which of course they don't have to tell us to do. No, we've done that a lot. Because we heart the RGB keyboards all the way. And then NCIX asked us to specifically call out what a great value we think that buying a gaming rig from NCIX is. And I think we can both get on board that because compared to buying a boutique rig or compared to building it yourself, there's a compelling value here because you get all the parts for the same price as it would cost to buy them off the shelf or online from some other retailer. They do price match. So you literally can get them for the same price as another retailer. Then they assemble it for you for 50 bucks. And that 50 bucks includes a one-year return to depot warranty that includes troubleshooting and North American tech support. I personally know people that are actually really good at building computers that are just way too lazy and have paid the 50 bucks. Yeah. And they do a pretty good job. I don't. It's not like old school Voodoo PC origami cabling. They're not individually sleeving every wire. That's not what you're getting. What you're getting is a professionally installed computer that is 50 bucks. So yeah, it's actually not that bad. When I was first told, I used to build computers for people for like, I think it was like 75. Then I heard NCIX was doing it for 50. And I was like, oh, I really hope this doesn't get out. All right. So our next sponsor call out, and this one is a huge deal. This time next week, I will be getting ready to get on a plane and go climb the second highest mountain in the lower 48. Wait, are we having a WAN show next week? Yeah, there'll be a WAN show. He said this time next week. I'll be getting ready. Yeah. A WAN show? Well, ready-ish. Are we streaming? Oh, just calm down. Anyway, there's WAN show next week. So we're going to be preparing to hike Mount Elbert with a huge group, hopefully huge. People just got to confirm and get their tickets, but Austin Evans has his ticket booked. He's coming. Logan from Text Indicate is co-hosting the event with us. So this is a 100% collaborative project between Linus Tech Tips and Text Indicate. So they're going to have Kane there from their team. They're going to have- How many times should we ask Kane about his glasses on camera? Zero. All right. So the Text Indicate team is going to be there. Paul and Kyle from Newegg might be there. And then TLD Today and Tech of Tomorrow, so Jonathan and Elric, are pretty much 100% going to be there. So it's going to be an all-star cast of guys going up and having a LAN at the top of the mountain peak. It's going to be freaking awesome. And ASUS is making this possible with their- I don't want to say too much about it because I don't know how much information is out there, but with a really cool gaming notebook. Some people know- I'm not- Yeah, let's just leave it for now because I'm not 100% sure. So really cool gaming notebook. Intel is in on the action as well. So these will be Core i7 powered gaming notebooks. And finally, Corsair is making us hike to the top of a mountain carrying RGB keyboards. We're very thankful to Corsair for being involved in making this event possible, but I really wish I didn't have to carry a mechanical keyboard with an aluminum backplate up a mountain. But it's going to be awesome guys. There's going to be some great content coming out of this. Some collabs, some vlogs, so be excited for that and a huge thanks to those guys. Someone in the chat just said, hey guys. Hey guys, welcome to the world's highest LAN party. This is the first time I've formally met Lou or Austin. Oh yeah, E3 right? Yeah yeah yeah. And I was like semi-disappointed that right when I walked up Austin wasn't like, hey guys. I was really hoping that was going to happen. Oh I love trolling him about that. It's so fun. So fun. The video that he posted on his channel from CES with him, Dimitri from Hardware Canucks I think it was, me and MKBHD. He like wanted everyone to introduce themselves and I'm like, hey guys it's me Linus from Linus Tech Tips. And Austin's just like no. That's great. He's a good guy. I'm really looking forward to this trip. It's going to be a lot of fun. That was awesome. Did you know that we posted a video on Lou's channel? No. Nick, myself, Brandon, Austin we're all in a video on Lou's channel. Oh that's cool. It's uh where we got to check out the possibly a prototype like they're using it for case manufacturing iPhone 6. Oh yeah. And he was like he dropped it on the table while already filming and we're all just like what what is this? And he like told us what it was on film and then we have all first impressions and everything. Lou is such a badass. How does he get this stuff? He is a badass. That's all there is to say about it. Yeah. That's all there is to say. He's a badass. I really wanted him to come to the Highlander event and he really wanted to come but it just didn't work out this time. But you know guys don't be surprised to see some kind of collaborative effort between Linus Tech Tips and Unbox Therapy sometime to kind of make up for that to each other because we owe each other to hang out. And I think Lou was pretty disappointed when he messaged me. He was like hey do you want to get together? Blah blah blah. You guys are at E3. I'm like yeah I'm not actually there. My guys are there but I'm not. He's just like okay. Okay. And then we ended up going to a dinner and a lunch with him. So Brandon, Nick, and I have met Lou more times than you have I think. I have had I have. Oh I don't know if I've had more meals with him than you actually because I bailed on him at CES because I had to go to like AMD's party and they were they like paid our way for that two days. They covered our hotel and everything and if I didn't show up at that party I was going to be like a really bad person. And I bailed on Lou and Lamar Wilson and who else was there for that? I got to meet Lamar Wilson as well. Yeah. I suck. I'm a bad person. Speaking of things that suck, this product really doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I wouldn't say it sucks. I think it's a it's a cool idea. The original article is on Hexis and this is Philips's virtually seamless two-in-one monitor. So they showed this off at Computex and what they've basically done is they've put two ultra thin bezel 19 inch display panels on a single stand and they allow them to be rotated up to 22 and a half degrees. This won a Computex gold award for outstanding innovation which was a little bit confusing to me because Samsung had their MDX series which allowed you to have three or six panels off of a single stand quite a while back and I'm pretty sure that you know monitor stands have been doing this for a while but the innovation here is the virtual seamlessness between the monitors. The one thing that I really question about it and sort of why I segued into this with Speaking of Sucks is the one thing I question here is what is the value here compared to a 21 by 9 monitor which has no better. Are these individually able to be rotated? Yes. If you can flip one completely over I might understand it for office situations. Flip it over? No not like that like you can you can move them a bit. Oh not that. Yeah so compared to just a completely flat monitor I guess it's nice to have them angled in at you a little bit but for this product to be a success I would have to see it be very inexpensive. I would have to see it be targeted at business users who are typically buying you know whatever uh that Acer one that we really like with the slim bezel. Yeah yeah. We're typically buying something like that and putting them next to each other. If you're going to save me a few millimeters of bezel space um I don't expect to pay a massive premium for it so that's my sort of take on that. I've seen because when I first saw this which was very not that long ago I assumed that you could take one of them and flip it over because I've seen that be pretty interesting in office situations because if someone's sitting on the other side of the desk right you want to show them something on that monitor flip it over it'll auto correct when it gets to the other side and they can see it and that's actually kind of cool but then yeah I guess not. All right so moving on to Darphon's Maglev keyboard. You want to cover this? You're the keyboard dork. Um I'm just ah see but I'm not really that interested. I know I don't cover things I'm not interested in all the time. I don't think this is a good idea. Every time I talk well then say it's not a good idea. That's what this show is. Because okay so it's the weekly analysis and news show analyze. Can't spell analyze without anal. Okay so it's blah blah blah blah you can you can this will hopefully be able to get uh reduction in thickness in notebooks because you don't need as much space for the keys. Yeah for like the plastic junk that goes in there. Yeah yeah yeah and they're using magnetic levitation to keep the keys in a raised position which already sounds potentially not good. Um and it's I don't that's that's about it. I'm worried about the magnetic levitation thing because you can throw off magnets with uh minor impacts and it's in a laptop. That's true. So if it bumps around too much and stuff like a lot of people are throwing SSDs in laptops now and they're not treating them as carefully as they did when they used to have hard drives in them. Right. Because the big problem with tossing your notebook around used to be the hard drive. Yeah. If you throw magnets in there impacts could be an issue. Um another thing is the depth is not very high. Which is the whole point. Yeah. They're trying to slim it down more. But the whole point is that that's going to suck because if you've ever tried typing on a completely flat surface that's terrible. Speaking of surface I see this being very applicable for something like Microsoft Surface. Yeah I could see that. Something like a type cover could benefit from this where thinness is the priority not you know the tactile feedback. Yeah. But it looks like initial impressions of this are that the travel distance isn't long enough and then I don't really see there being any benefit on something like a more just a straight up touch like a more normal size notebook. Yeah yeah. This is fairly large. Where you have room. Yeah. For a larger design. Or this one. This is yeah yeah yeah. There you go. I don't know. It's just it's going to be a bad typing experience and if you just went for it like a capacitive touch which is going to feel worse. But if thickness is the priority. I've typed. Did you ever type on the touch cover from the original Surface? It was terrible. Yeah. But it was really thin. And I mean yeah. Like this I don't think this is going to be a great experience. Is it going to be enough to be because it's probably going to be thicker than a capacitive type. Oh yeah for sure. Yeah. So you're going thicker. You're sacrificing that thinness for a slightly better experience which is still not a good experience. Well you haven't tried it yet. Yeah. But I can I'm making assumptions to be 100% honest but I don't think it's going to be a very good typing experience. I don't know. I'm it's it's interesting because it's new technology. Although I don't I don't really think it's going to be a huge thing. All right. So let's move on to something that I'm extremely butthurt about. This isn't the kind of thing. This is stupid. This isn't the kind of thing that we normally cover on this show like oh Google changed one feature or Apple added one thing to their you know what this is so ridiculous. Google is doing away with the ability to add a calendar invitation to an email. I use this every single day. We use this a lot. It is so handy. So in the old days and like okay. In the old days all you had to do was within an email click add calendar invitation. It pops up a little box and anyone else who gets that email can say yes no maybe and it automatically adds that event to your own calendar so that you don't have to go over to your calendar set it up find a shareable link to it go back to your email and send it to someone and the reason they're doing away with it is because spammers are using it to send calendar invitations to people. Okay. Why do we care? So so what we're gonna we're gonna cancel email because spammers are using it to send unwanted messages to people. You don't have to accept the invitation. Super dumb. Super not impressed. We actually do use this a lot and the thing is it's not just internally. We do use a lot internally but I'll get messages from people that we're working with with calendar invites. This is gonna get super annoying. Like why take it out? It's like they don't want me to use Gmail. Google's been doing a lot of weird crap lately. So mad and it's one of those things where it's like you know what we're business users like if you're gonna take it away fine take it away from the free accounts or something and then even then if if we're talking paid accounts then I don't think you're gonna have an issue with people abusing it because you there's not gonna be that many to filter through and find out who's abusing it right. Whereas business users need this kind of thing. Anything that saves a little bit of time is enough to convince me to change platforms. Yeah. And like taking integration away rather than building it up is infuriating. So I'm mad. I'm making sure you guys all know that I'm mad and I guess that's all I really have to say about it. Yeah I don't know because there's really not that much else to say about it. Happy topic SwiftKey. Yeah SwiftKey is free now dog. Yeah. That's awesome. I posted this on Facebook and it was basically like SwiftKey is free go get it please. This was posted originally on the forum by TopWarGamer. Thank you very much for posting that. Basically don't feel bad if you paid though. You get 10 free skins so you get like a 10 pack of cool looking skins for your keyboard so I went and cashed that in right away. In fact you know it's funny because normally I don't really give a crap about skins or free perks or whatever for software that I have but SwiftKey I was like I was on that. Yeah. And everyone at NCIX today because we've all got SwiftKey I was like did you get your packs? They're like yeah. Yeah that's pretty cool that's pretty cool and like when I first heard about this I didn't know about the the theme packs and all that kind of stuff and I was like damn I bought that not that long ago and I was semi-disappointed and then I talked to this guy he's like free theme packs and I'm like awesome. They handled it really well and I mean you know what even if I did pay for it and and now it's free I still don't feel bad about it. I got my money. I like SwiftKey. It tells me it tells me how many hundreds of thousands of keystrokes I've saved you know there's still something I really wish they would address and that's when it auto-corrects something and you don't like it when you backspace it really needs to revert. Yeah. Like please someone at SwiftKey. It feels awkward. Can you please just go fix that? Yeah. That's something that that's the one thing that the Google keyboard does way better than SwiftKey. When I got Moto X again I was on Google keyboard for a little while and there are a few things like that that I like about it but overall after using it for like a week or so you're like yeah I just need SwiftKey again. Every time every time I do a phone review like I'm working on the G3 right now. Yeah. Every time I do a phone review I try to use that vendor stock keyboard for a bit and it's like a fiasco every time. I'm just like no no forget it. Can you leak some thoughts? I'm interested. I actually I really like the vision it's off right now sorry. The camera's great. I really like the visual style of their of their latest skin. Some of the navigation of their skin definitely needs some work. I really liked Sony's skin. I really like HTC's. I'm not a huge fan of Samsung's. Yeah. And so far I would say this falls on the not a fan of it side of being a fan. Yeah. But I haven't spent much time with it. And you can turn some things off. That's what I noticed with the G2. I've only been switched to it for like a day and a half. Oh because I'm totally not. And there's definitely some cool stuff already. Like HTC copied the whole double touch to turn the screen on thing. Yeah that's so nice. Hardcore copied it. Well LG upped the ante this time because now you can do you can do a code. So instead of because double double tapping I find I accidentally activate it all the time. Whereas now you can you can knock a code into the phone and it'll only unlock if you do it a specific way. I think that's really cool. Pretty cool. I'm down with that. So there's little stuff that I really like so far. But guys stay tuned for the full review. Also I've got a I'm going to be working on the Pad phone soon. Oh interesting. Pad phone X. So that's that phone tablet hybrid thing. You can pull that out of the box. What are your thoughts because I'm a huge fan of the back buttons. But what are your thoughts on the back buttons? Back buttons I like them so far. It's still very disconcerting because I've only been switched to it for a little while. Yeah. But this is the coolest thing about it. Check this out. I was gonna say is that a North American phone? Okay. Blast from the past guys. Antennas. Well is that a North American phone? No it's not. Yeah yeah. This is a Korean phone. It's for TV. Yeah. But uh I got a kick out of it. You know it's funny because I don't understand why they don't just put it on the North American model. Because sometimes your reception is a little bit borderline and I can't imagine it would hurt to have an external antenna. Nope. Like I don't know why they're afraid to put it on. People don't have to take it out. Just have it on there. And it's so small and light. Anyway this is the Pad Phone X. Not that impressed with the somewhat bulkiness of it so far. And that impressed with the seamlessness of turning it into a tablet. And it's not powered on right now. But yeah with the seamlessness of turning it into a tablet. And with the fact that it's going to be priced similarly to what would normally just be a standard phone. So stay tuned for that review as well. This one between the fact that it has wireless charging and the fact that it converts to a tablet may win me over from the 1 in 8. So we'll see. It's not annoying when you hold it this way to have the phone. You can actually use the bottom of the phone thing to like hold on to the tablet. And it's got a solid hardware spec so it may win me over. We'll see. Interesting. No guarantees on that one. Um all right. Oh speaking of Nintendo. This was originally posted on the forum by Rafi and uh it's not actually related to Nintendo but it's Microsoft trying to take feedback from their users. Unfortunately and I'm not going to generalize about Xbox users but unfortunately um some of the top voted ideas are just stupid. But basically the site Xbox.UserVoice.com allows you to go and suggest things to the Xbox team. Vote on other people's suggestions. And uh just generally Microsoft I guess they've just kind of given up. They're like we don't know what to do so help us help you. And I'm glad that's the right way to do it. Good job Microsoft. So I just want to give them a big thumbs up because I think we were beating them up a little bit earlier on the show. What are some of the high rated terrible comments? Oh this one with like 5,000 thumbs up is um um oh can we get we want uh Xbox 360 game backwards compatibility and that's like the top up voted suggestion with like 5,000 thumbs up and I'm just kind of sitting here going like are you are you stupid like do you really think Microsoft didn't think of that if that was a possibility like do you think they didn't think of that we're talking emulating a console that is emulating a console on a completely different architecture that's not you know two or three generations ago it's a stupid suggestion like the games would have to be ported straight up and then you could make them available in the arcade or something and is Microsoft really going to run around and and you know ask every game developer to port all their games and put them in the market no it's like yeah I get that that's what you want but you have to focus on things that are real I mean backwards compatibility for gaming consoles was never really a thing it happened what once with the ps2 being backwards compatible with the ps1 the ps3 had it initially but then it went away can you play xbox games on xbox 360 some it was it was very it was it was a scattershot thing though yeah it was so you go back before it's not like the SNES could play NES games until like way later and you got this weird cartridge sorry the adapter cartridge yeah so you could get like weird adapter cartridges but even then not all the games worked like it was like it's never really been uh like yes this is a thing we're 100 on board this you're going to be able to to to play all your old games on your new consoles you can play Wii games on Wii U as well yes you can but I'm just saying it's not something that is all over the place people are saying GameCube games on Wii I've I didn't know you could do that I don't know how you do that yeah it's uh the small discs you just load them in the same way yeah you just you just same yeah like it happens I'm just saying yeah I'm just trying to give examples because people are freaking out it's something where it's not fun if it's not fundamentally built into it or the architecture isn't somehow similar it's just not going to happen I mean the Wii was a lot more powerful than the GameCube which helps a lot the uh something like the Super Nintendo was so much more powerful than the NES that we're we're talking about using all that extra power to emulate something or however it needs to be implemented with the Xbox One versus the Xbox 360 they're not similar enough and the power difference is not enough I mean even PCs are having trouble emulating Xbox 360 games that's very difficult just emulation's weird yeah emulation's weird and the the truth of the matter is that even someone like Microsoft has to ultimately emulate an older console unless they do what you know Sony did with the early PS3s where they're just putting an emotion chip in it and we saw how much that cost and how they bailed on that like what was it pretty hard yeah yeah those early PlayStation 3s though are worth a lot of money because you can install Linux on them and you can run them as like servers and stuff and you can emulate old games and like yeah they're they're actually legitimately valuable people are like backwards compatibility is just a number and I've got people in the Twitch chat pointing out that the PC back has excellent backwards compatibility yes it does it's amazing whereas consoles it's just like random it's like oh try putting a NES cartridge into a Wii U um another thing uh Microsoft announcement that I don't know if is in the dock is the Halo Master Chief Edition did you hear about that at all Halo Master I don't think it's in the dock oh yeah yeah yeah I heard about that so we're getting a re-released uh what Halos 1, 2, 3, and 4 and numbered ones with Master Chief in it not the offshoots like ODST or Reach right um it's it's it's interesting they're doing some cool things with it like the remastered screenshots actually look really good right they're not changing the mechanics and Halo 2 multiplayer is coming back which is pretty cool Halo 2 multiplayer is coming back Halo 2 1 Halo 1 multiplayer will exist on consoles we have to specify on consoles because we were playing that like last week yeah on PC um but it will exist on console it actually runs better yeah it really does and they're not gonna like quote unquote fix things so like the pistol and Halo 1 is still gonna be massively overpowered which is great they'll have an interesting they'll have a few interesting matchmaking modes like one where it's just all random so it'll just queue you and you'll it'll like put your lobby and be like okay you're gonna play Halo 2 on this map nice and it'll just launch that game and it can it can bounce around in between the games really well apparently it's supposed to have seamless loading between games if you're going through campaign so if you finish Halo 1 it'll just be like whoop you're now on first mention Halo 2 nice it just flows right through nice there's some interesting things so just like when Arrested Development uh relaunched with all the all the episodes at once and nobody slept it's gonna be about like that i guess yeah yeah i think it would be interesting to play through all the campaigns and stuff back to back but like i don't see this selling Xbox ones either i do yeah 100% yeah i wouldn't buy an Xbox one for it personally because if i had all these games i could just go back and play them and the remastered thing is cool ah being able to play online you've bought remastered games before yeah but i haven't bought a console to buy the remastered game you know what i mean i have definitely bought remastered games i actually do like remastered games i have no i actually really like that they remastered Halo 1 and 2 i've bought remastered games yeah yeah the the only thing that i could actually see this selling a console for is like Halo 2 multiplayer because remember how big of a deal that was when they closed that down yep the guys that were like refusing to shut down their consoles and people were like shipping them fans and stuff to keep their consoles running like yeah shutting down the Halo 2 multiplayer servers was not a very clean cut decision so i think people are gonna be stoked that those are back i'd love to see them do this bundle on the pc if they asked for if they asked for 60 bucks 75 bucks for it on the pc i'll pay for it i don't care 100% yeah that would be awesome preferably on steam that would be great yep now we came to Windows Live it's better and better all the time yeah yeah yeah so yeah someone just said luke under estimates the nostalgia of Halo 2 multiplayer yeah i just had that realization yeah it'll probably sell consoles multiplayer was a really i played Halo 2 multiplayer so much ridiculous so yeah yeah good point speaking of uh speaking of new gen consoles let's talk old gen consoles for a second i don't even know if this is really news but apparently Titanfall runs at 600p at 46 fps on the Xbox 360 so someone uh used uh capture device in order to find out how many frames it was actually rendering so i thought that was kind of interesting i was wondering it would it would be kind of an interesting setup but it would be kind of fun to like benchmark consoles every once in a while yeah because you can feel them chug you can feel them not run at 30 or 60 yeah because they make these claims and i'm like well it's not going to be a constant fps anyways so when you're claiming this like craptastic resolution and craptastic fps is that like when you're staring at the floor because who knows no in theory that's the lowest dip right in but it's there's no way all right so this was originally posted on the forum by dazed cobra 42 and uh this is something that some people think is no big deal other people think is a huge deal and that is that Comcast is converting 50 000 home routers in Houston into public wi-fi hotspots so basically it'll only work if you're using your Comcast wireless router modem combo unit and whoever's accessing your router will not be able to use up your data plan or see your home network but the idea is they want to turn it into city-wide wi-fi hotspots for their customers apparently this is already a thing in other countries and i've seen posts in the thread on our forum where people are pretty positive about the idea and how it works but one drawback that i can see is that unless they're somehow managing the connection with magic to ensure that my ping times in my game don't get increased because someone is walking by you know torrenting on the sidewalk outside of my house if they can find a way that that doesn't happen and they can't access my network and they can't utilize any of my monthly bandwidth limitation then i guess i don't care i don't think any of those things are gonna happen and you can opt out okay you can opt out are gonna know this is a thing but most people won't notice yeah at all so um this is super dumb because like yeah okay it's not gonna affect your your your bill yeah but it's gonna affect your availability but think about this okay so as a shaw customer or telus customer or whatever you have at your place um you don't tell us right yeah okay so as a telus customer if you could you know let's okay here great example let's say e3 wasn't in um let's say it wasn't in la let's say it was in toronto and okay i guess toronto is a bad example they don't have telus okay whatever the point is what if e3 was in vancouver so you're out of your house you want to upload a video and public wi-fi is crap so it was what i'm sorry it was yes public wi-fi was a hundred so let's say public wi-fi was crap let's say you're a telus customer and all you have to do is walk down the street wait to find another house that has a telus customer in it beep beep boop and you've got a solid internet connection where i can upload videos and destroy their connection okay i didn't destroy hold on i said how would you feel about being the person who has access to wi-fi hotspots everywhere i would feel good and i would destroy that kid's internet who's just trying to play a video game because that's why the public wi-fi there was terrible everyone was just trying to upload stuff the whole time and it was bad i have a screenshot on twitter of like estimated upload time 20 000 minutes from our hotel because the internet was just like nope so yeah your your your your your bill isn't going to be worse the integrity of your data is probably not going to be harmed the availability of things online is probably going to have an issue and that's not okay in my opinion so stef says the comcast thing has been around in belgium for almost a decade it has a four user limitation and shaped traffic okay well those are things i didn't know about okay but this is this is in belgium this is not comcast comcast might implement it however they implement it but there's a precedent for this oh and apparently it's nationwide currently available for business class customers now it's going to residential so there you go interesting i mean as long as it doesn't affect it i am pretty happy about it if i'm on one of these things and it's available to me and i'm ever near someone's house i'm just going to wreck their connection unless they unless it's unless it's shaped or throttled so that you can't destroy it it's not going to be that helpful unless all you need to do is like you know find a but then you should be using your cell phone if you're just looking up a map or whatever okay well let's say your cell phone's out of battery but you happen to have your laptop and no usb cables and no usb no uh yes and no usb cables and no battery banks whatever screw you um let's do a twitter blitz let's do twitter blitz let's let you guys tell us what you think of this are you okay with your isp allowing other people to use your connection as long as and this is i guess this is they should use their qubilions of dollars and just set up properly public wi-fi okay this is another thing that really bothers me remember when that story broke about the back doors that were built into all these routers so if i'm saying the integrity thing well they're not gonna see your network someone's gonna figure it out so if if it was bulletproof then it's fine like if we were if we were talking like like two separate you know firmware firmwares running on the on like two separate storage devices on the router like and they're like sharing two ends sharing physical resources but otherwise a completely different set of software then i'm like yeah okay whatever fine go for it if we're talking about somehow this can be exploited i'm i'm sure and there's got to be something in terms of data sniffing because you're going on the same line i don't know i don't know enough about that but when you're when you're on a different network because i have to i don't i'm not sure how they're splitting it which is part of the problem so stefan says oops uh stefan says um connection is entirely separated from yours uh data plan wise also bandwidth it's not necessarily like i don't know if they can necessarily do that not not probably enough right because like they're shaping it or whatever but is it giving 100 priority to the person in the house 100 because we we utilize our data connection here at linux media group a lot so if this happened to our router and we somehow didn't turn off the option thing if we didn't opt out we would instantly opt out but if we didn't we would be we would possibly have issues if they had any percentage of the connection right because we like we're in canada we don't have that great of internet and we we really utilize our internet connection that's another thing if you have like a crazy pipe going to that house maybe it's not as big of a deal um alican is saying that on tech syndicate they were talking about comcast using your electricity for this yeah i get it but you're you're uh it seems pretty negligible yeah i mean yeah they are it's not right and it's not it's not it's not right but it's not the kind of thing that i would probably lodge a complaint with my you know local representative about yeah um okay wow we got 36 responses now but it's just a public router yeah exactly they should be doing this infrastructure on their own they shouldn't be utilizing other customers right nothing is bulletproof when it comes to networking again i don't know how you're gonna do it someone's gonna figure out some way wait where'd you where'd you get that up a little bit oh yeah nothing is bulletproof when it comes to networking yeah very important point uh sam says isps need to become less intrusive give us a good service and shut up we don't get the water company calling us offering better water you know what sam that is a retweet right there that is the first time we have ever taken something on the wandshow and it has been so bang on yeah that we have to tweet it immediately that was really good um they need to add like utility companies and his last name is really close to fluoride no i don't care i'm not looking at it no fine that's not that close to fluoride i thought it was closer anyways oh you should test your xps 12 for image burning issue uh the image burning issue is terrible on my xps 12 like like super bad like i can see my desktop and i am in i am in metro mode so yes i'm aware of the issue it's terrible it doesn't really affect me using the computer and i still do like it comcast may be able to increase your bandwidth if you're sharing a connection but i'm against this security breach imminent security breach imminent no it's mine if you're giving me a monthly discount to offer up my connection to others now we're talking that's a good point anthony and i could see but they're going to be like you get 50 cents or nothing or lower yeah nothing um they have their own hotspot infrastructure yep which is what they should be doing tom asks how's your experience with the pebble still going really like the id it is it is much nicer looking in my opinion than the old pebble that i had you did order one in bright orange yeah but it was more about the bulk yeah and the and the plasticiness this has a glass front panel which makes a big difference to readability especially now that i've scratched the heck out of a plastic one um and i think it just looks way more professional way more stylish i'm very pleased so far using the hotspot to download torrents and not using my monthly cap yay you know what i gotta wonder because sha has uh sha has public hotspots and i wonder if it counts towards your cap because you have to log into them and dodging uh torrent stuff if you pirated on the public network using a wi-fi connection but if they are if they ask you to log in with your customer id the way that sha does then that's even more trackable yeah yeah there's there isn't even any plausible deniability like oh i didn't have my wi-fi network secured it was someone outside my house um if anyone is using my internet i'll go completely mad don't want people making me no no you don't pay for the other people to use your internet it doesn't work that way it doesn't count towards your bandwidth limit i've been here for years in the uk allow you to opt in oh so you have to opt in to use other people's hotspots okay that's kind of all right if it starts but you were talking you can opt out this is that you would have to yeah like i like this system that's cool yeah i like that better swallocks is not okay hell no especially not considering comcast's reputation yeah it's kind of a that's like yeah you have to assume anything coming out of there is going to be terrible to find why it's terrible it's usually not that hard though let's play the find why it's terrible game featuring comcast ea oh yeah hasn't done anything that evil lately have they i'll be probably i haven't been paying a ton of attention there's probably been some all right well i think that's pretty much it for the land show guys oh right okay i'll let you talk about oculus again for a second this was originally posted on the forum by top war gamer and facebook boss mark zuckerberg sees oculus as a chance to get the device into as many hands as possible price be damned and he says uh oh uh there's there's that quote saying the oculus riff will sell at the lowest cost possible there's also palmer saying that it will sell at cost what palmer actually meant by selling at cost was including things like bomb cost shipping distribution all that stuff so like they're not looking to gain money off of sales of individual oculus they just don't want to lose they're not losing money though mark zuckerberg doesn't seem to give any cares no yeah lose all the money put oculus is in the hands of everyone um there's been a ton of stuff coming out there was the interview that i had um where he was talking about how um tons of people are working on input stuff that's even not announced right and then there was another interview where he actually like semi admitted to oculus working on other hardware that isn't the rift interesting they're working on their own input solutions they're working on all that kind of stuff they're also working on first party games so developing their own games under oculus and with recent hires like one of the co-founders of naughty dog some people are expecting some like pretty legit stuff so interesting things coming out of there i would highly recommend to shill for myself until i wanted to go watch the oculus video where i talked to palmer about how 30 fps gaming is pathetic yeah how cool was that for you that was really cool that was awesome um i like the trip yeah probably before that the highlight of the trip was control vr which no one is watching um but then but then i got to talk to palmer which is actually really really cool speaking of things um people should people should watch the shows the show's kind of over at this point um asus north america so we just had uh we had a video that we created for asus that they just launched on their channel so you guys should definitely go check it out oh put it all the sound hold on where is it there we go there we go here we go i'm posting it in the twitch chat right now a couple people are saying that they watched it thanks guys i appreciate it it's getting less views than our like totally unknown game indy content which is like oh no that's not the one that oh people are saying they watched your video okay the one that i'm posting is um me and luke having a night battle over the opportunity to uh to to like win a notebook so it's like it's kind of it's kind of funny which is funny because we both ended up with them yeah i never realized that part of the story line that's awesome what is this all right thanks for watching guys you know okay oh okay we should we should like in the stream do our intro thing in the stream and then start up an after party afterwards because that's what we did last time and i know they probably didn't but i heard taryn plotting we don't have any water this week we need we have moldy twinkies oh my god okay we definitely have moldy twinkies and minecraft weapons this could legitimately hurt someone yeah okay we're prepared you're more prepared than me it's good like actually damaged all right guys thanks for watching we'll see you again next week bye