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Hello, everybody.

Welcome to episode 913 of the Video Game Outsiders podcast and one of your host, Michelle Madison, Gamer Tide Coastal, Michelle.

And I, of course, am your John Jacobson. Hi. Hi. Joining us, we have the game store guy, CCGame CEO. What's up, Kevin? If you guys don't know, Kevin owns a game store. He's the game store guy. He's the game store guy. He are like, what's GSG? He's the game store guy.

If you don't know, he used to have a show on our app.

Now, our app is going away. So if you want to keep up with Kevin, follow him on YouTube. It's CCGame CEO, right? Yep, yep, YouTube.com for us less CCGGGEL. And Kevin's getting edgier. He's getting edge year.

Yes.

That's right.

Yeah, I'm going to get into more doing a lot of like some culture wars stuff.

Yeah, a lot of nipple jokes and stuff.

Yeah, a lot of like some culture wars.

Scat jokes and stuff.

Yeah, a lot of nipple back.

Just related to video games. I'm keeping it related to video games. But when stuff comes up, I'm going to maybe dive into that a little. All right. So catch Kevin there. And then, I mean, Kevin, there's a lot going on.

I mean, you're a game store guy.

You sell Xboxes.

I do.

Are people coming in saying, what's going on with Phil? Is this stuff dead? I'll tell you, there is something going on because you cannot get an Xbox at the moment. And it's mainly... Game pass fever? No, I think they're just not manufacturing them for some reason at the moment. I don't know if it's because of the tariffs or whatever, but it, like, none of my distributors have them. It is nearly impossible to get a new one at the moment. Now, people do trade them in and I sell, used ones all the time, but I cannot get new ones in stock right now, and I've never seen it go. Are you, is this like a, Michelle, is this breaking news? I mean, maybe. He's got a little tip here. I think there is, but I think it's because they're just not producing them. Probably with, you know, that price hike and everything, they just really cut back on the production of them. Right. So. A lot of people were trading them in because it was a good price, right? You were given like $4. Yeah, you still get a good price because you can't get them new. Interesting. Yeah, they're still trading them pretty hard. But are they do the Xbox fanboys have they lost the fever? Are they saying this is bullshit? What is an Xbox? I just have a PlayStation kind of a thing.

Is that happening? Not really.

No, I still think, like, especially for me, like, they're still, they're still popular in my area quite a bit because game passes, it's a good deal. It's a good deal for customers. So a lot of people, you know, it's a game pass machine. They want to get as many free games as they can, and it's a good deal for them.

Right.

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