Episode 63 - Gamescom was good

I think people will be updating their hardware much more slowly because like an honest honest to god a a nvidia gtx 1590 granted high-end card it's the highest end card it costs as much and this is the joke it it costs the same as the model number which is five thousand ninety dollars

Hello, and welcome to the Business of Video Games podcast.

I'm Fernando Arizzo, and I'm joined, as always, by Shams Jorjani.

Hey, Shams.

Hello.

Shams, you are in...

Well, it's not the opposite of Sweden, because I guess the opposite of Sweden, if we flip the globe over, would be like New Zealand or something.

New

Zealand, yeah.

You're in Spain.

I'm in Spain.

i'm on a bit of a paternity leave because uh biology decided that we should have a second kid and swedish uh cultural norm says i should go on paternity leave and i agree with them

did biology decide that that makes you sound like a passive actor shams i don't think that's where babies come from buddy

there was a spreadsheet there was one cell i was listed under it as a donor

Well, nature took its course, and now she shams beautiful families in Spain for a while.

And also, it was Gamescom last week.

You and I got to hang out.

Yeah.

I was about to say, TMI, what is this podcast about? What

is this? Well, you know, you can't have business without business, if you know what I'm saying.

Okay.

So today's episode is about Gamescom because we actually skipped an episode because we couldn't get our schedules to work because we were so busy heading into Gamescom.

It was a very busy Gamescom for both of us.

So the idea for this episode is to talk a little bit about that, how that went and kind of some, as we say in Swedish, trend spawning, which means scouting for trends.

Oh, right.

Yeah, exactly.

So we'll

talk a little bit about that.

trends and stuff like that and we'll see where we go from there