Tim says "Actually the digital version IS better. The SSD, it loads better." Then two seconds later they're saying "Yeah, you're not playing games on discs. That disc is just a key." Can't make this stuff up 😂
Rare Ubisoft W. Awful takes from you guys with physical media. 1. Discs often install faster than download speeds (yes, there is data on them - unless ur COD) 2. Don't have to commit to SEVENTY dollar purchases if u dont like it, can trade/sell 3. Easily borrow games, especially for games you dont want to spend SEVENTY dollars on 4. Games delist. I just installed Horizon 3 on my Series X for some peak. If I didnt have the disc, I cannot buy it on the MS Store
@@8bitdee 1. If you run out of space, it'll be faster to reinstall a disc game 2. Yeah, let me know when Mario Odyssey is on Steam. Or let me wait years for Spider-Man 2 and spend the cost of a PS5 just to keep my specs up to date 🙃 3. Literally had a friend try Yakuza by borrowing 0, another friend recently borrowed FF7 Remake to see if he would like it (now hes gonna buy Rebirth physically), another friend borrowed some of my Switch games. We exist. 4. Y'all really don't care about history? Preservation? Comparing installments in a series to see what changes, how things improve, etc? The newest entry ain't always the best y'know...
I'm with Tim. I'd honestly be surprised if the next generation Xbox or Playstation have a disc drive built in. Optional peripheral, sure. But not built in.
Seeing Bobby Kotick and John Riccitiello being booted from the games industry is the best news for employee's and consumers. This is the best news this week
We seriously need to take a look in the mirror as an industry before just bending over and letting companies kill physical media. There are serious concerns about game ownership, preservation, and corporate consolidation of power that will only lead to more and more control and choice being ripped out of the players' hands. I love that Tim is one of the few exceptions, but in general a lot of games media doesn't seem to care, or even sing the praises of an all-digital future, possibly in part because they have the convenience of new games being sent to them digitally. But until the games industry gets louder about preserving physical media, it's only going to get worse for all of us until it's too late.
@@blackraven85_1there is still a sizable portion of people who will not to be able to enjoy games in an all-digital future, largely because of lack of good internet access. I l think we should be viewing this almost like an accessibility issue.
I dont see how anyone can say they wont take cod off of Playstation cuz its too much money, but they think they take some of the studios off the cod development train. Cod needs all these studios to release a cod every year. You take them away, there wont be a cod every year. I dont think youre looking at it logically
Didn’t Blessing and Andy just crap on the idea of Disney buying EA, which would’ve had no competitive impact on the gaming market since Disney is not currently a publisher in the space, but here we’re all going to celebrate corporate consolidation in which Xbox removes one of their competitors and makes the industry much less competitive as a result?
Xbox will treat the roll out of Activision games on Game Pass like Nintendo has treated the rollout of old Mario Party and Pokemon on Nintendo Switch Online.
You do realize that the game is installed off the disc onto the SSD just like if you downloaded right? Physical is actual ownership with options for the consumer. DL only is pro business because they control everything and gain more profit. consumers don't get those savings and lose options.
I felt so embarrassed hearing Tim say something so stupid with his whole chest. "Digital loads faster" then agrees with Bless that the disc is just a key.
The only benefit as far as storage is concerned is being able to pre-load and only need to unpack what's there when the game releases. If you use a disc, it's going to take more time and you're not getting it the hour it releases. On Xbox Series, I suppose you can also switch between multiple games you own that are paused and a disc isn't needed for them.
@@BoomSlang001 That is such a small benefit in the long run. I think most would prefer deals on games and trading games over being able to preload and save an hour.
In parts of the country, let alone the rest of the world the internet is no where near fast enough to go all digital. Tim is talking so hard out his ass!
I think they should keep the Activision and Bethesda names. Create a competition between the two and ensure future max effort for the best branch in Xbox Game Studios.
Doomsdayers: kicking and screaming about a all digital future. Meanwhile… PC players: buying are 1000th steam game we aren’t gonna play with a ToS that says in case of steams demise we will lose all access to our games. You pheasants will be fine. Unless your ISP is third or second world. Sorry for your loss then. I truly feel for you.
Tim being so stuck on the Ubisoft cloud rights element of this deal has been a funny running joke, but it's weird that no one he ever discusses it with has ever just said "Xbox and Ubisoft have a better relationship than you realize." They check all the boxes that were needed to get the deal through, and Xbox is clearly highly convinced that Ubisoft won't burn them through their rights ownership in the future. It's that easy lol, Ubisoft wasn't some random name that came out of a hat.
@@KingJohnMichael How does that contradict what I said? Unless I'm mistaken, they aren't the only European -based company that could've fit the bill so that's just one of those "checks all the boxes" factors that I mentioned already.
@@OriginalBoondocksXVIII I'm constantly shocked how people who spend years reporting on the games industry still have no idea how it works. Like how blessing only realized how many studios are involved because someone tweeted it this week. Mutherfucker you been reporting about this for a year!
I'm honestly with Bless on his plans tonight. Just gonna watch RUclips. I have a staycation coming up, i'll play video games then XD Regarding the Activision deal finally closing, I think I'm missing something here. One of the arguments mentioned online for it is that the games will be available to more people. What does that mean? Haven't most of the titles under this company been multi-platform already? Now they're all gonna be exclusive to Xbox and PC with some exceptions like the CoD deal with PS and whatever they want to do with Nintendo. How is this reaching more players? This kind of consolidation isn't good for the consumer and competition in the long run I feel. Can someone explain this?
Its just a nonsense argument that Microsoft used to push this through. They really mean putting Activision games on more platforms (basically the cloud services that no one uses), but not really the total userbase of those platforms. This deal actually locks out the two largest userbases in gaming (excluding mobile) so its not really making games available to more people.
The deal isn't good for *PlayStation* consumers, but it's good for everyone else. Xbox and PC players get Activision's catalog on Game Pass, Nintendo players finally get Call of Duty again plus whatever else Xbox decides to port there (they have a history of bringing smaller 1st parry games there like Ori), and mobile players will have a lot more options available through cloud streaming. From a PS player's perspective, though, I can understand the confusion, since you're the only group that loses out.
I hate to say this, but Tim is wrong. When criticizing activism for how they handled COD. Ultimately numbers don’t lie as a gamer. I might’ve wanted to see a lot of franchises under the Activision Van or but what made them the money? What made them the powerhouse. They are now it was advancing the way they did. It was focusing on the hit titles that did it just draw in gamers, but drew in, a crowd outside of the hard core. Every year COD is the best selling game that year unless you see a GTA or an elder scrolls title any other year COD kills it. Not only that they’re at the top of the list multiple times. Need to remind you gamers that other studios would kill for those numbers. They would kill for half of those numbers for 1/4 of those numbers for 1/8 of those numbers. One other note about Microsoft, is it having triple the number of studios S play station it’s not about the number of studios you have because the studio could technically have five people it’s about the number of people you have a radio. How many people do you have making video games for you Look at one of the most prolific studios out there the guy who makes fortnight that’s just one studio but it’s killing it making more money than several studios combined. How is that possible if it’s just one studio simple return on investment. That one studio is able to make a lot of money with the Contant get credit. That’s ultimately what you want a studio that produces a lot of money with the Contant it delivers.
PlayStation all day, controller was better plus you get movies when you beat it with a guy, found out Bam Maragera Filmed at my highschool, back before he blew up with jackass.
Tims completely incorrect on the physical disc needing internet to install and the difference between digital and physical it's insane. While it's not every game, there's some that you don't need to be connected to the internet to just play the game. Obviously you don't get a day one patch but that should go out to devs, maybe don't settle on hoping a day one patch fixes your bugs that you missed before setting the master disc to be finished? Also the statement that digital loads faster is complete BS. There's often no difference and if there is it's incredibly minuscule and isn't even worth bringing up. Fuck all digital, fuck cloud, fucking streaming your games. If I can buy it physical I'm getting it physical, and if the next consoles don't have physical options I'm not getting them.
Here's another we didn't get codes for games entitlement. Did you guys not see what happened to EuroGamer? Stop saying anything out in the open and expecting codes, again. You're not special
it's finally over. now we can stop talking about it. but who are we kidding, we will have all the same discussions whether games will be exclusive or not while it is obvious that they will be exclusive, apart from COD. but nobody cares about COD, right? right?
We wont move past this any time soon. It will be back in the spotlight when microsoft inevitably closes studios down (there is no way they can sustain that many studios on xbox's current revenue stream and gamepass isnt growing and their traditional game sale model has taken a huge dip since gamepass). It will also come back up once the Xbox leadership changes and we get a more profit orientated Xbox that will increase gamepass prices and push to stop putting CoD on other platforms (probably including PC as they already stated they would have preferred to not have to do day one on PC if they didnt need to). It will be in the spotlight when xbox announces (if they ever revive any of these legacy IPs) Crash or Spyro as exclusives... we wont see how bad this deal is until a few years down the line
@@jaynordiaz4609 Re: your Game Pass and traditional game sale model points, didn't Starfield top sales charts during it's early access period before the game even went on the service, and then continued to stay up on the sales/player charts on Steam even after the game became available on Game Pass? They've also mentioned it's their biggest launch ever, superseding Skyrim. Also I really don't think Game Pass growth is going to stay static, not with an influx of all of these studios whose games will hit the service. They've said they feel like they've reach all they're bound to on console, but that doesn't account for potential PC growth.
@@readysetpanic that was bethesda, but none of their other games or studios have had that success. Hell, Forza Horizon 5 had a player base of 10 million on launch, but that didnt translate to sales. Bethesda is the exception not the rule. Im happy to hear you believe that Gamepass will grow, but it hasnt even with Bethesda dropping Starfield, and I dont think Activision will move the needle. CoD isnt going exclusive and I dont think many gamers will just switch over to xbox or gamepass just for call of duty when they have to subscribe to a service that they wont probably use... spending a one time fee of 70 bucks on a system you already prefer over a recurring 17 bucks a month is still saving them money
@@jaynordiaz4609 Same green team to me, but I agree that at this point Starfield could be considered an outlier, but that doesn't mean it's success can't be converted into sustained momentum if Xbox manage to continue releasing big title games at a more sustained clip, which they've largely been unable to do until very very recently. Dropping a big AAA game every quarter to the subscription like they've been threatening to do is a marked difference to what the service has been until now (which has still been a pretty good deal IMO). We'll see how it goes, I just can't imagine there being no traction with such an influx to the service, provided they market the hell out of it.
@readysetpanic that's a big if... they couldn't do it on a consistent clip since like gears 3... I can't see them doing it with this many studios. At most we will see their impressive smaller, which I love... but they just don't have the infrastructure to bring out a polished AAA experience like sony or nintendo... they can get there, but I dont think 40 studios is the way to do it, especially when you now have the task of trying to clean up activision and try to move studios back from CoD support studios, at a time when many of the studios talent that had original ideas and were not just working on one title have all left. This is going to be a painful period for xbox with trying to get cohesion and manage this many studios. I won't be surprised if we see 30 to 40 percent of these studios close at some point in the next 5 years
Blessing takes are constantly beyond ignorant. You been reporting on this merger for a year and only realized how big it was because someone tweeted it this week? Jesus christ that's some lazy reporting. And if you're going to talk about physical vs digital sales maybe spend 5 mins doing some research before the episode.
@@darrionrobinson8553 Activision games are very important not only call of duty this deal mostly will make Sony in trouble because most gamers play call of duty on console and PC
52:59 this argument has been debunked. While it is true you are getting a better version digitally with all the updates, 99% of games are still on the disc. That 1% are games that refuse to compress their files or want to make sure the game can be controlled digitally and not resold. You can play new games with ease straight off the disc, occasionally you might run into bugs but you can still play them.
Tim showing once again that he's really not much of a Nintendo fan. He doesn't play any Xenoblade games to know that Monolith Soft's name is featured prominently and all fans are aware of that. He's never really played Kirby besides Forgotten Land, fans also know those are made by Hal Laboratories. He's only really played and beat 2 Fire Emblem games, but again fans know that's developed by Intelligent Systems. So on and so forth. Your average Joe also has no clue who Naughty Dog or Sucker Punch or 343 Studios are.
@@CheefChaos 99% of normal people don't even remember that Naughty Dog even worked on those games, and it's been in so many different hands since then. Crash Bandicoot also wasn't even THAT big selling around 6 million each.
@@CheefChaos Where's not in the 1990s anymore, it's 2023. Even if normal people were into gaming at the time they probably don't remember a small fact of who the original game developer of Crash even was, especially now after Activision's ownership.
Naughty Dog is featured on HBO series. It’s a way more known quantity than you give it credit for. And stop gatekeeping what people can say they’re a fan of. Like all of Nintendo’s lineup isn’t for me, and I just don’t play those titles; however, the ones that I do connect with hit way more often than not and I’d consider myself a fan of them as a whole due to consistent quality. Just because you go deeper doesn’t make your opinion or like for something any more valid or important than somebody else’s.
@@TheLoops73While you're in the mood to speak for other people, could you talk to my deadbeat Dad? I haven't in months, and barely at all in years. Thanks! I'll send you his contact info.
Fully agree, been listening to KF since the beginning, but I believe it's unfortunately time to move on and find another regular gaming shows news. Between these pointless comments, Berret constantly interrupting as a producer, and blessing continuous murdering of the word Duffy and "you know" repeated 5 times per phrase, it's incredibly hard to enjoy nowadays, at least for me. I also miss Kevin. Wish them the best but ye just not for me anymore
Weak TV year? The Bear? Beef? Succession? Ted Lasso? I feel like we live in two different worlds Blessing
Beef was so damn great
As soon as Blessing said that, opened the comments since i k ew this would be here XD
Sounds like a whole lotta mid
They mentioned almost if not all of those as soon as he said it, and then he walked that opinion back. What more do you want from him lol?
We always do blessing opinion are usually wrong
Tim says "Actually the digital version IS better. The SSD, it loads better." Then two seconds later they're saying "Yeah, you're not playing games on discs. That disc is just a key."
Can't make this stuff up 😂
Serie A is pronounced "SAIR-ee-ay Ah"
Rare Ubisoft W. Awful takes from you guys with physical media.
1. Discs often install faster than download speeds (yes, there is data on them - unless ur COD)
2. Don't have to commit to SEVENTY dollar purchases if u dont like it, can trade/sell
3. Easily borrow games, especially for games you dont want to spend SEVENTY dollars on
4. Games delist. I just installed Horizon 3 on my Series X for some peak. If I didnt have the disc, I cannot buy it on the MS Store
Very good points but are they really awful takes when the proof is in the oudding when it comes to digital sales
@@KingJohnMichael for how long tho
@@8bitdee
1. If you run out of space, it'll be faster to reinstall a disc game
2. Yeah, let me know when Mario Odyssey is on Steam. Or let me wait years for Spider-Man 2 and spend the cost of a PS5 just to keep my specs up to date 🙃
3. Literally had a friend try Yakuza by borrowing 0, another friend recently borrowed FF7 Remake to see if he would like it (now hes gonna buy Rebirth physically), another friend borrowed some of my Switch games. We exist.
4. Y'all really don't care about history? Preservation? Comparing installments in a series to see what changes, how things improve, etc? The newest entry ain't always the best y'know...
I'm with Tim. I'd honestly be surprised if the next generation Xbox or Playstation have a disc drive built in. Optional peripheral, sure. But not built in.
Seeing Bobby Kotick and John Riccitiello being booted from the games industry is the best news for employee's and consumers. This is the best news this week
The football (soccer) quiz was both funny and harrowing at the same time.
You two should definitely review Sonic Superstars. It's like a two hour game.
Though I would be curious to know the difference in physical games areas in stores outside of California.
We seriously need to take a look in the mirror as an industry before just bending over and letting companies kill physical media. There are serious concerns about game ownership, preservation, and corporate consolidation of power that will only lead to more and more control and choice being ripped out of the players' hands. I love that Tim is one of the few exceptions, but in general a lot of games media doesn't seem to care, or even sing the praises of an all-digital future, possibly in part because they have the convenience of new games being sent to them digitally. But until the games industry gets louder about preserving physical media, it's only going to get worse for all of us until it's too late.
Companies? The crowd has decided to go digital and that voice has been heard 😂
it's too late. People voted with their wallets. Digital won in a landslide victory with 96% of the vote.
@@blackraven85_1there is still a sizable portion of people who will not to be able to enjoy games in an all-digital future, largely because of lack of good internet access. I l think we should be viewing this almost like an accessibility issue.
That doll is just The Flat Stanley Project.
I dont see how anyone can say they wont take cod off of Playstation cuz its too much money, but they think they take some of the studios off the cod development train. Cod needs all these studios to release a cod every year. You take them away, there wont be a cod every year. I dont think youre looking at it logically
2023 best TV show = One Piece
I've owned a 4k oled TV for years and I've never been able to stream 4k videos and who knows when I'll be able. :(
Didn’t Blessing and Andy just crap on the idea of Disney buying EA, which would’ve had no competitive impact on the gaming market since Disney is not currently a publisher in the space, but here we’re all going to celebrate corporate consolidation in which Xbox removes one of their competitors and makes the industry much less competitive as a result?
Xbox will treat the roll out of Activision games on Game Pass like Nintendo has treated the rollout of old Mario Party and Pokemon on Nintendo Switch Online.
You do realize that the game is installed off the disc onto the SSD just like if you downloaded right? Physical is actual ownership with options for the consumer. DL only is pro business because they control everything and gain more profit. consumers don't get those savings and lose options.
I felt so embarrassed hearing Tim say something so stupid with his whole chest. "Digital loads faster" then agrees with Bless that the disc is just a key.
The only benefit as far as storage is concerned is being able to pre-load and only need to unpack what's there when the game releases. If you use a disc, it's going to take more time and you're not getting it the hour it releases. On Xbox Series, I suppose you can also switch between multiple games you own that are paused and a disc isn't needed for them.
@@BoomSlang001 that's all true, but Tim said "Digital loads faster because the SSD." That's just not a thing.
@@davidgonzales9039 You're right, and I didn't see your comment. I was trying to find some truth and positives for the consumer.
@@BoomSlang001 That is such a small benefit in the long run. I think most would prefer deals on games and trading games over being able to preload and save an hour.
In parts of the country, let alone the rest of the world the internet is no where near fast enough to go all digital. Tim is talking so hard out his ass!
I think they should keep the Activision and Bethesda names. Create a competition between the two and ensure future max effort for the best branch in Xbox Game Studios.
Doomsdayers: kicking and screaming about a all digital future.
Meanwhile…
PC players: buying are 1000th steam game we aren’t gonna play with a ToS that says in case of steams demise we will lose all access to our games.
You pheasants will be fine. Unless your ISP is third or second world. Sorry for your loss then. I truly feel for you.
Tim being so stuck on the Ubisoft cloud rights element of this deal has been a funny running joke, but it's weird that no one he ever discusses it with has ever just said "Xbox and Ubisoft have a better relationship than you realize."
They check all the boxes that were needed to get the deal through, and Xbox is clearly highly convinced that Ubisoft won't burn them through their rights ownership in the future. It's that easy lol, Ubisoft wasn't some random name that came out of a hat.
@@KingJohnMichael How does that contradict what I said? Unless I'm mistaken, they aren't the only European -based company that could've fit the bill so that's just one of those "checks all the boxes" factors that I mentioned already.
@@OriginalBoondocksXVIII I'm constantly shocked how people who spend years reporting on the games industry still have no idea how it works. Like how blessing only realized how many studios are involved because someone tweeted it this week. Mutherfucker you been reporting about this for a year!
We are truly, finally, getting rid of Bobby! This is truly the best part of the acquisition
I'm honestly with Bless on his plans tonight. Just gonna watch RUclips. I have a staycation coming up, i'll play video games then XD
Regarding the Activision deal finally closing, I think I'm missing something here. One of the arguments mentioned online for it is that the games will be available to more people. What does that mean? Haven't most of the titles under this company been multi-platform already? Now they're all gonna be exclusive to Xbox and PC with some exceptions like the CoD deal with PS and whatever they want to do with Nintendo.
How is this reaching more players? This kind of consolidation isn't good for the consumer and competition in the long run I feel. Can someone explain this?
Its just a nonsense argument that Microsoft used to push this through. They really mean putting Activision games on more platforms (basically the cloud services that no one uses), but not really the total userbase of those platforms. This deal actually locks out the two largest userbases in gaming (excluding mobile) so its not really making games available to more people.
Absolutely agree with both of your comments.
The deal isn't good for *PlayStation* consumers, but it's good for everyone else.
Xbox and PC players get Activision's catalog on Game Pass, Nintendo players finally get Call of Duty again plus whatever else Xbox decides to port there (they have a history of bringing smaller 1st parry games there like Ori), and mobile players will have a lot more options available through cloud streaming.
From a PS player's perspective, though, I can understand the confusion, since you're the only group that loses out.
@fantasythinkerfan ori are the only two games they ported to Nintendo and not sony... its not a history of doing this.
I hate to say this, but Tim is wrong. When criticizing activism for how they handled COD. Ultimately numbers don’t lie as a gamer. I might’ve wanted to see a lot of franchises under the Activision Van or but what made them the money? What made them the powerhouse. They are now it was advancing the way they did. It was focusing on the hit titles that did it just draw in gamers, but drew in, a crowd outside of the hard core. Every year COD is the best selling game that year unless you see a GTA or an elder scrolls title any other year COD kills it. Not only that they’re at the top of the list multiple times. Need to remind you gamers that other studios would kill for those numbers. They would kill for half of those numbers for 1/4 of those numbers for 1/8 of those numbers.
One other note about Microsoft, is it having triple the number of studios S play station it’s not about the number of studios you have because the studio could technically have five people it’s about the number of people you have a radio. How many people do you have making video games for you Look at one of the most prolific studios out there the guy who makes fortnight that’s just one studio but it’s killing it making more money than several studios combined. How is that possible if it’s just one studio simple return on investment. That one studio is able to make a lot of money with the Contant get credit. That’s ultimately what you want a studio that produces a lot of money with the Contant it delivers.
Neversoft's Spiderman and THPS are N64 games to me. I don't eve associate them with PlayStation lol.
PlayStation all day, controller was better plus you get movies when you beat it with a guy, found out Bam Maragera Filmed at my highschool, back before he blew up with jackass.
Can't wait to not own any media I buy because it's digital only. Stupid.
Tims completely incorrect on the physical disc needing internet to install and the difference between digital and physical it's insane. While it's not every game, there's some that you don't need to be connected to the internet to just play the game. Obviously you don't get a day one patch but that should go out to devs, maybe don't settle on hoping a day one patch fixes your bugs that you missed before setting the master disc to be finished?
Also the statement that digital loads faster is complete BS. There's often no difference and if there is it's incredibly minuscule and isn't even worth bringing up.
Fuck all digital, fuck cloud, fucking streaming your games. If I can buy it physical I'm getting it physical, and if the next consoles don't have physical options I'm not getting them.
Here's another we didn't get codes for games entitlement. Did you guys not see what happened to EuroGamer? Stop saying anything out in the open and expecting codes, again. You're not special
it's finally over. now we can stop talking about it. but who are we kidding, we will have all the same discussions whether games will be exclusive or not while it is obvious that they will be exclusive, apart from COD. but nobody cares about COD, right? right?
We wont move past this any time soon. It will be back in the spotlight when microsoft inevitably closes studios down (there is no way they can sustain that many studios on xbox's current revenue stream and gamepass isnt growing and their traditional game sale model has taken a huge dip since gamepass). It will also come back up once the Xbox leadership changes and we get a more profit orientated Xbox that will increase gamepass prices and push to stop putting CoD on other platforms (probably including PC as they already stated they would have preferred to not have to do day one on PC if they didnt need to). It will be in the spotlight when xbox announces (if they ever revive any of these legacy IPs) Crash or Spyro as exclusives... we wont see how bad this deal is until a few years down the line
@@jaynordiaz4609 Re: your Game Pass and traditional game sale model points, didn't Starfield top sales charts during it's early access period before the game even went on the service, and then continued to stay up on the sales/player charts on Steam even after the game became available on Game Pass? They've also mentioned it's their biggest launch ever, superseding Skyrim. Also I really don't think Game Pass growth is going to stay static, not with an influx of all of these studios whose games will hit the service. They've said they feel like they've reach all they're bound to on console, but that doesn't account for potential PC growth.
@@readysetpanic that was bethesda, but none of their other games or studios have had that success. Hell, Forza Horizon 5 had a player base of 10 million on launch, but that didnt translate to sales. Bethesda is the exception not the rule.
Im happy to hear you believe that Gamepass will grow, but it hasnt even with Bethesda dropping Starfield, and I dont think Activision will move the needle. CoD isnt going exclusive and I dont think many gamers will just switch over to xbox or gamepass just for call of duty when they have to subscribe to a service that they wont probably use... spending a one time fee of 70 bucks on a system you already prefer over a recurring 17 bucks a month is still saving them money
@@jaynordiaz4609 Same green team to me, but I agree that at this point Starfield could be considered an outlier, but that doesn't mean it's success can't be converted into sustained momentum if Xbox manage to continue releasing big title games at a more sustained clip, which they've largely been unable to do until very very recently. Dropping a big AAA game every quarter to the subscription like they've been threatening to do is a marked difference to what the service has been until now (which has still been a pretty good deal IMO).
We'll see how it goes, I just can't imagine there being no traction with such an influx to the service, provided they market the hell out of it.
@readysetpanic that's a big if... they couldn't do it on a consistent clip since like gears 3... I can't see them doing it with this many studios. At most we will see their impressive smaller, which I love... but they just don't have the infrastructure to bring out a polished AAA experience like sony or nintendo... they can get there, but I dont think 40 studios is the way to do it, especially when you now have the task of trying to clean up activision and try to move studios back from CoD support studios, at a time when many of the studios talent that had original ideas and were not just working on one title have all left.
This is going to be a painful period for xbox with trying to get cohesion and manage this many studios. I won't be surprised if we see 30 to 40 percent of these studios close at some point in the next 5 years
Blessing takes are constantly beyond ignorant. You been reporting on this merger for a year and only realized how big it was because someone tweeted it this week? Jesus christ that's some lazy reporting. And if you're going to talk about physical vs digital sales maybe spend 5 mins doing some research before the episode.
The amount of capping
Every time I hear the digital convo I just think: we are willingly barreling straight into the cyberpunk future culyberpunk warned us about.
Team Hydrossity
Can we get the Halloween opening updated to current gen consoles?
will this is not good for Sony
Nah sony still bing chilling
@@darrionrobinson8553
Activision games are very important not only call of duty this deal mostly will make Sony in trouble because most gamers play call of duty on console and PC
52:59 this argument has been debunked. While it is true you are getting a better version digitally with all the updates, 99% of games are still on the disc. That 1% are games that refuse to compress their files or want to make sure the game can be controlled digitally and not resold. You can play new games with ease straight off the disc, occasionally you might run into bugs but you can still play them.
Super cool :)) 😅💋
Tim showing once again that he's really not much of a Nintendo fan.
He doesn't play any Xenoblade games to know that Monolith Soft's name is featured prominently and all fans are aware of that.
He's never really played Kirby besides Forgotten Land, fans also know those are made by Hal Laboratories.
He's only really played and beat 2 Fire Emblem games, but again fans know that's developed by Intelligent Systems. So on and so forth.
Your average Joe also has no clue who Naughty Dog or Sucker Punch or 343 Studios are.
Ehhh Naughty Dog built a brand name with Crash.
@@CheefChaos 99% of normal people don't even remember that Naughty Dog even worked on those games, and it's been in so many different hands since then.
Crash Bandicoot also wasn't even THAT big selling around 6 million each.
@@shinobus.2654 Crash marketing was huge and considering how gaming was still niche back then those numbers are big time.
@@CheefChaos Where's not in the 1990s anymore, it's 2023.
Even if normal people were into gaming at the time they probably don't remember a small fact of who the original game developer of Crash even was, especially now after Activision's ownership.
Naughty Dog is featured on HBO series. It’s a way more known quantity than you give it credit for.
And stop gatekeeping what people can say they’re a fan of. Like all of Nintendo’s lineup isn’t for me, and I just don’t play those titles; however, the ones that I do connect with hit way more often than not and I’d consider myself a fan of them as a whole due to consistent quality. Just because you go deeper doesn’t make your opinion or like for something any more valid or important than somebody else’s.
We don't care about your dinner plans..just get to the actual news
It’s fun to hear about what’s going on. It’s not like it’s the entire podcast just the first couple minutes
No, you don't care regular listeners do.
@@nateg452 I assure you they dont
@@TheLoops73While you're in the mood to speak for other people, could you talk to my deadbeat Dad? I haven't in months, and barely at all in years. Thanks! I'll send you his contact info.
Fully agree, been listening to KF since the beginning, but I believe it's unfortunately time to move on and find another regular gaming shows news.
Between these pointless comments, Berret constantly interrupting as a producer, and blessing continuous murdering of the word Duffy and "you know" repeated 5 times per phrase, it's incredibly hard to enjoy nowadays, at least for me. I also miss Kevin. Wish them the best but ye just not for me anymore