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THANK YOU Brentie! That really means alot, and we are all very excited for next week! It's gonna be a fun time! We are gonna be looking for you in the chat next week!

@@PodcastPXN I will be looking out for that.

Thank you!

Wait a minute shitting on WHO??

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I am with you on the multiplayer from TLOU... I never got into it either. Although I was intrigued by the stand alone game idea. Hopefully Naughty Dog can get back on track with their next game.

Unfortunately that's the way they positioned it. It shouldn't be that way 😢

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lmao. Thank you for your support on this wonderous announcement :D

Hell yeah! I'm very excited to dive into it at some point today once I finish doing the weeks of laundry and unpacking from vacation 😭

It will be interesting to see how the industry changes and adapts to the Live Service games because it's seemingly clear that something needs to be done to make them launch in a better state. Also, the industry has already changed so much in it's (relatively) short existence and I don't think Live Service is necessarily the end goal for all devs.

@@PodcastPXN I don't think I agree with your first sentence here. The market is what decides what needs to be done, not "games media" (no offense). Live Service games that launch slightly buggy are not deterring the market from being there day one on many of these titles. The public doesn't seem to care. Games media likes to exaggerate these problems while the public is more than happy to play through them, or wait a week or two to be ironed out. You have to wonder what single player is doing wrong if so many gamers don't care about perfectly polished launches. I do agree with your last sentence though. Some developers are happy being in the pond...but each year it seems more and more likely that the Ready Player One Live Service future is a reality and the companies that carve out their space in Live Service will dwarf companies that are happy selling to SP gamers. I actually think the XBox Showcase was horrible for this reason and Phil Spencer is being outmaneuvered by PlayStation with their GAAS initiative. South of Midnight is not a needle mover...Fairgames, Concord, and Marathon may be huge hits. I enjoyed your podcast. Keep it up!

@@bigbox1431 Maybe I mis-spoke, but I was not intending to mean games media is what is deciding where the market is going, just that the game industry as a whole. From everything I have personally seen from my feeds, many people are frustrated with the broken launches of many of these live service games as well as some developers that are seemingly being forced to make live service games from publishers in order to get more ongoing profit. Many decisions publishers make are solely dedicated to what is most profitable for them rather than what's best for the game. Also, as far as Phil Spencer being "out-manuevered" by Sony for GAAS, I don't think I agree with that either. Phil has had the approach of GAAS with many of their recent Xbox titles with Redfall, Halo Infinite, Grounded, going back to Sea of Thieves, etc. They have been willing to invest in live service and it hasn't paid off. In my opinion, Phil is learning from Sony's major success with single player games by showing us a bunch of single player games on the way to supplement these services including Starfield, Fable, Avowed, South of Midnight, Clockwork Revolution, etc which all look rad. It's hard to ignore the success Sony has had with 1st party single player games and point to their GAAS that they are just starting as outmanuevering everyone else. I think the jury is out on that until we start seeing what those Sony GAAS games look like. I appreciate your comments! Thank you for listening & watching!

@@PodcastPXN There's actually a few notable differences between Phil Spencer's Live Service games push (Redfall, Halo Infinite, Grounded, Sea of Thieves) and Jim Ryan's. I haven't heard anyone in the industry address this... 1. In 2022, PlayStation announced with Bungie, that they'll be creating a "Live Service Center of Excellence". Devoting teams of people to the study and expertise of the largest, fastest growing segment of the medium will pay dividends for PlayStation. We already saw that initiative put Naughty Dogs Factions on ice, but that also means Fairgames, Concord, and Marathon got cleared for takeoff. 2. Historians will look back on 2018 as the year of the Live Service paradigm shift. Fortnite became the biggest console game in console gaming history and we saw about 8+ Battle Royale titles make gobs of money. Battle Royale taught us how important social, open world, long arc multiplayer is. The era of the arena shooter (Halo Infinite) drew its last breath ~2018 and the rise of big open world multiplayer arrived. The multiplayer games you listed under Phil Spencer were all greenlit and scoped during the final years of the arena shooter era. Jim Ryan saw the paradigm shift as soon as it happened and went full speed in that direction immediately. That kind of aggressive leadership doesn't seem to be happening for XBox. I know XBox is going to have more big games down the road but Jim Ryan is no longer greenlighting games like Clockwork Revolution, Avowed, South of Edin etc...because they don't move the needle in terms of marketshare or revenue. It's also quite clear that they will have much more difficulty standing out in the market as AA titles. Not sound strategy when players now have access to dozens of games (subscription, f2p, backlog). I think Jim Ryan is putting on a masterclass in terms of strat. Phil Spencer looks a little lost imo.

😂... You don't wanna know how many hours I put into that game during the first couple years it was out

That's probably the greatest console game of all time. Numbers don't lie.

@@bigbox1431 I can appreciate that and you are right, numbers don't lie. I made the comment mostly based on my own likes and I don't like Fortnite but it doesn't change the fact what you mentioned is accurate and I can accept that. (but I still don't like it - lol)

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Yep, I do not know final fantasy. Unfortunately, I can't know literally every franchise in existence to its fullest.

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yo! :D

We only have some fun Gex references later in the show in the topic of the show. In the last 25 minutes or so of the show!

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Thank you Brentie! 💙

Thank you!

Thank you!!!!

What's up?! Thank you for the kind comments as always! 😁

Thank you!! You'll have to join next week's episode to support RauwRo running the show as I will be out next week! -Daniel

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Thank you!!

Thank you!!

THE THINKER Do you have a source for that? I've not seen anywhere that he has said anything like that...

@@PodcastPXN when im off work I'll send it to you

THE THINKER Possibly! I am the Xbox centric guy on the podcast and I think it provides a cool perspective to have all 3 on there with varying viewpoints to discuss everything. We are always welcome to hearing from everyone in the live show! We read out your comments on the live show Wednesdays at 8pm Eastern time... And we are giving away a free t-shirt to people who come participate in the chat during the show! We would love to hear from you in the comments on our next live episode! -Daniel

"You people"... I'm not sure what you're implying here but we are fans of all platforms, hence the name of our podcast. Also, what you are saying is factually incorrect. Almost every publisher this gen is making a free upgrade to next gen if you own the current gen equivalent. 2k and now Remedy with Control are the exceptions not the rule. Also, last gen TONS of publishers supported $5 or $10 upgrades, not $60 ones. There are many innacuracies in your statement and I suggest you do some more research. All three of us love all three platforms and just want the best consumer decisions to be made.

No, I believe his point was that Japan used to be a MUCH larger powerhouse (and they are an extremely densely populated country) and they have fallen off a little bit in recent years due to mobile gaming. Also, neither of us pretended to know business, we are just stating our opinion that The Last Of Us did not need a sequel. And after the leaks, it just confirms that I didn't want a sequel. What they have done to the story in Part 2 is criminal after an unbelievable story in the first game.

ArsenicSteel00 I'm genuinely confused by this comment...We were talking about how good Schreier is at his job, and let's not get this wrong, he does his job well. He reports on issues within the game industry which should never be looked down on. He also reports on rumors and scoops for games we haven't heard about which is exciting as well. We were not talking politicly whatsoever, but the man just went to work for one of the Democratic people who ran for president... And has mostly democratic political views if you follow what he says on Twitter so you saying he isn't is silly.

I appreciate the feedback. I will try to take those comments going forward... Timestamps are a possibility, it just requires a lot more time to invest to do those but I may try that as a test to see if it generates any more interest. Thanks for watching/listening!