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Overestimating GTA VI sales for fun and profit!

• 0:00 – Horse girls and ads in Spanish. It’s like the algorithm doesn’t even know me!
• 24:00 – Despite what venture capital would have you believe, GTA VI is NOT going to sell 85 million copies in two months
• 49:42 – Video game anthology Secret Level has it’s moments but overall fails to deliver

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen.  Music in the show includes “To the Top” by Silent Partner.  It is in the public domain and free to use.  Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

7:02 PMJared Knisely​​i watch the first episode of it thought it was weird

7:32 PMJared Knisely​i think 40 is a better number

7:37 PMaddictedtochaos​“Not a moron” is possibly a generous statement.

7:39 PMStarman99​I’ve beaten GTA 5 3 times. it’s brilliant

7:40 PMaddictedtochaos​Take Two would never give up Rockstar, they are the Golden Goose.

7:41 PMStarman99​I beat GTA 4 too. I’m Albanian and the villains are Albanian it was crazy

7:41 PMStarman99​Andrew that was the Gameplay.

7:43 PMcaleb723​​Phil Spencer walks onto stage wearing a Battletoads t-shirt though! Gamers love him

7:44 PMStarman99​Andrew if you made a “playing GTA 5 for the first time” video series it would do well.

7:44 PMaddictedtochaos​In fairness to Phil Spencer cutting thousands of jobs may not have been his call.

7:44 PMaddictedtochaos​I’ll buy you GTA V if you stream it.

7:44 PMStarman99​it’s a great game!

7:45 PMCollin Asmus​​Gearbox has not learned from that lesson with Randy Pitchford where they just put him as the ambassador for borderlands

7:46 PMcaleb723​I’m only invested in Microsoft’s success because I’m terrified they’re going to kill Doublefine now that they own (?) them

7:46 PMStarman99​wow look everyone loves the idea! I’m such a pillar of the community

7:46 PMaddictedtochaos​It isn’t super long, if you don’t try to 100% it.

7:46 PMStarman99​I think he will pick ending B

7:47 PMJared Knisely​​i think todd is good it, look at how many people he fools

7:48 PMStarman99​most female gamers aren’t actually gamers

7:49 PMaddictedtochaos​​There is speculation that Phil Spencer basically is not in control of Xbox anymore, after they spent $70 billion buying Activision.

7:50 PMStarman99​if you count candy crush lmao. but people who collect all the Riddler Trophies or spend 3 hours on Cuphead aren’t people playing Tetris on their phone

7:50 PMcaleb723​Phil Spencer hasn’t even finished Sky FC, slash his salary

7:51 PMCollin Asmus​​I believe it’s also made by the same guys who did love death and robots

7:51 PMSheekago​​Hey Andrew

7:53 PMaddictedtochaos​The Mega Man one was good, would watch a whole series of that.

7:54 PMJared Knisely​​40k one was good as well

7:56 PMaddictedtochaos​Bomberman was around 20 years ago.

7:57 PMSheekago​​Shadow Labyrinth, came out on Thursday

7:58 PMaddictedtochaos​Shadow Labyrinth, came out yesterday.

7:59 PMStarman99​sounds like the movie Free Guy

8:01 PMStarman99​Tekken had a cool netflix anime

8:03 PMStarman99​that’s the tekken one, it’s a big issue in the fandom but I don’t mind ot

8:04 PMStarman99​the CEO of matel is the villain of the Barbie movie