Minecraft Steve crushes Sakurai's Spirits

2020 Episode 30 October 2, 2020

Nintendo announced their next big fighter to the Super Smash Bros Ultimate roster and it is none other than Minecraft Steve! And also Alex, Enderman, and Zombie. But mostly Steve! In the announcement video, Masahiro Sakurai seemed more than a bit upset at the addition, even throwing Nintendo itself under the bus hinting they almost forced him to do it! Cyberpunk 2077 developers CD Projekt Red has repeatedly stated they would not be forcing crunch on their employees. Well a year later, it’s all a lie! In a recent statement, and with much regret, the studio heads announced that for the next six weeks leading up to the launch of the game everyone would be pulling six-day work weeks to get the game across the finish line. The Xbox Series X is in the hands of some lucky industry folks and we now know just how fast it is at running last generation games. And it is very very fast. But is this enough to convince everyone to upgrade to the new hardware over Sony’s PlayStation 5? Speaking of Sony, Insomniac Games announced that they had recast the facial motion capture actor for Peter Parker in their upcoming remaster of the PlayStation 4 hit Marvel’s Spider-Man for the PlayStation 5. Fans, of course, were not happy about this at all! And of course don’t forget to stick around for listener questions and thanks for watching Inside Gaming Presents: Send News! 00:00 - Intro 00:44 - MineCraft Comes to Smash Bros. Ultimate 10:25 - CyberPunk 2077 and CDPR Crunch 26:27 - Xbox Series X Load Times 36:14 - Early xCloud Impressions 37:44 - Spider-Man's Face 47:57 - Listener Questions More podcast episodes here! https://link.chtbl.com/IGPodcast Or buy our shirt! https://is.gd/u3xCtA OR follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/briangaar http://twitter.com/DarthBurrit0 https://twitter.com/Charalanahzard https://twitter.com/KdinJenzen http://twitter.com/InsideGaming SOURCES [YouTube] - Minecraft comes to Smash Bros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaDhtEcX1TM&ab_channel=Nintendo [Kotaku] Cyberpunk 2077’s crunch problem https://kotaku.com/report-cyberpunk-2077-developers-will-be-crunching-de-1845220746 The Xbox Series X is super fast https://www.theverge.com/21458254/microsoft-xbox-series-x-load-times-performance-gameplay-preview [Polygon] Spider-Man face controversy https://www.polygon.com/2020/10/1/21496811/spider-man-remastered-ps5-actor-fan-reaction-marvel-insom…

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Comments

Akamaru01

5 years ago

I've seen people talk about Sakurai being displeased about Steve but like.... I did not get that impression at all? Like he's tired in general I am sure, and Nintendo might have a say or push in adding characters, but I also think that if he didn't want to do it it would not have happened. The line about Nintendo and magic probably has some truth in regards to detached executives, but was probably meant as a joke for the most part? From what I saw he seemed excited to work with Minecraft the IP, and knew what he wanted to do to make something special, but also knew it would be difficult to do, and yet it still happened. And I know this was filmed before today's video talking more about the character but there is clearly a lot of love put into introducing Steve especially to make the decision themselves to go in and make changes to the stages. Maybe I'm wrong? Idk but I don't think he's nearly as down about it as some people are making it out to be.

Dr_Jirou_Takahashi

5 years ago

@Akamaru01 lol...........

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