PS5 release is in “Spring 2025.”
I’m just having a little fun speculating. It’s effectively fresh exposure three times in one year. Whether intentional or not, that can’t hurt.
(Not saying it’ll be nominated for GOTY necessarily. But it should get a few nominations in general.)
I am genuinely astounded when folks don’t seem to remember F2P games exist and were dominating the industry before GamePass was even a thing. Just wild levels of obtuseness.
Thanks for transcribing.
Was this Tim person not alive during video rental stores?
Just like video rental stores, GP takes away from game sales because people rent the game to try it instead of buying it.
Just like rental stores, it gets people to try games they normally wouldn’t have tried at their full price tag.
Just like rental stores, it encourages people to buy the game if they fall in love with it.
Just like rental stores, It’s guaranteed income for the developer/publisher when featured at the store/GP. For those that don’t recall, these stores would buy at least one copy of interesting games per location which resulted in a minimum amount of sales which help developers and publishers. If your game was more sought after then each location would get multiple copies. Sometimes dozens for the most popular titles. In the same manner GP pays developers/publishes up front.
Rental stores were not perfect but they weren’t destructive at all. The console market grew in that era and they weren’t the cause of developers or publishers shutting down.
Maybe that person is new to the gaming industry and isn’t familiar with the concept. We’re getting to a point where some of these people appearing on these podcasts were born in the late '90s and things like video game and movie rentals were on their way out in the late-2000s, when these folks were 10 years old. And that’s when Netflix’s online ambitions were ramping up so maybe their parents didn’t take them to the rental store.
Remember the good old days, when we still had movies and TV to watch? Back before Netflix destroyed the entire business?
Now we have to sit around telling each other folktales every evening.
Good grief. Where do people even come up with this stuff?
I really would like if they just added an option for this.
Ironically Tim is one of the older guys on KF. Blessing is younger and sometimes his takes on anything older than like N64 can be a little loopy. Or he’s just never heard of it.
This looks really cool and I’m totally on board with it, but I’m scratching my head a little at why the trailer just makes it look like a third person action game, and the tweet from Shinobi has to explain that it’s actually a Mass Effect like RPG?
Why not just show what the game actually is? What are they afraid of? 
That’s how all of these games show off as, look at any mass effect, Dragon Age, Cyberpunk, Witcher trailer. They all show it as an action game.
I hate that. 
Even after Witcher, Baldur’s Gate, we still have to have every RPG marketed like an action game, then an interview with the creators afterwards to assure us that “No guys, it’s really an RPG, we promise, we just have to make the trailer hide that because the dumdums don’t like it”
That strategy worked out great for Veilguard btw.
Going live
So apparently Xbox had their worst November in the US since 2006. Not hard to understand since they didn’t even try (no global discounts like Sony). I’m surprised they aren’t at least trying to push some hardware in the months that matter, even at a loss. Really doubt those PS5 100$ discounts come cheap for Sony either, could help get some more GPU in more houses.
At this rate within a year Series hardware sales will be almost irrelevant and we’re barely at the halfway point in the generation. I understand the play anywhere push but I somehow doubt they are gaining more from it than the market share they are losing in consoles.
Last temple in Ocarina of Time!
Spirit Temple best temple.
GOD I LOVE THAT GAME.
Not directly an Xbox information, but for people playing in Europe, I don’t know if you know but usually eneloop AA rechargeable batteries are praised for their longevity.
The disadvantage is their price, but I discovered that the mother-company of eneloop have launched a new battery mark this year, “itson”, the 2000mah AA rechargeable itson battery especially have the same specification than standard eneloop (for example, with respect to the stricter test protocol norm of 2017, they both reach a maximum of 600 cycles of recharge). The advantage of itson is, because it is a new name, it is for the moment half the price of a eneloop battery.
It is a little discovery, if you don’t believe me don’t hesitate to see the mother company website (aps advanced power solution) and the datasheet/Amazon page of the two batteries 
https://x.com/vgtgamingnews/status/1869424171056607574?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
I love some good old aged milk.
I think it’s clear where there focus is. I don’t think console expansion is on the table. This will probably only further accelerate the “This is an Xbox” program or Xbox everywhere. I’m thinking they might have a bigger Direct next year with probably announcements of some of those PlayStation third party exclusives. My guess is we get Stellar blade , Zenless Zero and maybe Lego Horizon on Game Pass.