The Xbox Two + XboxEra!!! 😱 It's about time you got my man Jon aka Sik on there! Still waiting for an official Shpeshial Nick invite though. Not Nick forcing himself on the Podcast again! 🤣
Man this comment section for this podcast is a dumpster fire, bunch of angry twats Good Lord, unlike everyone else I actually appreciate all the hard work you 3 put in & bring to the community, thanks for all you do ❤
Rand keeps arguing about the handheld and he has good points but aside from points others made you just have to think about Japan. A handheld would certainly look more appealing in that region and the console sales are so low that anything could have a significant impact. Of course, only a handheld is not enough but they have made changes and now they have people with contacts and experience in the region to make a change over time, even if they never jump up from third place over there.
“I’m not buying a console for 1 game” Sorta feel like homie has said that about multiple games now, so it wouldn’t be 1 game lol. Every console I’ve ever bought was for 1 game.
@JezCorden @Rand_al_Thor_19 I really enjoyed this discussion. My only thing is who knows if new strategies (whatever they are) will work. That is why the discussion is so interesting. I do not think we know what will work.
Rebooting Halo’s story would lose so much of the loyal fans that have stayed since CE including myself. The story is not the problem. Just make a Halo CE remake to hype up the new crowd and after that continue with the current story for Halo 7 aka Halo The Endless. Launching Halo content complete (forge, co-op, enough maps, and modes) with a great story is all they need. People didn’t stop playing infinite because of the story or gameplay, they stopped playing because of no content. Also the Halo universe is so big that they don’t need to reboot it just to make a new story focused on new characters. Look at The Mandolorian for Star Wars as an example. They can make a third person action game set in the Halo universe maybe during Halo CE with new characters without needing to anger the loyal fans by rebooting the lore.
It’s funny that ppl were mad at IGN for being too honest about Suicide Squad lol. As for Xbox not bothering ppl about reviews hasn’t Rand said multiple times he heard from Xbox about his Crackdown review?
Jez, why do you agree it is a shame that Helldivers 2 is not on Xbox, but you are filled with rage when another media outlet says the same about Hellblade 2 not being on Playstation?
@@jez.c tbh my wording was a bit hyperbolic, but you seemed very angered by the article that mentioned "hellblade 2 should be on PS" when you discussed it on the normal XB2 podcast - followed by a tangent about the media bias against Xbox.
I will never take anything from xboxera staff seriously. By far the most toxic xbox community out there. Jesse Norris is easily the worst reviewer out. Jon is as bad as it comes. He worked for Xbox. He shouldn’t be pretending to be impartial.
The fact they reviewed Redfall and have it a 8.5 is seriously automatically makes you're opinions sus when talking xbox platform. They gave starfield a 9.5 or whatever.
@@cheeks3211 yep, They are so ridiculous their entire premise is to discredit PlayStation. A console I don’t own. However it is clear that PlayStation has been more successful. It’s just how they operate.
@@TiuliFrenarcPlayStation is successful not because they are better but because of incompetence of Microsoft. Phil Spencer is almost a scammer at this point
Do you guys ever reflect on the fact that you spend more time talking about discourse and gaming media and controversies than you do about games but you always say that you just love games and other people don’t seem to?
@@liamflan9553 I agree. I was simply commenting on Jez's assertion that running their own services/ storefront is expensive and that the margins aren't much better than selling on a 3rd party storefront like STEAM, EGS or PlayStation. If this was true and the cost of running their own services is too steep, why not drop it? 🤔 Truth is that Jez was just making an excuse as to why it makes sense for MS to put EGS & Steam on the next Xbox hardware because he wants to keep up the facade that their new direction is the correct one. It honestly doesn't make much sense unless you're putting your own services on the back burner. That's what Rand was trying to explain. At that point you aren't an Xbox ecosystem/ hardware, you're just a Device with an Xbox OS/ stripped down WINDOWS OS. Where everyone will buy their games on STEAM instead of XB Marketplace. It's a STEAM Box version of Xbox.
The Xbox Two + XboxEra!!! 😱 It's about time you got my man Jon aka Sik on there! Still waiting for an official Shpeshial Nick invite though. Not Nick forcing himself on the Podcast again! 🤣
Man this comment section for this podcast is a dumpster fire, bunch of angry twats Good Lord, unlike everyone else I actually appreciate all the hard work you 3 put in & bring to the community, thanks for all you do ❤
I just hope this rumored handheld will have a dock.
The same would be true for a handheld. It's not like that market has grown. The Steam Deck only sold 3 million in the same amount of years
This is quite the collab
Rand keeps arguing about the handheld and he has good points but aside from points others made you just have to think about Japan. A handheld would certainly look more appealing in that region and the console sales are so low that anything could have a significant impact. Of course, only a handheld is not enough but they have made changes and now they have people with contacts and experience in the region to make a change over time, even if they never jump up from third place over there.
“I’m not buying a console for 1 game” Sorta feel like homie has said that about multiple games now, so it wouldn’t be 1 game lol. Every console I’ve ever bought was for 1 game.
And they all come to PC anyways, so its never more than 1 at a time.
At that point just waiting makes sense
I bought my PS5 for a DLC
Everybody having everything everywhere is the equivalent to participation trophies lol
What?? Having access to all of your games anywhere you want is the equivalent to participation trophies? What are you on about?
Xbox is at least partially powered by Windows 11, considering the reported kernel-version
Yeah I think I misspoke there, it is powered by Windows 11 kernel.
@@jez.c I think it might be because the Xbox One released with a Windows 8 based OS (arguably like 4 different Windows 8 based OS')
@JezCorden @Rand_al_Thor_19 I really enjoyed this discussion. My only thing is who knows if new strategies (whatever they are) will work. That is why the discussion is so interesting. I do not think we know what will work.
Jiz said helldivers 2 should be on xbox for Sonys Sake🤣🤣🤣 idiot🤢
Rebooting Halo’s story would lose so much of the loyal fans that have stayed since CE including myself. The story is not the problem. Just make a Halo CE remake to hype up the new crowd and after that continue with the current story for Halo 7 aka Halo The Endless.
Launching Halo content complete (forge, co-op, enough maps, and modes) with a great story is all they need. People didn’t stop playing infinite because of the story or gameplay, they stopped playing because of no content.
Also the Halo universe is so big that they don’t need to reboot it just to make a new story focused on new characters. Look at The Mandolorian for Star Wars as an example. They can make a third person action game set in the Halo universe maybe during Halo CE with new characters without needing to anger the loyal fans by rebooting the lore.
It’s funny that ppl were mad at IGN for being too honest about Suicide Squad lol. As for Xbox not bothering ppl about reviews hasn’t Rand said multiple times he heard from Xbox about his Crackdown review?
Suicide Squad is not a horrible game as IGN claimed
38:50 So basically Phil should run his apology tours through the shill network next time 😂
Why does Randall keep bring up TrueTrophies? That's the least used site for PS trophy hunters...
To fit his bias
Xbox handheld with only Xbox os /games/GP
And windows cheap subscription OS/windows to have access to all PC store.
Definitely would love single player battle field. Especially if Ubisoft destroys ghost recon going 1st person.
Ghost Recon's DNA is 1st person
Doesn't sound like "the BIGGEST technical leap of a generation"... It won't be near the power of a Series S
Jez, why do you agree it is a shame that Helldivers 2 is not on Xbox, but you are filled with rage when another media outlet says the same about Hellblade 2 not being on Playstation?
When have I ever been filled with rage about this?
@@jez.c tbh my wording was a bit hyperbolic, but you seemed very angered by the article that mentioned "hellblade 2 should be on PS" when you discussed it on the normal XB2 podcast - followed by a tangent about the media bias against Xbox.
I think it is a slap in the face Xbox game should stay on Xbox Microsoft see a different
Nah wait and see. I think there will still be a lot of exclusives
@@liamflan9553Only time will tell.
I will never take anything from xboxera staff seriously. By far the most toxic xbox community out there. Jesse Norris is easily the worst reviewer out. Jon is as bad as it comes. He worked for Xbox. He shouldn’t be pretending to be impartial.
The fact they reviewed Redfall and have it a 8.5 is seriously automatically makes you're opinions sus when talking xbox platform. They gave starfield a 9.5 or whatever.
@@cheeks3211 my opinion or theirs? They gave starfield a 9.7. Which is insane.
@@TiuliFrenarc Sorry theirs. Yea a 9.7 for starfield and a 8.5 for an incomplete unplayable game called Redfall. Complete clown show.
@@cheeks3211 yep, They are so ridiculous their entire premise is to discredit PlayStation. A console I don’t own. However it is clear that PlayStation has been more successful. It’s just how they operate.
@@TiuliFrenarcPlayStation is successful not because they are better but because of incompetence of Microsoft. Phil Spencer is almost a scammer at this point
The XboxEra team is fantastic. I support them on Patreon.
The Xbox 2nd Era!
Do you guys ever reflect on the fact that you spend more time talking about discourse and gaming media and controversies than you do about games but you always say that you just love games and other people don’t seem to?
It's because gaming media is trash and it's time to get rid of all the entities that only care about clicks and never care about games
I'm with rand I don't see Microsoft vision. Hope I'm wrong
So then why not eliminate XBL and GAMEPASS if it's so expensive. Just become a publisher
Because it’s good to have competition
@@liamflan9553
I agree.
I was simply commenting on Jez's assertion that running their own services/ storefront is expensive and that the margins aren't much better than selling on a 3rd party storefront like STEAM, EGS or PlayStation.
If this was true and the cost of running their own services is too steep, why not drop it? 🤔
Truth is that Jez was just making an excuse as to why it makes sense for MS to put EGS & Steam on the next Xbox hardware because he wants to keep up the facade that their new direction is the correct one.
It honestly doesn't make much sense unless you're putting your own services on the back burner.
That's what Rand was trying to explain. At that point you aren't an Xbox ecosystem/ hardware, you're just a Device with an Xbox OS/ stripped down WINDOWS OS. Where everyone will buy their games on STEAM instead of XB Marketplace.
It's a STEAM Box version of Xbox.