Thanks for all the support!! Timestamps: Getting ready to go live 0:00 Intro and Housekeeping 7:36 New Darksiders game announced 32:52 Xbox 360 store shuts down and memories 43:00 Game informer shuts down 59:10 Bungie lays off more people 1:05:57 Playground Games new studio 1:26:40 Obsidian rumour new game and new blizzard game 1:36:10 Avowed delay rumour 1:46:30 Xbox gamescom plans 2:00:10 Xbox quarterly financials 2:09:28 Avowed officially delayed 2:57:10 Patreon Questions and Closing 3:05:36
I’m sorry but Jez, you’re living in a ms bubble. Xbox is literally losing console users if they’re failing to convert the Xbox one users in the same time period as last gen. Ps5 is keeping up with ps4 while already having a larger install base so your argument just falls apart there. In addition to users, the hardware would not be worth it for a company to make if adoption goes down every gen. It’s economies of scale, they can’t bring the cost down if they’re not selling a large quantity. At some point it’s not profitable to make. For Xbox they have a large first party now and not enough Xbox console users to sell their games to. Hence they have to go multiplat. But doing so Xbox is not making money from third party game sales. Specifically new games that are current gen only.
Timestamps Getting ready to go live 0:00 Intro and Housekeeping 7:36 New darksiders game announced 32:52 Xbox 360 store shuts down and memories 43:00 Game informer shuts down 59:10 Bungie lays off more people 1:05:57 Playground games new studio 1:26:40 Obsidian rumour new game and new blizzard game 1:36:10 Avowed delay rumour 1:46:30 Xbox gamescom plans 2:00:10 Xbox quarterly financials 2:09:28 Avowed officially delayed 2:57:10 Patreon Questions and Closing 3:05:36 Have a great weekend everyone 🎉
Damage control Jez. Hardware revenue down 40% is catastrophic. Having a huge player base (on PC and mobile and shit) doesn’t matter. If Xbox sales continue to plummet Microsoft will axe the Xbox console.
Low hardware sales is bad for Xbox/Nintendo/PS. I think the point is that it’s an industry issue where all platforms are dropping in sales. Furthermore, PS/Nintendo business strategy is solely reliant on hardware sales, whereas Xbox isn’t. That strategy for Sony is starting to change.
@@antoniobandaro Sony is dropping in sales bc of a stellar year last where they sold as many systems in one year that Xbox has all gen. Of course the sales will slow over the course of the gen but Xbox’s sales never even started to begin with. They’re selling worse than the Xbox one 🤷🏻♂️
@@holddamayo7474 They are declining, because all hardware sales are declining for all platforms. Why is AMD reporting huge % loss in chip sales? Don’t make excuses for a platform because of your bias. Sonys best year in sales (so huge total number) and a decline of 29%!?! That’s huge loss. True the Xbox sales are below Xbox One which isn’t good in terms of hardware sales. But you don’t need an Xbox, so it’s pretty good considering that: 60m vs 30m 🤷♂️ When Sony go PC day and date and put more games on Switch and eventually Xbox, what happens to PS5 sales? 🙃
@@antoniobandaro you’re the one letting bias’s cloud your judgement my guy. I’m just using facts and common sense not some bs marketing that Microsoft and their shill content creators spew daily. And even some of them are starting to say the next gen is probably Xbox’s last. Sony cares about selling the console bc frankly they need it to survive. Microsoft doesn’t need Xbox which actually hurts the console in the long run. Once the bean counters set their sights on Xbox division it started a death spiral for the console.
No one thinks 30% YOY plus 42% YOY equals 72% combined. This is an insane stance to take in defence of Xbox. Specifically speaking just of the console market, the series consoles are tracking behind both the 360 and Xbox one in terms of sales. This isn’t speculation. The data is public. Jez is usually reasonable but this is a very big reach.
The percentages are YoY and the situation is not great. Q4 2023 was down 13 percent, Q4 2024 was down 42 percent (even ms only predicted it to be down 15 percent last quarter). This means March - June sales in 2024 are 55 percent lower than March to June sales in 2022 (which weren’t great to begin with). If Xbox had a very strong start in sales this wouldn’t mean much but the fact that they’re dropping so much from a low amount is pretty bad. If Xbox console base flatlines at 35m it’s over for them as a platform holder (a place where third party want to port their games too). It doesn’t affect their publishing business since they choose where to port their games and sell them.
@@maxminy5634 couldn’t agree more. The publishing brand will continue to flourish. Publishing will land them both subscribers other console base players. There’s no downside. But as far as the “Xbox” of the Xbox brand, jez was well out of line here. 35 million would kill another console manufacturer.
You need to move people from last gen to current gen because, if you're on last gen you are not buying games only available on current gen, so lost sales.
I get the user base thing but like Rand said, one day these X1 users will have to upgrade it's inevitable and the odds aren't nearly in your favor to be the one they upgrade to especially with cross-play & etc.
This week’s podcast is going down to history. Jez reaches his true potential, plain schizophrenic and paranoid behaviour. You were always the flat-earthers, cheapskates, and ultimately peasants of gaming. However, four years into this generation, your expectations and predictions have gone so sour that you went straight up cuckoo in order to find an ounce of meaning in what is happening.
bruh. Jezz is spinning and damage controlling harder that matthew mcconaughey on Interstellar. It's just sad and pathetic. but hey, thats the life of a MS/Xbox Shill. Jez should use his super blogger powers to actually investigate Xbox financial performance. spoiler alert: Is shit today more than ever.
Only xbox could delay a game with the argument that it has too many games. Could you imagine a world where the xbox console had TOO many good games? It aint this one for sure
It's not that they had too many but that they have too many coming out at the end of the year close to each other. Most people don't have the time and some don't have the money. Movie studios do the same when another big movie is opening close to theirs.
@@Spartan_83the game was pushed because it isn’t ready, not because there is too many games. Xbox isn’t in the position to be delaying games, this year has been beyond empty.
@@Amearie I can only go off of what they said I'm not a developer and I'm not working on the game but all of obsidian games have a little jank to them anyway. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle they could probably release the game now if they wanted to but they've got like three games dropping in November It will be kind of stupid to not move one of them.
RAND!! YOU OWE US! YOU PROMISED YOUR COMMUNITY TO START USING A WEBCAM IF YOU GOT 100K SUBS! THAT HAPPENED BEFORE 2024... GOING ON 8 MONTHS LATER, YOU BOUGHT A NEW LEGIT PC, N YOU ARE STILL DODGING GOING LIVE!! YOUR SUBS WILL START GOING UP AGAIN WHEN YOU DO... KINDA WEIRD YOU HAVE ONLY GAINED 1K SUBS IN 8 MONTHS. DONT BE LAME, WE DID OUR SIDE OF THE DEAL, TIME FOR YOU TO GROW A PAIR N TURN ON YOUR CAMERA!
He knows he’ll get dogged for being overweight but it’s not like ppl think he’s some skinny dude or something idk why he don’t just rip the bandaid off. It’s so weird when he makes guest appearances on podcast and he’s the only one out of 5 without a camera
jez making excuses why wouldn't Xbox want people to buy there console upgrades? that's why they make them to sell and they make games exclusive to series s and X so less people buying the new box means less sells for those games
The best thing about the 360 to me, was the technological leap they gained from the previous gen consoles, which opened up much more advances in games, it was a time when games could impress you with new capabilities and the game Dev's could really open up their idea's in a way the gamer couldn't experience on the last Gen. For me it was the new hardware that got me excited for Xbox 360 and PS3 because I knew how much better games where going to be from the last Gen hardware. Sadly we have reach a point where games are just feeling like clones of each other and hardware has reached a point where it's all very similar, I am hoping Ai can help bring some advances in how we interact with games and the consoles moving forward.
I can see Marathon going exclusive. It's a perfect aesthetic match for PS5. Sleek, sexy, futuristic, mysterious. It's match made in Heaven. But obviously, I want it to come to Xbox too
The funny thing is with Redfall, I really like it. It launched like one of the worst games, really bad, but now that it's a more completed project, it's a really fun game, I enjoyed it a lot.
It takes time to make games. Especially now. They've barely even integrated ABK into their own company. The games showcases they've had in the past few years should inspire confidence.
"Xbox needs to do this," "Xbox needs to do that." Lmao no one cares what you think Xbox needs to do. Why do Sony fanboys and Xbox haters always watch Xbox podcasts?
Xbox has had an equal release of first party content to Sony at end of 2023. They are slated to have a lot more 1st party content than Sony this year and beyond with a roadmap to back it up. Xbox are releasing games and delivered on promises since 2019. What you smokin?
jez.. playstation hardware was down yoy because as sony stated before this year.. they released Spider-man 2 and sold pretty much more systems in 1 year than xbox had the entire gen up to that point. To sell more than they did last year would be unheard of. Nintendo is at the end of it's current life cycle with everyone waiting for the switch 2.. Xbox hardware has not been pushing units and it's declined from an already small number. Stop pushing xboxs decline as an industry problem.
PS has had a decline in sales, the same as Xbox and Nintendo (they are all down). This is proven by the fact they all report losses in sales and AMD in chips. A % of a smaller number to begin with is a smaller loss of sales. Xbox hardware sales aren’t good, but for a console you ‘don’t need’ it’s decent. Sony using SM2 as an excuse because they have no games this year isn’t a good one. Switch has sold to everyone who wants one. This is an industry issue otherwise why is AMD chips down so much?
@@antoniobandaronot by 42%. Xbox sales were already bad, idk how they halved it. The ps5 and Nintendo have been selling well and had some huge games to push sales and now it makes sense there is a decline because they have no big game. But Xbox had redfall last year and they still declined from that quarter. It’s impressive how bad they can manage the Xbox.
@@Amearie True 42% is a big number of sales decline and not good for Xbox, especially with a poor total to begin with. My point is that they are ALL declining, including Sony and Nintendo and even AMD have reported huge loss in chip sales. My other point is 42% of what? Sony reported 29% reduction in sales. It’s a % of a total sale or quarterly figure. So 29% reduction of a much larger number compared to 42% reduction of a much smaller number. Sony has a larger reduction of sales by number. But Xbox has smaller number of sales to begin with.
Wow Jez getting flustered over the Xbox console talk is not something I expected to hear lol. Jez very well knows that any company such as MS behind the scenes doesn’t have the mindset or operate with “oh well our hardware is down over 40% YoY, no biggie because revenue is strong in these other areas”. Lack of hardware growth is concerning because if hardware sales were stronger, the “other areas” that MS are doing well at, would be even better. Thats how most if not all these short sided companies operate. They generally don’t except lost anywhere & I’m positive Jez is very aware of that. On top of that, the optics doesn’t look good to the gaming public.
How can you have strong hardware sales when you constantly tell people you don't have to buy xbox and we don't care about xbox sales ? It's so stupid. They have done everything they can to sabotage the xbox consoles since the end of the 360 era. Stop putting games on pc stop putting games on ps5 and stop the day and date crap. Make people buy xbox for once. The 360 sold because you had to own one.
@@elvangulley3210 The thing is that many of these people are not migrating to PC or PS5. Some are but many are not. The PC business overall, not just PC GamePass, has stagnated. It doesn’t matter if a company tells you 500 times in a calendar year you don’t have to buy an Xbox because many people won’t listen. On top of that, compelling content will trump anything & the brand isn’t making it compelling enough to game on their hardware. Oh & don’t let them fool you about those MAU metrics.
MW3 zombies is actually a ton of fun and there's a ton of stuff to do and unlock Easter eggs to do.. missions nd story missions... I know at launch it wasn't that great,,but where zombies ended up is really good I'm having a blast with it.... I think the last two modes Infinity war did were very good DMZ and zombies both were great modes... of course Treyarch does it the best not as good as outbreak or round based,but for just throwing it in nd built it out to be a damn good experience especially... if you're jumping in now and never played it! there's so much to do,so many Easter eggs and fun stuff! In this title multiplayer is really good zombies turned out pretty decent and the campaign wasn't bad.... so for not jumping in until season 5 I'm having a blast cuz I am an ultimate subscriber plus they gave me like all the pre-order bonuses zombie ghost soap couple characters in gun skins and stuff,tons of free stuff looks like even free Cod points cuz somehow I have 2500 coins on my store LOL I didn't pay nothing Game Pass ultimate is the best!
I really really hope the new Darksiders game isnt done for a modern audience. When I was younger I loved Game Informer, but they have been a activist den since 2010. So I rejoice current day Game Informer is no more, all these by activist hijacked gaming media finally are going down, and they did it to themselves. They chased their audience away so there is no reason for venture capital to keep them afloat. The pandy did played a role but hasn't been the only problem, though I understand Jez always dances around certain industry topics. The same applies to the "crisis" in gaming, cause the truth is for a long time most games haven't hit their targets. Which again isn't weird considering the type and the quality of devs that made these gamers. I love you guys, but gosh I wished you two didn't danced around so many bushes in order that you dont upset your industry contacts/friends.
Don’t agree with Jez that Destiny is lightly monetized. They had a full paid expansion every year, plus a season pass you need to do the seasonal quests and tons of cosmetics.
Arkham Origins Blackgate is the game I missed picking up from the 360 online marketplace. I thought for certain I'd seen it at the store physically, but it turned out that was just a regular copy of Batman Arkham Origins. ARRRGHH!
Xbox should put their games on everything but Playstation and do what Playstation are doing, Marathon will 100% be pulled from Xbox. Xbox continues to be 'nice guy' and only hurt themselves
Jez said doesn't matter if they stay on Xbox one . But that mean all those peole can't play any new xbox games. Who wants all customers to stay on old hardware . Seems like jez damage controlling. How does hardware decline doesnt matter when they have to buy publshers just to get new users on paper
Xbox really needs to make a multiverse like game with all the IP they have now imagine a open world RPG with crafting farming adventuring taming story game with all the different characters and of course it has to be co-op
I am constantly amazed at the number of PS fanboys who troll this podcast. The fact that PS mau's are way down makes sense though, cause the fanboys are all too busy trolling to actually turn on their PS5's.😂 Hilarious.
Yeah it's across the board on Xbox podcasts. I see it on Defining Duke as well. It's honestly just kind of frustrating . I want to be able to talk about interesting/ funny things in the podcast but the comments just call people shills and talk about how screwed Xbox is
I really don’t get the 2.4 million car talking point. He’s earning a salary and he can spend that on whatever he want. Not only that but with 1300 employees that amount of money is not even significant. It wouldn’t have kept those people there. It’s just media clickbait nonsense.
GENTLEMENS !! Yer doing cheap popular news ? I don’t care about what anyone does with their money.But I do care about the value of their salaries.And I do care about what they do with a company's money.🤨
Valorant is 120 FPS on console, xbox one wouldn't be able to hit that and thus they would be at a huge disadvantage... there is no cross play for the same reason- they take the competitive side very seriously
Such a great show - again lol. Seems moot to repeat but keep it up. Literally the best show on the consumer market and very happy to be on Team Green - whatever the future of Xbox gaming looks like. Have a good one good folks!
Everyone remember the mantra xbox bad xbox very very bad. We will shit on xbox in every xbox podcast and get upvotes for it. Thats how this works. playstation Rulez
Hey man I know ppl in the comments be talking crap about Xbox but it’ll be ok it’s just gaming console. Try to find u a gf or someone to spend time with other than terminally online folks as yourself. Anyways cheers and keep your head up lil buddy.
Thanks for all the support!!
Timestamps:
Getting ready to go live 0:00
Intro and Housekeeping 7:36
New Darksiders game announced 32:52
Xbox 360 store shuts down and memories 43:00
Game informer shuts down 59:10
Bungie lays off more people 1:05:57
Playground Games new studio 1:26:40
Obsidian rumour new game and new blizzard game 1:36:10
Avowed delay rumour 1:46:30
Xbox gamescom plans 2:00:10
Xbox quarterly financials 2:09:28
Avowed officially delayed 2:57:10
Patreon Questions and Closing 3:05:36
I’m sorry but Jez, you’re living in a ms bubble. Xbox is literally losing console users if they’re failing to convert the Xbox one users in the same time period as last gen.
Ps5 is keeping up with ps4 while already having a larger install base so your argument just falls apart there.
In addition to users, the hardware would not be worth it for a company to make if adoption goes down every gen. It’s economies of scale, they can’t bring the cost down if they’re not selling a large quantity. At some point it’s not profitable to make.
For Xbox they have a large first party now and not enough Xbox console users to sell their games to. Hence they have to go multiplat. But doing so Xbox is not making money from third party game sales. Specifically new games that are current gen only.
Rand trying to speak some logic and Jez tap dancing like he's on broadway
Jez will spin anything
Rand is being realistic and rational about the Xbox hardware situation.
Jez is coping hard.
Nobody spins bad news like Jez
Jez would definitely win the gold in damage controlling if it was a sport
Timestamps
Getting ready to go live 0:00
Intro and Housekeeping 7:36
New darksiders game announced 32:52
Xbox 360 store shuts down and memories 43:00
Game informer shuts down 59:10
Bungie lays off more people 1:05:57
Playground games new studio 1:26:40
Obsidian rumour new game and new blizzard game 1:36:10
Avowed delay rumour 1:46:30
Xbox gamescom plans 2:00:10
Xbox quarterly financials 2:09:28
Avowed officially delayed 2:57:10
Patreon Questions and Closing 3:05:36
Have a great weekend everyone 🎉
mvp
Appreciate you!!!!
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Damage control Jez. Hardware revenue down 40% is catastrophic.
Having a huge player base (on PC and mobile and shit) doesn’t matter. If Xbox sales continue to plummet Microsoft will axe the Xbox console.
Hardware doesn’t matter then goes on mentioning hardware upgrades for Nintendo that have sold lol….low hardware sales is bad no need to play it down.
It’s not
Low hardware sales is bad for Xbox/Nintendo/PS. I think the point is that it’s an industry issue where all platforms are dropping in sales. Furthermore, PS/Nintendo business strategy is solely reliant on hardware sales, whereas Xbox isn’t. That strategy for Sony is starting to change.
@@antoniobandaro Sony is dropping in sales bc of a stellar year last where they sold as many systems in one year that Xbox has all gen. Of course the sales will slow over the course of the gen but Xbox’s sales never even started to begin with. They’re selling worse than the Xbox one 🤷🏻♂️
@@holddamayo7474 They are declining, because all hardware sales are declining for all platforms. Why is AMD reporting huge % loss in chip sales? Don’t make excuses for a platform because of your bias. Sonys best year in sales (so huge total number) and a decline of 29%!?! That’s huge loss.
True the Xbox sales are below Xbox One which isn’t good in terms of hardware sales. But you don’t need an Xbox, so it’s pretty good considering that: 60m vs 30m 🤷♂️
When Sony go PC day and date and put more games on Switch and eventually Xbox, what happens to PS5 sales? 🙃
@@antoniobandaro you’re the one letting bias’s cloud your judgement my guy. I’m just using facts and common sense not some bs marketing that Microsoft and their shill content creators spew daily. And even some of them are starting to say the next gen is probably Xbox’s last.
Sony cares about selling the console bc frankly they need it to survive. Microsoft doesn’t need Xbox which actually hurts the console in the long run. Once the bean counters set their sights on Xbox division it started a death spiral for the console.
No one thinks 30% YOY plus 42% YOY equals 72% combined. This is an insane stance to take in defence of Xbox.
Specifically speaking just of the console market, the series consoles are tracking behind both the 360 and Xbox one in terms of sales. This isn’t speculation. The data is public. Jez is usually reasonable but this is a very big reach.
Yea I’m pretty sure no one thinks like that at least o haven’t seen anyone on social media think that….Jez is bugging out wit that take
I was so confused by that statement. It’s hard to take Jez seriously when he says things like this.
People definitely do think like that. You'd be surprised how many morons have access to social media.
The percentages are YoY and the situation is not great. Q4 2023 was down 13 percent, Q4 2024 was down 42 percent (even ms only predicted it to be down 15 percent last quarter). This means March - June sales in 2024 are 55 percent lower than March to June sales in 2022 (which weren’t great to begin with). If Xbox had a very strong start in sales this wouldn’t mean much but the fact that they’re dropping so much from a low amount is pretty bad.
If Xbox console base flatlines at 35m it’s over for them as a platform holder (a place where third party want to port their games too). It doesn’t affect their publishing business since they choose where to port their games and sell them.
@@maxminy5634 couldn’t agree more. The publishing brand will continue to flourish. Publishing will land them both subscribers other console base players. There’s no downside.
But as far as the “Xbox” of the Xbox brand, jez was well out of line here. 35 million would kill another console manufacturer.
You need to move people from last gen to current gen because, if you're on last gen you are not buying games only available on current gen, so lost sales.
I get the user base thing but like Rand said, one day these X1 users will have to upgrade it's inevitable and the odds aren't nearly in your favor to be the one they upgrade to especially with cross-play & etc.
This week’s podcast is going down to history. Jez reaches his true potential, plain schizophrenic and paranoid behaviour.
You were always the flat-earthers, cheapskates, and ultimately peasants of gaming. However, four years into this generation, your expectations and predictions have gone so sour that you went straight up cuckoo in order to find an ounce of meaning in what is happening.
I know right. Playstation Rulez
Best 360 moment was the Halo 3 beta. So many Spartan Laser kills on High Ground.
I was really hoping Star Wars Outlaws was The Division in the Star Wars universe. It doesn't look like that unfortunately.
Jez is absolutely delusional
It's marketed as a Game Pass game because you get all the agents for free if you have Game Pass
Literally the only game I wanted this year was Avowed why can't they push something else
bruh. Jezz is spinning and damage controlling harder that matthew mcconaughey on Interstellar.
It's just sad and pathetic. but hey, thats the life of a MS/Xbox Shill.
Jez should use his super blogger powers to actually investigate Xbox financial performance.
spoiler alert: Is shit today more than ever.
I know right. Xbox bad Xbox very very bad!
@@wolfgod1011 oh, you are one of those who only parrots talking points. Use your brain¡¡¡ and stop listening to those clowns.
Almost all Rand Summerslam predictions were spot on
Only xbox could delay a game with the argument that it has too many games.
Could you imagine a world where the xbox console had TOO many good games? It aint this one for sure
It's not that they had too many but that they have too many coming out at the end of the year close to each other. Most people don't have the time and some don't have the money. Movie studios do the same when another big movie is opening close to theirs.
@@Spartan_83the game was pushed because it isn’t ready, not because there is too many games. Xbox isn’t in the position to be delaying games, this year has been beyond empty.
@@Amearie I can only go off of what they said I'm not a developer and I'm not working on the game but all of obsidian games have a little jank to them anyway.
I think the truth is somewhere in the middle they could probably release the game now if they wanted to but they've got like three games dropping in November It will be kind of stupid to not move one of them.
@@Echo__plex I forgot hellblade existed.
RAND!! YOU OWE US! YOU PROMISED YOUR COMMUNITY TO START USING A WEBCAM IF YOU GOT 100K SUBS! THAT HAPPENED BEFORE 2024... GOING ON 8 MONTHS LATER, YOU BOUGHT A NEW LEGIT PC, N YOU ARE STILL DODGING GOING LIVE!!
YOUR SUBS WILL START GOING UP AGAIN WHEN YOU DO... KINDA WEIRD YOU HAVE ONLY GAINED 1K SUBS IN 8 MONTHS.
DONT BE LAME, WE DID OUR SIDE OF THE DEAL, TIME FOR YOU TO GROW A PAIR N TURN ON YOUR CAMERA!
Just like Xbox, full of empty promises
its because he realises we will realise that he and crapgamer are the same person
He’s insecure of how he looks, we can’t really rush him into hopping on webcam. It’s something he has overcome on his own.
Just wear a mask then ‼️‼️
He knows he’ll get dogged for being overweight but it’s not like ppl think he’s some skinny dude or something idk why he don’t just rip the bandaid off. It’s so weird when he makes guest appearances on podcast and he’s the only one out of 5 without a camera
jez making excuses why wouldn't Xbox want people to buy there console upgrades? that's why they make them to sell and they make games exclusive to series s and X so less people buying the new box means less sells for those games
We needed to give you a breather to finished Hellblade 2. If you couldn’t get pass the first 30 minutes like Jez 😂 lol I kid
Still no cam after hitting 100k+ subscribers?!
The best thing about the 360 to me, was the technological leap they gained from the previous gen consoles, which opened up much more advances in games, it was a time when games could impress you with new capabilities and the game Dev's could really open up their idea's in a way the gamer couldn't experience on the last Gen.
For me it was the new hardware that got me excited for Xbox 360 and PS3 because I knew how much better games where going to be from the last Gen hardware.
Sadly we have reach a point where games are just feeling like clones of each other and hardware has reached a point where it's all very similar, I am hoping Ai can help bring some advances in how we interact with games and the consoles moving forward.
I can see Marathon going exclusive. It's a perfect aesthetic match for PS5. Sleek, sexy, futuristic, mysterious. It's match made in Heaven. But obviously, I want it to come to Xbox too
The funny thing is with Redfall, I really like it. It launched like one of the worst games, really bad, but now that it's a more completed project, it's a really fun game, I enjoyed it a lot.
Obsidian is one xbox studio where you don't have to worry about the output, its always goood
Xbox need to release some games and stop talking about it, Xbox has been promising and not delivering since 2019
It takes time to make games. Especially now. They've barely even integrated ABK into their own company.
The games showcases they've had in the past few years should inspire confidence.
"Xbox needs to do this," "Xbox needs to do that." Lmao no one cares what you think Xbox needs to do. Why do Sony fanboys and Xbox haters always watch Xbox podcasts?
Every part of that sentence is wrong
You say nonsense already have catalog of games 2024 amd 2025 so what are you talking about
Xbox has had an equal release of first party content to Sony at end of 2023. They are slated to have a lot more 1st party content than Sony this year and beyond with a roadmap to back it up.
Xbox are releasing games and delivered on promises since 2019. What you smokin?
jez.. playstation hardware was down yoy because as sony stated before this year.. they released Spider-man 2 and sold pretty much more systems in 1 year than xbox had the entire gen up to that point. To sell more than they did last year would be unheard of. Nintendo is at the end of it's current life cycle with everyone waiting for the switch 2.. Xbox hardware has not been pushing units and it's declined from an already small number. Stop pushing xboxs decline as an industry problem.
PS has had a decline in sales, the same as Xbox and Nintendo (they are all down). This is proven by the fact they all report losses in sales and AMD in chips.
A % of a smaller number to begin with is a smaller loss of sales.
Xbox hardware sales aren’t good, but for a console you ‘don’t need’ it’s decent. Sony using SM2 as an excuse because they have no games this year isn’t a good one. Switch has sold to everyone who wants one. This is an industry issue otherwise why is AMD chips down so much?
@@antoniobandaro Jez, is that you?
@@antoniobandaronot by 42%. Xbox sales were already bad, idk how they halved it. The ps5 and Nintendo have been selling well and had some huge games to push sales and now it makes sense there is a decline because they have no big game. But Xbox had redfall last year and they still declined from that quarter. It’s impressive how bad they can manage the Xbox.
@@holddamayo7474 Truth hurts 🤷♂️ Let me know when the feelings subside 🙃
@@Amearie True 42% is a big number of sales decline and not good for Xbox, especially with a poor total to begin with. My point is that they are ALL declining, including Sony and Nintendo and even AMD have reported huge loss in chip sales. My other point is 42% of what? Sony reported 29% reduction in sales. It’s a % of a total sale or quarterly figure. So 29% reduction of a much larger number compared to 42% reduction of a much smaller number. Sony has a larger reduction of sales by number. But Xbox has smaller number of sales to begin with.
Scary Statement by Jez, “PS5 and Series X are essentially still apart of the PS4/XboxOne generation”
Wow Jez getting flustered over the Xbox console talk is not something I expected to hear lol.
Jez very well knows that any company such as MS behind the scenes doesn’t have the mindset or operate with “oh well our hardware is down over 40% YoY, no biggie because revenue is strong in these other areas”.
Lack of hardware growth is concerning because if hardware sales were stronger, the “other areas” that MS are doing well at, would be even better.
Thats how most if not all these short sided companies operate. They generally don’t except lost anywhere & I’m positive Jez is very aware of that.
On top of that, the optics doesn’t look good to the gaming public.
How can you have strong hardware sales when you constantly tell people you don't have to buy xbox and we don't care about xbox sales ? It's so stupid. They have done everything they can to sabotage the xbox consoles since the end of the 360 era. Stop putting games on pc stop putting games on ps5 and stop the day and date crap. Make people buy xbox for once. The 360 sold because you had to own one.
@@elvangulley3210 The thing is that many of these people are not migrating to PC or PS5. Some are but many are not. The PC business overall, not just PC GamePass, has stagnated. It doesn’t matter if a company tells you 500 times in a calendar year you don’t have to buy an Xbox because many people won’t listen.
On top of that, compelling content will trump anything & the brand isn’t making it compelling enough to game on their hardware. Oh & don’t let them fool you about those MAU metrics.
Will Replaced make an appearance, that's also supposed to be released this year!
MW3 zombies is actually a ton of fun and there's a ton of stuff to do and unlock Easter eggs to do.. missions nd story missions... I know at launch it wasn't that great,,but where zombies ended up is really good I'm having a blast with it.... I think the last two modes Infinity war did were very good DMZ and zombies both were great modes... of course Treyarch does it the best not as good as outbreak or round based,but for just throwing it in nd built it out to be a damn good experience especially... if you're jumping in now and never played it! there's so much to do,so many Easter eggs and fun stuff! In this title multiplayer is really good zombies turned out pretty decent and the campaign wasn't bad.... so for not jumping in until season 5 I'm having a blast cuz I am an ultimate subscriber plus they gave me like all the pre-order bonuses zombie ghost soap couple characters in gun skins and stuff,tons of free stuff looks like even free Cod points cuz somehow I have 2500 coins on my store LOL I didn't pay nothing Game Pass ultimate is the best!
I really really hope the new Darksiders game isnt done for a modern audience. When I was younger I loved Game Informer, but they have been a activist den since 2010. So I rejoice current day Game Informer is no more, all these by activist hijacked gaming media finally are going down, and they did it to themselves. They chased their audience away so there is no reason for venture capital to keep them afloat. The pandy did played a role but hasn't been the only problem, though I understand Jez always dances around certain industry topics. The same applies to the "crisis" in gaming, cause the truth is for a long time most games haven't hit their targets. Which again isn't weird considering the type and the quality of devs that made these gamers. I love you guys, but gosh I wished you two didn't danced around so many bushes in order that you dont upset your industry contacts/friends.
Don’t agree with Jez that Destiny is lightly monetized. They had a full paid expansion every year, plus a season pass you need to do the seasonal quests and tons of cosmetics.
Rand would you ever work for Xbox and if so what would you want to do
1:46:55 Rand I am blaming you for Avowed's delay. It is totally your fault. You told Phil to delay that one and he listened. Damn you sir.😅
Hey guys 👋🏽
Lots of ponybots in these comments. Go fetch Gatorade or play Concord or something
Arkham Origins Blackgate is the game I missed picking up from the 360 online marketplace. I thought for certain I'd seen it at the store physically, but it turned out that was just a regular copy of Batman Arkham Origins. ARRRGHH!
Jez is starting to seem like a corpo plant
Xbox should put their games on everything but Playstation and do what Playstation are doing, Marathon will 100% be pulled from Xbox.
Xbox continues to be 'nice guy' and only hurt themselves
It wasn't 2025 the deal ended in June of 2024
Man Jez's delusions and copium when it comes to Xbox console hardware is next level.
If I have to hear about Elden ring or cyber punk again!!!!
How does hardware not matter, GTA6 is going to be the biggest game of the decade and is not on Xbox one, or PC
Thinking Twitter wasn't BS before with all sorts of false stuff being said is a little ignorant, guys.
Jez said doesn't matter if they stay on Xbox one . But that mean all those peole can't play any new xbox games. Who wants all customers to stay on old hardware . Seems like jez damage controlling. How does hardware decline doesnt matter when they have to buy publshers just to get new users on paper
Easy 'Army of Two' the first game. The 2nd was ok and the 3rd was terrible. One of favorite games and favorite memories.
1:20:30 Oh no! Marathon isn't coming to XB. Whatever will I do!😂
Xbox really needs to make a multiverse like game with all the IP they have now imagine a open world RPG with crafting farming adventuring taming story game with all the different characters and of course it has to be co-op
They need to focus on just releasing quality games on time first before anything.
What is Zenimax Online making?
I love games like vampire survivors we need more on Xbox and higher quality a diablo or wow game would be amazing
I am constantly amazed at the number of PS fanboys who troll this podcast. The fact that PS mau's are way down makes sense though, cause the fanboys are all too busy trolling to actually turn on their PS5's.😂 Hilarious.
Yeah it's across the board on Xbox podcasts. I see it on Defining Duke as well. It's honestly just kind of frustrating . I want to be able to talk about interesting/ funny things in the podcast but the comments just call people shills and talk about how screwed Xbox is
Xbox mau's are going to be way up because XBOX IS GOING 3RD PARTY🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@iftycent8 I know right Xbox very very bad
@@iftycent8I summoned a troll! Go back under your bridge sir, before the sun comes up and turns you to stone.
Quit dreaming and if you want the games just buy an Xbox. Simple.
I really don’t get the 2.4 million car talking point. He’s earning a salary and he can spend that on whatever he want. Not only that but with 1300 employees that amount of money is not even significant. It wouldn’t have kept those people there. It’s just media clickbait nonsense.
Shill
GENTLEMENS !! Yer doing cheap popular news ? I don’t care about what anyone does with their money.But I do care about the value of their salaries.And I do care about what they do with a company's money.🤨
Valorant is 120 FPS on console, xbox one wouldn't be able to hit that and thus they would be at a huge disadvantage... there is no cross play for the same reason- they take the competitive side very seriously
Jez is in complete denial here!
Such a great show - again lol. Seems moot to repeat but keep it up.
Literally the best show on the consumer market and very happy to be on Team Green - whatever the future of Xbox gaming looks like.
Have a good one good folks!
Next time use your real name Phil 🤣
@@iftycent8 Challenge accepted👌🏽🤣😎! Have a good one.
Man another delay.... if they delay 1 more game I've fully lost trust(even though I don't trust already really) in xbox
Rand dodging the questions... wtf is he rambling on about lol
They need to upgrade people beacuse EVERYONE will get a PS5 for GTA6...and then those players are no longer on xbox for probably the next 5+ years
I get jez point. but he doesn’t understand that Nintendo’s audience is way different than Xbox or PlayStation audience lol
Jez is on point. They need to invest more in the platform if they want it to succeed
Extremely happy that avowed is delayed. That combat is stiff as year old peanut butter
You assume a short delay will change core game play 🤨
@@ac1dflare937 you’re right 😤
Everyone remember the mantra xbox bad xbox very very bad. We will shit on xbox in every xbox podcast and get upvotes for it. Thats how this works. playstation Rulez
Hey man I know ppl in the comments be talking crap about Xbox but it’ll be ok it’s just gaming console. Try to find u a gf or someone to spend time with other than terminally online folks as yourself. Anyways cheers and keep your head up lil buddy.
@@holddamayo7474Thank you