Xbox Bethesda Direct | Xbox Layoffs | Future of Halo | Scalebound & Gears Collection - XB2 251

foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you okay [Music] foreign [Music] what is going on everybody welcome to this well Xbox 2 podcast I'm one of your hosts Randall Thor 19 is going to be definitely a very interesting show with lots of opinions on this uh Beautiful January 20th episode 251 and hopefully my mic's not crackling nothing went wrong behind the scenes nothing went wrong behind the scenes like last week where OBS crashed and I was just basically as frustrated as you can possibly imagine we're here a little bit late uh but uh you know me and Jazz decided you know what Jazz you need to come in a little bit earlier you need to come in at about 1 30 but about 45 minutes before we start the show so we can get everything prepared just agreed so hopefully moving forward this show will start on time and with that I'm going to introduce my co-host the managing editor of Windows Central the one and only Jess Corden what's going on man for now for now looking at that media Labs like but yes hello Brandt how are you what a what a what a roller coaster week or two it's been we had a lot of a lot of positive news with with the developer direct and uh you know the the hype around that you could see redfall and then other games detailed finally and then this week it's been pain and sorrow and a glimpse at a very Grim year to come I guess so uh there's a lot of interesting rumors and myths flying around about what's going on but uh yeah we're gonna get into it with facts and research which is what I've been doing well that is not what I've been doing I have what have you been doing uh I've been playing some games reading some books you know doing all that stuff chilling while you love it while this storm's been going on with his feet up you're the journalist you're the one you're the one supposed to be getting all the sources and all and all the Deep Dives and everything my job is just to kick my feet up on on the couch cushions and then just enjoy I'm YouTuber baby all right YouTuber all right YouTube right yeah well yeah well that's that's what I've been doing I've been trying to trying to get get into all the stuff getting to the Bottom of Everything a lot of rumors a lot of speculation running Rampages tons of situation is running rampant I mean hopefully you can bring some much needed clarity to the situation much some much needed answers I know people are definitely uh being like what's going on uh we need we need some explanations but yes welcome to the Xbox 2 everyone uh if you could do a big favor make sure you hit the like button and subscribe if you're new almost at 91 200. we're getting there I've actually exceeded my goal for the month I I my plan was to hit 91 000 this month but already over that moving on I mean hopefully get to 100 000 this year and then Sean the Brie who did the whole redesign got the new logos although we I need to change the logo on Discord I just realized that it's my old one yeah I need to change that but uh he redesigned my YouTube banner and the Avatar redesigned the Xbox 2 stuff and you know as I said before we hit 100K most likely turned this into an on-camera podcast so I needed him to redesign that stuff so you know Sean just makes us look good like we don't nearly look as good as that Avatar or how he portrays us uh he makes us look like a million bucks and I want to thank him thank him for that so but we do have uh quite a bit of things to talk about this week Jess we have uh you know Xbox direct next week talk maybe a little bit about that I saw a lot of uh a lot of outlets talking about predictions uh uh I I see Paris is in chat one of the co-hosts of the excellent kind of funny x-cast where they talk about Xbox but uh you know one of one of my dudes snow bike Mike who I love and adore he kind of looks funny without his mustache ain't gonna lie Paris he kind of looks really funny yeah he shaved he's shaved off the stash he looks really funny but not only the kind of funny x-cast but IGN did predictions for the direct I thought that was an interesting thing to do considering Aaron Greenberg is being like there's only four games that are gonna be there so I'm like why are people making predictions so I figured I don't know maybe we'll talk about that briefly uh is Starfield coming really soon Jazz because one of official Bethesda accounts is saying it is you know obviously the Microsoft layoffs Xbox layoffs you know we'll talk about that talk everything you know about going on with the uh future of Halo I'm sure that'll be a big topic um scale bound rumors are back they will never end it would be the thorn in my side it seems didn't we didn't we talk about that last week no we we might have briefly mentioned we talked about it on Xbox two ultimate remember because we we swore our audience of Xbox two ultimate to secret when we talked about those things and nobody said anything because the people who listen to Xbox 2 ultimate who are subscribed patreon.com xb2 sometimes they hear things before you know things are things things come out just because it's just a free-flowing conversation that me and Jess had uh but yeah we didn't really talk about it on this show uh but our our buddy special knack he um he he made some waves this past week made some waves we'll talk about that and a whole bunch of other stuff uh so I'm excited to get into it uh but you know we're gonna get into some housekeeping really quickly and then we will get into the topic so please hit the like button and subscribe and this week we have a brand new sponsor to the Xbox 2 podcast and uh this week's sponsor is hellofresh so without fresh you get farm fresh pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep skip trips to the 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have just been just bringing up scale bound to constantly bringing it up because they know it was just kind of one of those things it's just like it it is Nick's fault it's I blame everything on special Nick I don't even know if it's list he's listening I don't even care if he is you know I'll drop by Xbox here I'll even Super Chat stuff to Xbox there but you know Nick yeah it barely ever comes by Xbox two barely ever super chats you know it's kind of this thing we have we're supposed to do that for each other you know oh man uh Sith Lord newest member of the channel appreciate you man enjoy all the emotes um we also have a member chat from dark siaya 41 months which is incredible it's a long time hey guys hope everyone uh hi guys hope everyone were the layoffs this past day we'll find a new story in the industry yep 41 months hope for lots more and do 2023 deliver I mean I hope so I got my fingers crossed knock on wood the 2023 is going to be a great year for gaming and for Xbox in particular uh they definitely need one after the uh you know the year they they put out in 2022 uh 2023 has to be better than that and it's I think it's I think it's going to be I think it's gonna be pretty good we'll see uh we have one from Dreadful Sean was Bethesda Starfield acquired to replace 343 Halos the flagship 343 has never really had a banger Halo game and is now becoming a shell of what they were I mean I don't think they were acquired with the idea of them replacing Halo simply because starfield's a game that's going to come out maybe get an expansion and live on but it's basically a singular release where Halos multiplayer lasts for you know a long time I I don't know Jess I don't think the idea of like Microsoft acquiring Bethesda was with it like okay we need a replacement for Halo so like they acquired in 2020 and it closed in 2021 before Halo infinite came out I'm sure Microsoft thought that Halo infinite was going to be successful I don't think that there were they were upright in Hilo with the view that it wouldn't be successful I mean and it's like it's like saying like you know why even try if your expectation is it's going to fail right but there's the Bethesda was just a case of like we have this opportunity and also Microsoft had worked really closely closely with them for a long time and Phil's a personal friend of pretty much everyone in the senior leadership team it just kind of made sense and it came along at the right time and all that kind of stuff I mean if you if and if you're any platform or publisher you'd want to buy Bethesda you know it doesn't the Halo doesn't even factor into it I don't think but there has been this narrative about high low and Starfield though because people noticed Rand that um Starfield is replaced Master Chiefs on the box of the Xbox series yeah X which is where like alone I put air poll on Twitter for you know feeding this a bit a little bit you know um where people were sort of discussing the possibility that Microsoft would you know try and I don't know sort of downplay Halo maybe in their marketing and our iconography for Xbox moving forward because of all the problems that the games had but I don't think that's going to be the case my masterchef's still iconic and yeah it's things are pretty dire right now if you're a Halo fan I'm not gonna lie but I don't think we're gonna be in a situation where Halo Halo is completely gone you know I'm gonna we're gonna talk about it more in depth later but the things I've got to say about Hilo are a little bit more optimistic than some of the stuff that's out there so well you since you brought it up about the box that was one of the topics I figured let's just dive into that right now Starfield announcement coming soon on the back of the box um people are telling me that like there's a new Xbox on video that just came out and they're saying in that video that you know it's coming first half of the year uh which you know they're they're still like saying in their marketing I know like people take what we say as like verifiable fact like both me and Jazz thought we could both see it coming at the end of the you know second half of the year which is by no means any truth to that outside of just our personal feelings because I don't have any information about you you've you've got to bet that it's launching before I mean whatever it's a 10 bet if it was a thousand dollar bet I would think twice about it but you can buy a lot of things for ten dollars okay sure sure enough um but I don't know when starfield's launching and neither does Jazz because if Jazz knew Jess decided he would write an article about it it would be all over there because the clicks would be insane so it's more just like a feeling rather than like any sort of more than like what we were talking about with the Showcase right this event where like we knew the event was coming and like we knew when it was coming and we knew when it was going to be announced because we have been hearing about it for over a month the Starfield thing I've been trying to like track down you know like information about Starfield but all the information about Starfield is all over the place it's all over the place it seems to be very fluid so you know uh but more particularly about the announcement coming soon is and people had sent me this was that uh Starfield dedicated event and release date reveal coming very soon says official account and obviously like you see this article you're like well well okay that's that's cool if an official account says this but it gets a little bit deeper than that so okay we have when asked about the release date the official Bethesda the official bethesda's official Latin American Instagram account chimed in with this response by saying quote very soon we will announce a release date we are preparing a special game event now we know that they're preparing a game event they said so during the developer direct announcement that there is one in the works and Starfield deserves one uh you know you have the Bethesda official Latin American Instagram account saying that you know the dedicated event in the release date reveal are coming very soon um what do you think jazz is should people take this to Heart uh should they just dismiss this because it's a you know different countries official account um you know where are you on all this when did that Xbox on thing happen uh somebody just sent it to me I believe it was nanopolymath shout out to Nano I know he's no he's watching he always sends me some cool stuff and I'm glad that he's back because he took he seemed to have taken a break like a lot of people sometimes you know social media uh I'm trying to load it up now uh they put out a video facts about Xbox's 20 20 23 exclusives you may not already know and they put this out 41 minutes ago um and it's a video that says uh here's Minecraft Legends for a minute those are motorsport red fall and I mean here's something about Starfield uh obviously I'm not gonna listen to it but he's telling me that in the DMS he's telling me that uh Xbox on just reconfirmed Starfield is launching the first half of 2023 and you know I know there's a lot of Mr Maddie plays who I respect greatly uh I watch all of his videos I you know he I think came out in defining Duke and said he had a source that told him possibly might be delayed to the second half of the year uh so yeah I mean what do you think about all this jazz well first of all I don't think Instagram social media manager knows for sure sure I would say so I wouldn't yeah I wouldn't put any stock in that article or that that analysis of that situation whatsoever that being said I have heard some things this week okay like kind of make me regret taking that bet really enough I should feel more happy that I took that bet then yes okay you should okay because I think actually I think this is already out there I think Todd might have said in an interview or something that the game's playable start to finish I've been speaking to someone who has been playing the game from start to finish and it is it's deep in the Polish phase you know it's not it's not a situation of like the game is content complete the game is content complete it's just in a Polish phase now and yes it's a big game it is a big game and I think I don't think that's I don't even think that's like a leak or Insider information I think that's that's public I think they said that in some interviews somewhere whereas live feature complete and they're just in this polishing phase now and like I was I my pessimism was kind of like because I when I don't know things I kind of I kind of just I kind of default to the glasses half empty right oh or as as I said on on another show um The Glass isn't just half empty it's smashed on the floor and you step in the glass that's my sort of default when I don't know the information right when I do know the information it's sort of like the clouds parting and the nice the nice little sun rays come flooding in and give give you the warmth that warm glow of the sun on your skin and that's kind of how I feel about Starfield now brand okay I'm feeling the glow I'm feeling the glow you're feeling you're feeling it now okay even though yeah so even though I don't believe any of the Social Media stuff that's out there that is launching the first half of the year I don't think they know for sure and personally I don't think Bethesda has put a hard launch date on the game yet I'd agree with you I'd agree with you I don't I I don't think that I think they have a window but I don't think they have a hard date yeah yeah they've got a window for the they've got a window to launch it before June and I think I will I think they will get out before June wow this is this is folks this is a complete 180. a complete I am shocked to my core Jazz sir I mean it's not it's you know you know what's gonna happen soon enough we're gonna have the one and only sloth you're about to get sloth right well it's again it's just speculation but just you think that don't stop sloth it's not slothable don't slot this apparently yeah it's I uh you know I mean the the part of it that is less than speculation is the part where I don't think they've got a hard launch date in mind yet no I don't think I don't think I have got a hard launch date I don't think we're at that point yet I think that I think they're giving themselves enough leeway to be like we need a little bit more time they want this to be masterpiece they want this to be the magnum opus you know um Jodeci says info-based jazz versus feelings based Jazz 100 here yes we were definitely in feelings-based jazz and feelings based as last year said that 100 Starfield is locked in and not getting delayed that was feelings-based jazz is not smart how much are we to trust feelings-based jazz or feelings-based Jeremy oh man but anyway yeah like feeling feelings-based jazz is a lot less accurate than feelings-based Rand who runs runs feeling based predictions mysteriously uh heavily accurate a lot of the time but yeah this is why I don't I don't like facts based Jazz facts um feelings based chairs I much prefer facts based jazz which is why I like you know I I ended up in this job I didn't I don't like I don't like reading rumors and speculation and and and you know feelings I gotta know know this stuff man I have to know everything all the time I have I'm just nosy you know I'm a nosy guy and I have to know now I know I feel I feel really good about Starfield man really good so you're talking to somebody who's been playing it which is you've kind of hinted at that on Twitter to some people who you talked about like things I'm hearing so you're talking to somebody who's been playing it it's playable from beginning then which is not a surprise and even though for a long time you've been on the thing of probably second half of the Year even when they said it was still coming the first half of the Year even when they updated help page and all these sort of things that pointed to the first half of the year you were very much of the opinion ah man second half of the Year nah man second half of the year no no September whatever now suddenly a week later after like we gave poor pong Soul almost an aneurysm uh now you're doing a 180 and now you you just you feel the glow and now for whatever reason you think it's coming before the end of June huh that is definitely I did not expect this at all well I I don't I put it this way I don't think I don't think it's going to be all the way to holiday season you know maybe maybe you could get a little delay maybe like to July August or something like that but like before before man I was like really settled on this idea that it could launch all the way in November you know I it could launch it could be it could be like a holiday it could end up being a holiday game and who knows maybe it will maybe maybe maybe Todd Howard had just you know hit up Phil and be like you know what Phil I want to add a whole new system to this game give me an extra year or something I don't know you don't know do you it's uh it's crazy I mean well I I would I would hope that we don't have doesn't happen but who knows maybe maybe he's just like you know what you know what this game really needs Phil this game really needs a space farming system and crafting system where where you can where you can have like your Hydroponics and your little ship and you can you know grow grow your little plants and make potions and stuff because I know we all know guys Rand loves his crafting systems and games so oh yeah yeah right that's right Ran's favorite thing in games is harvesting materials and doing crafting stuff so maybe like you know we'll get some space space farming system that'll delay the game a year I don't know but uh but no I'm pretty optimistic about starford launching sooner rather than lighter at this point I'm yeah man I just I just got to see it man I gotta see it I gotta see the the Bethesda developer direct with with with Todds is a beautiful face so so I was on so I was on p.m in the PM last night with Punk's soul and fun speculation MAV yeah right you've been on it right and both pong and both MAV are on the train that they're very much of the opinion that there is going to be a Starfield Showcase in February or early March with the game releasing on 3 23 23. three twenty three twenties because Todd's love is dates right so they're very much they're that that is that is that is the hill they are dying on 3 23 23. which would be incredible uh although I believe 323 23 is also the release date of Resident Evil 4 and I sort of said Xbox got to be a little cautious the capcom's one of their partners and I don't know if you want to upset Capcom by releasing star field on you know the same day that Resident Evil 4 is coming out I I would imagine Xbox would steer clear but hey you know people get their emotions get the better of them they want the game to come out but uh yeah shout out to pong and math for having me on the uh and you are also on a pocket you were on um world of gaming with boxenberger and wandering Dutch as well right last yesterday yeah good show I love those guys I was very very tired and I feel really bad that how tired I was during that show with those guys I slept extra for today's show but I couldn't do it yesterday good yeah you know who might know the release date I think maybe King David or Lord Cognito might because I don't know if you saw that they were at the New York uh you know New York game awards thing where Todd and Phil both were taking pictures and everything I wonder if Todd and Phil told uh the iron Lords the release dates of uh Starfield huh what do you think yeah and iron Lords are like the true insiders now damn they've got like the inside track I wish I was as cool as the iron Lords I wish I wish I was man no no one's not cool man no nobody's as cool as you know King David is like the coolest you know and even was like you know he does the show and the glasses and he had the Blackbeard but now he's got the Gray beard and it's like damn most people when they when they go gray there's like you're not as cool but he looks even cooler now how's that possible how's that possible how's King David just so damn cool you know I mean I I only bought the Layla statue because I wanted to be like a a modicum closer to to King David's coolness man lead sanderic says did you see paris's prediction of the Starfield uh event being on National Space day on the 5th of May love that idea I mean that idea is is super interesting uh my pushback on that idea and I don't know if Paris is still here I hope he is because Paris is amazing is that redfall is supposed to come out the second and I sort of feel well rumored to come out to second right I think we've talked about this on the show I think we'll know when rentfall is launching next week on Wednesday but assuming it's launching the second I sort of feel like they wouldn't do a star field event right after one of their games just came out I I don't know I just kind of feel like is is that would that be a good thing would that overshadow just the release of the new redfall game maybe I'm yeah maybe I'm you know maybe I'm thinking a little differently and you know maybe that wouldn't affect redfall um but I mean that's an interesting I sort of think you're gonna do the show you're gonna do the Starfield showcase whenever they have a hard date locked for the game releasing like if that's if the game's coming in September you probably do it in August right if the game's coming in March you probably do it in February if the game's coming in June yeah you probably would do it in May at some point I just I think it entirely uh I think it mostly matters about when that launch date is for Star field when they actually have committed to the date and they know then they could be like okay what's the perfect time to do a showcase so um yes anyways um anyways we kind of took a detour there a little bit a little bit a little bit well you know hey I love the detours when we got feelings-based Jazz talking about Starfield you know I like that detour um yeah feeling space Jazz we need more we need names we need we need names for what we need like special special names for uh for feelings based chairs and facts posters we do I don't know that's like Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde type stuff yeah it really is to be honest which one's the monster is it feelings-based Jazz and trading science yeah yeah yeah yeah we don't we know on that have you read that have you read that book I've read parts of it but not the whole thing thoughts of it I don't think how does that work I don't think I mean I don't I think I've read parts of it meaning like I don't think I've finished it but I don't remember it's been it's been so long we have a super chat here from Supernova says let's settle this do they call her biscuits or cookies hmm do they call her biscuits or cookies I'm gonna call her cookies so no it's Biscuits no it's cookies ah no listen let's not do this let's not do it no let's not we have a sin Vendetta saying happy Friday random Jazz what a wild week first Microsoft lays off 10 000 employees and the Google lays off 12 000 employees crazy what's going on yeah recession and all the tech companies that over hired during the pandemic are now like oh my God profits are down uh our stockholders are going to be angry our stock prices are falling and we need to let people go because we Value stock more than individual human life because we're companies and corporations we don't give really give a care about anything else other than making our stockholders happy and having infinite growth capitalism baby yeah capitalism quite a bit yeah I mean we could get into a whole discussion about yeah what's capitalism but we won't we won't we won't because we'll we'll be we'll be we'll be here for a long time and be sad yes uh Kevin Malone says Hey guys finally caught you actually sorry before you read that stupid chat I just wanna I just want to just just to bash Google did you see how Google's New York office laid off its staff I did not know so what they did was if if you were trying to get into the building at Google's New York office if your your company badge worked on the door that's how you knew you weren't laid off so they laid people off by blocking their access to the building so like if you've got a red a red light you were laid off and if you've got a green light you're okay oh I actually did see that yeah they went to the thing used their card and if it was red or green they knew if they were fired or still employed what a way to do it what a way to do it what a shitty way to do it I'll show you company yeah uh well we also got here we have uh hold on I gotta refresh the page so I can get everybody's stuff here so I don't miss anything we have uh we have uh Kevin Malone who says Hey guys finally caught you live thanks for the entertainment rough going for Xbox Microsoft right now but 2023 is looking good regardless indeed hopefully the show next week is the injection that people need it's it's it's very entertaining we get some release dates and then you know we can kind of start out I mean yeah because like you know layoffs are awful you know we'll talk about that in a little bit but yeah definitely has court of a sour taste to everything right now uh Highlander says I have seen Sony ponies on Twitter saying that Microsoft and Xbox are in trouble I would not trust these Sony ponies to run a lemonade stand never mind a trillion dollar company I mean some people are just doing it to troll uh it's best to just ignore them uh it you know I I know that's kind of the thing oh a game pass this is because Game Pass is failing that they're getting rid of everybody and it's like yeah no you know but that's just you know that's that's the console war you know the pathetic console or that grown men fight daily on Twitter for some sort of I don't even know uh it's not like any of these companies really care about any of these people on Twitter you know they just do it so weird to me it's so weird it's it's very weird very weird uh Alexander dark says Jess I need you to tell me I won't be waiting five years for the next Halo campaign well we will be I'm sure we'll be talking about that but I think you probably might need to wait a while for the next Halo campaign if there even is a next Halo campaign yeah we're gonna we're gonna get into Hilo stuff in a bit uh JW universe is I think the cuts are part of the Activision deal um I I see I don't think so I think this is they're cutting uh jobs that they feel they could afford to lose the ACT I know like you see the headlines and it's like 10 000 people let go which is awful and it's like oh Microsoft is also spending 70 billion dollars on and this was announced on the anniversary of the Activision deal right oh but then Microsoft is acquiring 10 000 people with Activision for 70 billion dollars but the reality is is that the Activision acquisition is a revenue generator right you're acquiring the 10 000 people because Activision is going to add 9 billion dollars to your uh to your yearly revenue or whatever Activision makes I think it's like nine billion dollars or whatever it is so like those 10 000 employees are essentially bringing in nine billion dollars every single year so it's not necessarily the same I understand Optics wise when you look at it like oh my God you just cut 10 000 jobs but you're in the middle of acquiring a company that has 10 000 employees and yeah it looks like one of these things it's just a corporation corporations don't care about people they care about the bottom line profits they care about you know if their shareholders are happy in their stock prices and what what Wall Street thinks you know but the way the company looks at it is that Activision Blizzard is worth a acquiring those 10 000 people because it's gonna add nine billion dollars every single year to their bottom line essentially um we have uh XX grum saying Rand did you play maple story where you were a Hermit no I did not but I'm Herman in real life I don't need to play a game where I'm a hermit as well so uh Chuck Norris says this is the Year guys I can feel it in my bones Xbox will come back from the dead and maybe just maybe relive its former 360 Glory Days we're essentially getting a new Todd Howard game you know it's it's kind of that is definitively a 360 thing in my in my brain you know I know we got Fallout 4 but it wasn't that great and they've been pretty they've been pretty firm about saying like yeah we're returning to like the way we used to do these things with Starfield so yeah maybe we are returning to that point hopefully um we have a super title or a superchild super chat from special Nick he decides to actually show up for a change and uh he says why is the gears collection in the title when it doesn't exist you knew he was going to say it you know he's got a good point now he does have a good point so do you want to talk about the gears collection Jess because yeah Special Nick special Nick co-host of Xbox error but does really nothing else for Xbox air not like Jesse who does 100 reviews or or John who's the brains or you know one bad mother who's like really the heart you know he's he just he just shows up to a podcast 52 times a year and basically he's like let me review Street Fighter 6 mate and he's like I'm I'm co-owner of Xbox era right that's that's pretty much Nick and then yeah there's a rumor mill where he hears like hey my source is telling me this may not be true or things could change he always he's always you know covering his ass because even when we talk about scale Bond thing it's like they're in early talks early talks can mean maybe never gets done or it's completely different or it doesn't go through but Nick always protects himself because he could be like listen I said it was early talks that doesn't mean it's actually gonna happen either way special Nick is here and he talked about curious collection last year uh which didn't show up at E3 but he never said it was going to show up at E3 Now jazz you had said that at the time gears collection doesn't exist which at the time was true correct yeah I believe so does the gears collection exist now does the gayest collection exist now oh that's an interesting conversation hmm I I still don't have firm evidence of it but I will say that the pendulums kind of swung maybe a little bit further in Nick's favorite really yeah I think so I think I think it could like now it could possibly be possible you know as before I was like nah what's Nick talking about dude's mad um Nick has also told us stuff in private that never happened at all it will never happen yeah so it was kind of like I don't know Nick I don't know oh he's he's but he's been right he's been right sometimes yeah sometimes usually when it usually Nick's usually right when it has nothing to do with Xbox it's usually like has to do with PlayStation or something else has he said Nick's like a basically a PlayStation you saw it I mean he doesn't really play an Xbox he mostly plays on the switch and and other things right um uh uh yeah his favorite games golden though right golden eye golden eye still supposed to come out Nick where's that at what's going on with GoldenEye what's the deal with golden light actually didn't that's not officially announced it was in September I believe and they and they said coming soon and uh well soon uh that's what four months five months now I do uh I don't know I think that's up to Nintendo when I think Nintendo has the publishing rights and I think it's one of those things where they get to announce and decide when it's happening and who knows when Nintendo gets around to it I guess I don't know yeah I suppose that's weird but I don't know Goose collection I kind of feel like you know Unreal Engine fives here now and you know it's we're kind of at a point where they can use some of the new technology that epic games is putting out there to build very rapidly iterate on something that actually constitutes a remake or definitive collection or whatever because they've got all that AI technology now for doing Ray tracing automatically and improving textures automatically and the Coalition has shown itself to be one of these Studios that uh really gets in and uses unreal new and real stuff early so for me and base based on some of the rumors I've been hearing you know and again this isn't like hard concrete evidence kind of stuff not like when you know I I when I when I lead to the developer Direct I had super hard confirmation on that so I've got nothing to confirm that there is or isn't a gears collection right now but it's kind of becoming it's at a point where it makes a lot more sense I think and uh yeah maybe it is true hmm interesting if we if we're gonna if we're gonna grade rumors I give this rumor uh a B minus right now A B minus you give it like eight Nicks out of ten Nicks or something yeah maybe maybe 7.5 Nicks out of ten okay yeah so it's good possibility that it might actually happen a couple years from now I just wonder what would release first then the gears collection or gear six and if it's in early if they're working on it now when's it going to be released and if because in my opinion if you're doing a gears collection which I admit does makes some sense like gears really isn't on PC like two and three aren't uh Ultimate Edition is and four and five are like okay if you do the gears collection you run them through Unreal Engine five you know you obviously redo the ones that people love with the multiplayer kind of like a Master Chief Collection right you you would I would imagine you would want that out before gear six like why would you put it out after gear six it's more like an appetizer for the next game but we're already at 2023 and I doubt it comes out this year maybe it comes out in 2024 and gears six comes out in 2025 but even if it you know I don't know when they're starting it or if they're in Pre if they're in production now you know just because it's happening now doesn't mean like they're actually in full production they could have just signed the contract or what have you so then it's like okay well how far out is gear six done uh but then maybe I'm wrong maybe gear six comes first and then the gears Collection comes which would seem an odd way to do it but I mean I would be interested in seeing gears 2 completely remade in Unreal Engine 5. That would be that would be something even though the gears games are fully back and Pat you know they do the Ho Chi Master they get to 4K in their 60 frames so they look damn good already but you know hey look so we got special Nick saying it's 100 happening and then Paris saying there is no need for Gears collection so you got two golfs of thoughts there for the gears collection you know I'll start a poll so uh uh is is there um what's the what's the question I should ask is there a need for a gears collection or would you want ideas do you want a gears do you want a gears collection that's a good question to ask yes do you wanted this collection around um what are you gonna do let's no well hold on I'm just putting I'm just I'm just putting on the you know I'm asking wrong questions while he's in the middle of the time yeah I'm typing do I need one no um I guess it really depends like is this also are they doing this instead of something else that's always my sort of thing um and I know people will say well you're really looking forward to that space and that's a remake and it's like yeah that's true I haven't played it since 2009 but it's also more than a remake they've added things that weren't in the first one like Isaac is speaking they've added they've expanded the game they've added sections that weren't in the original so even though it's a remake it's uh it's still sort of different you know like launch it's pretty soon right yeah next next Friday or yeah so a week a week from today so we could have uh yeah let's people vote in the poll and um you know if you guys are enjoying the show make sure you hit the like button and subscribe if you're new to the channel let's move on Jazz because we do have some uh more Super chats to get to um we have one here from um wolf of Iowa who says I think Halo could Roar back if they drop the BR along with four maps and a Playstation release on the same day a Playstation release you just made everybody angry in chat right now sir you just made everybody in chat in chat super pissed dude he's so right though he's so right for a while it's one of the I mean he's right and wrong though I mean a I think Halo would blow up if it was on Playstation but at the same time it's like the psychological damage that Xbox fans would be you know it's like what's that Meme emotional damage an emotional damage yeah emotional damage oh Uncle Roger you know that that whole thing you know it's it's kind of like um that the the emotional damage would be palpable but at the same time 10 cent valorin and stuff they don't give a crap about consoles and they're rocking on PC like no man's business so does it really is that going to be the Silver Bullet they've got Steam and they've got Xbox if they can't succeed on those platforms I don't think PlayStation is going to move the needle but um I don't think they should drop the Battle Royale though either I mean we're gonna get we're going to get into Halo stuff in a minute I got a lot I got a lot to say about this yeah so we have a super chat from on the bright side it says is it a coincidence developer direct is just a few days before the NFL championship games will we see Starfield trailer during both games with the release date and a developer direct tune in date I mean I think that's asking for a lot like a lot of there's a lot of conspiracies floating around uh about all this I you know I've heard I didn't make a video this week uh because I was going to collect all these insane rumors floating around about Xbox and stuff but I didn't really I don't know like once I didn't really feel into maybe I still will but like one of the things that was floating around was like starfield's gonna have a Super Bowl ad yeah like okay that's never been done before in gaming to mine my knowledge and if usually the people who have Super Bowl ads are known well in advance and that's quite expensive and I'm just like are people huffing on the hopium on this one like I I understand people want Starfield to come ASAP and I understand people are like well Xbox didn't show up at the game rewards but what if they didn't show up at the game boards because they're planning on having a huge announcement during the Super Bowl what better way to like advertise Starfield than to the millions of people watching the video you know the game we have no idea what the hell Starfield is like they would even care you know like you're like your Karen's and your your dudes are you know just drinking beer being like what is this space game looks like Legos is that is that on my phone is it free is it free Sue I don't know Tom soon Todd I don't know whatever who are all these people just people I just made up does that work your butts electric maybe they do I don't know so I'm tired I feel I feel like a Super Bowl ad would just be a waste of money and you're just better off doing it I want him to do it I mean sure it'll be it would be like you'd be like what like that's nuts that's nuts uh but it also falls into the line of people thinking starfield's coming to March like Super Bowl ad in February and then uh thing in March right um I like like we like already mentioned I think we will know the release we will know the Starfield Deep dive when they know when the games actually locked in for a release date and I don't think they know that right now um Sith Lord says your new nickname should be cookie and biscuits please no if if it should be I'm cookie and Jazz's biscuits clearly right yeah achievement says set some left rgt 85 indeed he uh had a really scary situation uh health-wise which is which is weird or not weird but like I was just on the spawn cast with rgt and spawn spawn wave or you know and uh Nate the hate and mvg and Miss click and and uh the one and only OJ player essence and uh yeah and then the next day it's like I'm in the hospital and there's something to do with this like he I think he had an ear infection but then it was like no your heart's really screwed up or something and uh yeah I don't know I think he had a really severe like scare or something but he might be doing good now so hopefully it gets better um falabi says are there any leaks about the OverWatch 2 campaign well that would be Jess's Department the only thing about the OverWatch 2 campaign I don't know a damn thing about what's going on with OverWatch other than that everyone's just as pissed off with OverWatch as they always Halo in the minutes it's uh it's not easy making a service game in in current year I think like you know I mean this is going to be on a slight tangent but you know you know what I'm starting to realize is that a lot of these companies like supposedly Ubisoft had like 12 Barrels in development according to Tom Anderson I think uh you know it's it's like and you you believe it right you totally believe it that's such a Ubisoft thing to do yes I think a lot of these companies set up all these game ideas with the view that the pandemic would last forever I kind of I kind of feel like that I think they were thinking like oh man we're gonna we're gonna our numbers are so boosted because no one can go to school no one can go to work we need 12 Battle Royale to meet demand because look look at all the extra Gamers we're getting but now the pandemic's over and now they're like oh [ __ ] the pandemic didn't last forever and we are complete morons we didn't prepare for this and now we've got to do all these layoffs we've got to cancel all these games and actually everyone's really fatigued with service games because they don't there's not enough time in the day for all these battle passes uh so when um the the rumor that um uh suicide squad has a battle pass or whatever everyone's grown in the morning it's like oh man not another battle pass you know and it's it's ah God it's it's exhausting man I did I did the first OverWatch battle pass um because the the skin at the end of it was pretty cool but now I'm just like I'm not doing all that again and I I haven't touched OverWatch for weeks now you know oh man I just I'm just so done with battle passes and all that kind of stuff there's a couple of people that don't like my take about Super Bowl ad Jazz beta Cipher says a super ad for a new IP waste of money a collection of Gears games investment get the [ __ ] out of here Rand hahaha uh and then I don't know I don't I don't know much about the Super Bowl I mean I know I've never watched it because I suppose it's on a weird time I've never I've never watched American football at all but I know about the Super Bowl ads because it seems like it seems like it's a big tradition over there I guess yeah is it like a tradition I mean it's like the biggest television thing of the year you know I mean it is sort of like a tradition now yeah uh Josh Laurie thinks I'm an idiot he says I think you're an idiot it absolutely makes sense and more people would like to see the ad than you're conveying I mean I'm not saying I wouldn't like to see a Starfield ad either but does it make sense is the game actually coming out soon after Josh is it do you know is Starfield releasing soon after an ad because what would be the point of having a Super Bowl ad for Starfield that the game's not coming out until September or the game's not coming out until June what would be the point of advertising something that literally you can't go and get immediately to right like it'd be a waste of money in that sense but I'm an idiot but you're here watching my show I don't understand you can supply Devil's Advocate you'd be able to pre-order it should be able to go out and buy an Xbox I mean if they if they angled it correctly and they were just like you know this is uh this is you can pre-order an Xbox series s and uh you know get ready for Starfield and stuff by the way it's not on Playstation never will be on Playstation all that kind of stuff maybe maybe CMA and the EC make uh make that one of their concessions that actually I don't even have any exclusives yeah everything has to be on PlayStation that'd be so funny if they did that that'd be just so funny yeah and weird I mean if they if they tried that we Xbox is kind of Supreme Court I feel like I just in my opinion I think the the about this what is the amount of money that you would spend on an ad for a star field is it wouldn't be worth it uh that that that's what I think would it be a cool thing to see absolutely when is the Super Bowl February 12th oh that's yeah see if if it was a little bit later on I could I could see it but yeah I also think February 12th is probably the impact will be reduced I would I would presume I don't know though I had a marketing guy and also Microsoft's got cash to burn maybe Microsoft just want to do wants to do it at vanity or something I don't know no I I wouldn't be surprised if there is a Super Bowl ad for a sort of General Xbox Super Bowl ad that sort of heavily featured Starfield but also pushes the series s and that kind of stuff because one of the things one of the problems Xbox has is probably brand awareness right sure I would have thought I don't know yeah but it's all about it's all about return on investment how much are you spending and how much you think you'll get back is is an added Super Bowl worth spending x amount of million dollars when you can use that money and advertise in different places more often is that one drop in front of that one audience worth it I don't know why are we even talking about it it's you know we can talk if it happens I'll I'll bow down to Josh and say I guess I was truly an idiot you know I mean I guess I understand what Paris is saying he said Starfield the Super Bowl would be a huge show of confidence at Xbox and Bethesda thinks there's a flagship level title that will sell hardware and push Game Pass Subs yeah but I mean at the same time they never did an ad for Halo or any anything else Sony's never done ads there neither is Nintendo I'm not necessarily sure I mean granted you know there's always a first time for everything and that would be a major sign that Starfield has the backing of of of of of everything but I also sort of feel if you do it there better be a release date at the end of that trailer because otherwise what's the point if you just do a 30 second star field thing that you pay whatever amount it is for 30 seconds five million dollars five million dollars or whatever however however much a star a Super Bowl ad is these days it's it's quite expensive you know it's 10 bucks and you know CK Revenge says Xbox does have a brand awareness problem but not in the US which is very true they might have branded awareness problem in the rest of the world and the rest of the world really doesn't watch the Super Bowl uh they don't really have a brand awareness no they do in the US though the world does watch the Super Bowl for some reason I don't know why yeah but not well not like here in the states uh okay so let's move on for that we'll see we'll see like I said if there's a Super Bowl ad I will get down on here and be like I was an idiot I'm sorry uh you guys are all right starfield's coming 3 23 23. you guys can have my knees if that's the case nah nah we'll let you keep your knees right no no I'll give the knees up I'll give the knees up because I don't think that's happening you know yeah bro you can keep me uh we have one here from uh Eric math who says listen to the dirty nil uh ksmite says feelings-based jazz is named Jeremy and fact-based jazz is named Jazz hmm I like that one and armello says hey Jazz did you see gene on Good Morning America ask him how he got his mic to work P.S love you Rand you know we took a gene on Xbox two plus one yeah we should you know we should get jean on there we should get Paris on there too I was thinking maybe we should get Paris on there like after E3 or something we could talk about what he thinks and what the future of Xbox is and you know I'm assuming Paris will be part of Fan Fest and host and stuff because he's super cool charismatic in a biggie tell us all about that behind the scenes stuff you know that'd be yeah let's lock Paris in for Xbox two plus one after E3 yeah uh let's take a look at this poll we have uh 576 votes for do you want a gears collection and uh yes love gears wins the poll at 64 percent and no let's move on is that 36 so yeah 600 people want another gears the majority of them that's the case I definitely want another gears um okay so let's uh briefly talk about the stuff we've been playing because I've been playing some games finally stuff I want to play stuff I'm super excited for coming out next week I finished police the protocol I only had about two hours left after we did the podcast so I went and I beat it still sort of feel six and a half out of maybe seven out of ten didn't really think it was all that not surprised it underperformed at least According to some of the the projections or whatever uh you know what and I'm even sitting here being like I don't really need a sequel you know for Callisto yeah I'm not really the game to me wasn't it just wasn't one of those things where I finished it I'm like damn give me the next game immediately but then again I think about it like well okay you have the first game you have the skeleton maybe you could make all those improvements and it could be something that I thought this game was going to be um it's just I didn't really I just at the end of the day I just didn't really care for the melee Focus stuff and didn't care for the dodging aspect um it just I think my expectations sort of ruined my enjoyment of it because I was expecting something greater than what I got and maybe if I didn't have any I would appreciate it for what the game was uh but you know I usually play a game and I finish it that's I don't really it's like it's like the books I read I know a lot of people dnf books like but I never really do I always finish something so I was picked up a game and finished it but yeah do not finish did not finish what is that like is that like book Community yeah yeah the new dnf a series bro what are you what are you laughing about this is funny that's cute it's cute okay cute Deanna dnf uh I I dnf'd all the ring [ __ ] I also finished uh Somerville which I finally got around to playing another game that I had expectations for based on the pedigree of the people making it you know someone from the inside team uh the limbo team went and helped on that game and um I enjoyed it it wasn't as great as I thought it was going to be it was more like there's something about limbo and inside with their platforming and puzzle solving that is just so Sublime and so perfect that when you sort of have a similar game that isn't like uh platforming based but more 3D Puzzle based it sort of loses some of its magic and the it's like in this one and I the thing I really liked most about this game was the Sci-Fi aspect like aliens are invading and your family is kind of gone your wife and your kids and so you have your dog and you're kind of like looking for them while you're avoiding uh avoiding the aliens and you have like a power and the power turns this alien stuff into like sludge or hardens it so a lot of the puzzles in the game are based around like light and melting this alien sludge so like the puzzle solving didn't feel like none of the times I solved any puzzles that I'd be like aha Eureka I feel so smart for doing this it was more just kind of going through the motions for me rather than like yeah yeah even though I enjoyed it because of the story it was trying to tell and like the Sci-Fi Elements which I'm a huge sci-fi nerd uh it was short enough where I was like yeah I am a nerd it was like three and a half hours so it was like didn't really overstay its welcome but the shift to 3D movement based just more puzzle orientated I I felt weakened uh the game a little bit but um I I'd recommended it it's on Game Pass for people that want to check it out and then I'm currently playing evil West yeah how's that going for you it's it's it's enjoyable it's it's it's not like amazing by any stretch of the imagination but it's not bad uh it's it's enjoyable it definitely feels like a throwback to the 360 gen this feels like something that easily it could have come out in like 2008 a simple linear game you know with your guns and your abilities uh a horrible story that doesn't even matter with voice acting that is awful from like sea tier actors uh and you just kind of just following the path they do that thing where it's like here's some enemies and then they throw a whole bunch of enemies at you alongside a huge enemy so like it gets a little bit difficult mainly based on how all the like they throw all the different ads at you and then they have all these different perks and things it's basically a game where you're in this alternate universe where vampires exist in like the us and you're like part of this U.S group that basically fights vampires um but there are some things I like I feel like the shooting is on point like it always feels really good because you have a rifle you have your revolver and you have your Gauntlet and the gauntlets the melee stuff and the melee stuff isn't really very satisfying you do it so much where it kind of loses its its luster but I always kind of felt like the rifle anytime you use that and you shoot the weak points it always felt good to pop people's heads but there's this kind of weird aspect to the game where you're fighting these like vampires and you use a lot of like the melee combat but then there's some levels where you're fighting gunslingers and those parts of the game are so much better than the parts where you're doing the melee attacks the game felt so much better when like it was like five Gunslingers and they're trying to shoot you and you're just taking those guys out versus like here's some regular vampires that you punch and do stuff with like I was like oh man it almost feels like they made the wrong game like you should have made a game where you're fighting the Gunslingers rather than like a whole game like fighting these these vampires but you know I'm enjoying it for what it is I'm basically trying to like kill some time waiting for Dead Space on Friday and I got some games that I I passed up so that's that's what I've been playing recently and for anybody wondering the book I'm currently reading is the trouble with peace which is uh Joe Amber comby novel it's set in the first law world I think it's book what is it what would that be three six this is like book nine in the first law world but book two in the age of Madness Trilogy and man stuff was going down in this book oh man stuff's going down love it love it love it love it love it can't wait to finish it so I can get to the wisdom of crowds and then after that I don't know my next series might be children of time uh there's some some books I want to get to but yeah that that's that's what I've been doing so what are you up to Just Books just more just more World of Warcraft is that actually no no okay for once uh the the World of Warcraft addiction is subsiding because I pretty much exhausted all the content now on the right got the gear I wanted so kind of waiting for the next update and they're uh they're updating it in like two weeks like the updates are coming in really thick and fast they've really turned Warcraft around man like seriously but anyway uh the game I've actually been playing a lot this week is Monster Hunter rise believe it or not it's broken it's broken my my addiction uh because dude this game is just pretty fantastic you know it's uh it's this way it's the switch game at the end of the day but they've done a lot to bring it up to par for Xbox you know it's a lovely smooth frame rate on like the switch version which was barely playable and uh you know crisp crisp 4K resolution and stuff like that it's not as photo realistic there's Monster World was um but it's really scratching them once onto itch because it is months until you know I'm waiting for Monsoon to World 2 which will obviously be you know the photo realism and you know all the all the bells and whistles it feels like a nice little a little you know almost like a little dessert a little dessert of Monsanto while I wait for the the main course yeah I'm having appetizers that's the one that's the one you had before who is dessert first Sometimes I eat dessert first but but yeah I'm loving it it's really good there's some bugs though the multiplayer stuff is really broken there's a lot of people who complain about it on Reddit gonna write about it this weekend try and bring some attention to it because I want to fix it can't connect to anyone very easily it's like a pain because it's all peer-to-peer there's no there's no dedicated servers of course and all the issues that come along with that very very irritating hoping they fixed that very very soon because I want to be able to bloody well play it you know but um but yeah are you playing it right now uh yeah yeah because I can hear you playing it I'm sure everybody can hear you playing it I really need to get a noise gate for this mic but um this is [ __ ] Jazz Monster Hunter rise was one of the most stable games on the switch I don't believe you actually played it and we're getting called out there bro I literally it is one of the most stable games on the switch but that's a low ball man I don't play games uh like that anymore that I switch games I just can't do it man I'm so I'm so over switch I was I was planning just thinking this should be six friends a second look again that looks like there should be six frames a second that's where I'm at right now and yeah it was stable on switch and honestly it's it's it's really it's uh it's quite honestly a testament to the capcom's ability that they were able to get a game that's sort of like as um I don't know we call it as uh complex really is this while also like um managing to uh not make the switch turning to a a toaster oven you know so yeah what is one of the better games on the switch I still don't want to play this on the switch I wanted to play on my Xbox and I kind of knew it was going to come to Xbox everyone knew it was going to come so I just thought yeah I'd screw it I'll just wait I will literally just wait and bide my time and lo and behold it's not only here on the Xbox but it's also on Game Pass so I didn't even have to I didn't even have to buy it you know um so yeah and like I did buy the switch version which I bought the switch version and I couldn't play it because I was just like I'm just done with the switch just over I'm just over the switch over it over the switch and uh speaking of the switch did you see that Nintendo has increased production of the switch this year which is sort of again dashing hopes that they will ever make a new one oh they'll make a new one but I mean like I think the idea of people ex the new one coming sometime early next year is out the window I think you're probably of course they're going to make a new one eventually yeah I think I think maybe end of 2024 I was in I think I I well so they launched their new system in March of 2017 right so a lot of people are like oh maybe they'll just copy that and launch switch to March of 2024 right but I think you're probably more looking at like end of the year uh maybe one like Super Mario Odyssey 2 could be launch game and and maybe you're looking at like switch to like end of like November of 2024 and so if that's the case then it's not you know makes sense that they would be making more switches now if like next gen for them was basically two years away almost right so but then again maybe it is 2025. I mean switch is still selling if still the best selling console this past uh MPD best-selling console units wise uh I don't think it's really slowing down uh you know will it pass the PS2 record I mean it's an incredibly successful system also probably incredibly profitable for Nintendo to make you know so I'm not that surprising that they would you know I think some people some hardcore people really wanted that switch Pro so they could play games at a better higher resolution better frame rate they're just a brand new system in general instead of like being stuck on on that ancient Hardware but yeah that's enough Nintendo talk it's creeping me out it creeping me out a little bit I got the wheelies right now oh man around being toxic on the switch man I'm sort of I'm sort of tired I'll come back to the switch when they bring bring me you know Metroid stuff again but even that when I was playing Metroid I was like man it's Metro dread even had like these scene sections that would just slowed down and chug and it's just like man this the system a man system and it now got a steam deck as well which kind of puts us kind of puts the switch to shame yeah it's a more expensive but yeah bring out that switch Pro I will I will literally buy one as long as it's all backwards compatible well ranting Greek Greek Gamers says no to Jazz with all respect wait till you get to the grinding acts back to monster Horizon you won't like it as much it gets pretty repetitive after some point you're talking to someone who's got a thousand hours and wants onto world I am I am no stranger to grinding in this kind of game I can't I like it you know it's therapeutic and yeah I don't I don't really play these games to think too hard about it I just kind of play them I play them too grind I mean they're all kind of like that in some some respect and uh yeah I'm not I'm not expecting Roy's to blow me away or become my favorite entry in the series like even now like when I'm playing it I'm just like it's not as good as worlds it's clearly not as good as well but that's fine it's it's okay I'm okay with it and it's on Game Pass so there's nothing else I really want to play right now I'm kind of just waiting for Dead Space yeah that's dead space um do we have the monster into Rose gameplay is up and deep so people can see it um what's going on uh before we get to the Xbox Live stuff what's coming real soon there's like two more topics I want to hit before we get to that uh for spoken what's going on what's Square Enix doing with these reviews bro it doesn't seem like I've seen VGC so they don't got reviews skill up got denied Windows Central got denied a bunch of websites are posting that they're like what's going on was forespoken in their reviews what's going you got you got any info what's going on oh no you never you can never tell I mean you never sort of nobody expects to you know be entitled to a review but it's kind of sauce when VGC and you know skill up and you know a lot of these sort of big name reviewers like Windows Central we get denied review requests all the time and it's just kind of like well you know whatever you know I so it is what it is we're not we're not a big site known for reviews you know um the reviews that do well for Windows Central mainly Flagship Xbox games you know um but anyway it's not a big surprise I wouldn't get for spoken code uh but skill up and VGC a little bit more surprised about that and it kind of makes you think like what are they what are they trying to do here are they either are they hiding something it's weird because I know some people that did get reviews from very small channels now yeah so if you are if you were if you're a small if you were riding for a small Channel if you if you're a small small YouTuber and you got and you would get you were being prioritized for a code for spoken but big Outlets weren't what would your thought process be about why marketing chose to do it that way because they think I'm not saying it's a bad thing I'm just I'm just saying what what because they think I would be more swayed that I got it early and would want to continue my relationship with square so I'd be more likely to give it a better review yeah that's kind of what I would have assumed you know uh smaller Channel maybe a bit more grateful maybe they'll be a little bit kinder to the game um but yeah it looks like uh it looks like a managed reviews period whereas like you know when when all the games they give you a review code really early and they're like yeah go nuts and you know you've got the game for like months and you can test it to your heart's content and all that kind of stuff kind of like oh yeah they're really confident with this but but when that what other other reviews wanted to like oh sorry codes are really limited it's like oh you these digital copies that you can make infinite codes of are are limited oh that's such a shame that's basically that's basically like we just don't want you to have the game so yeah you know uh geeky nurse says don't trust smaller channels no do you trust who you you know uh if you watch that person's reviews and they're always honest then Newton yeah trust them I'm just saying from from PR's perspective they might think smaller channels would be more success except the success susceptible it's acceptable susceptible susceptible to being grateful we're like kataku or VGC or Windows Central they wouldn't be they're just going to tell you at least what they think where you know maybe somebody else might be like well they gave it to me I'm gonna give it an eighth when I really should give it a seven or or lower or something it's something that happens right um detective C says he was told you will get a review code on the day of launch would not provide prior to the date and that's probably true for a lot which means they're they're probably worried about review scores uh is a new IP after all they probably want to they probably want to protect it but yeah that's sort of the thing when I saw this as it's like oh they're worried about review scores right because they feel like if they gave it to everybody and it came in at like a 65 meta then you'd have a situation where the game probably doesn't do well and it's a deadout Newton new IP so what they're going to do is they're going to mitigate it and give it to people who they think might rate it higher so when the views come out it might be a more appealing 8 70 80 game rather than a lower one you know so yeah we'll see um Jazz I think last week we talked a little bit about maybe it wasn't last week but this was about uh fallout about when you expect the next Fallout to come and stuff and all those sort of things and um really briefly uh I wanted to talk to you about the obsidian boss Fergus would love to make another Fallout he talked about this again jazz yeah and this is the second time he said this is an interview with Fergus uh who's the CEO of obsidian obviously they make about and they made Fallout New Vegas which is widely regarded by many as the best Fallout game the best modern Fallout game no so um yeah he said well I'll read you what he said but we were talking about it because you know starfield's coming out this year they already said Elder Scrolls was their next game which four or five years you know 2027 2028 I mean that would be a good time for new console imagine a new console launching with a new Elder Scrolls that'd be pretty big but then it's like man how long do Fallout fans have to wait right Fallout 4 came out in 2015. Fallout 76 really ruined the repetition for of Bethesda for a lot of people and that came out in what 2019 2018 what year was that jazz do you remember poor 76 yeah well 76. I can't remember off the top of my head yeah I don't remember off the top of my head either something Fallout 4 was 2015. yeah it's 2019 there's for whatever reason I think it's 2019 I'm sure chat will correct me but people are wondering Hey when's the next Fallout game because if bethesda's doing Elder Scrolls then and then Fallout 5 it's like 20 30. 2032 before we get another Fallout game but you know Microsoft does own obsidian they did do Fallout New Vegas and Fergus is talking about it again and he says um we're not working on Fallout and we haven't even talked about what it would be our plate is pretty full with a vowed grounded in outer worlds too I don't know when we're going to start talking about new games maybe towards the end of next year uh we just have to see what's going on that's the best way to say it there's nothing in the plans nothing on the piece of paper that says that but I'll stick to what I said I would love to make another Fallout before I retire I don't know when that is I don't have a date on my retirement it's funny you can say I'm already 52 or only 52. it's one of those two depending on the day my hope is that'll happen but we'll have to wait and see so um yeah I think I think it's it's pretty obvious to me that this is how it's going to go down it's gonna go it's gonna it's gonna be obsidian 2018 for uh fallout 76 by the way yeah it's gonna be obsidian it's gonna it's gonna be obsidian Mike in the next four oh a bit more now I would bet money on it well Josh Sawyer also said uh I love Fallout I love the setting I could see myself working in it again but you know we'll see where the future takes me he said that to uh kind of funny games yeah so what do you think you think we'll see if when you follow came from obsidian before we see Fallout 5 is this it's one of those things where Fallout fans are just gonna have to I think I have to wait a little bit I think obsidian Mike's four live five you think obsidian makes Fallout 5 okay I think I think I think maybe after they ship uh worlds maybe they just go all in and the whole the whole studio decides to pitch in and make Fallout 5 a true Fallout sequel because I think obsidian could do it I think they could all of them together you know it'd be amazing so I think that happened with with with Todd Howard maybe giving some oversight maybe you know Bethesda helping them a little bit on the engine side just saw a leading narrative it'll be great I think it'll happen man obsidian will make Fallout 5. that's my prediction okay and uh what else we got here um I'm gonna get back to to my notes so yeah I I think I don't know if it'll be Fallout 5 so I think Todd's gonna do that and that'll be the game I was gonna say that'd be the game Todd retires on but that's so long from now I I think I think Elder Scrolls 6 will be the game Todd retires on but I either way uh I think the next follow-up game we get is from obsidian but let's talk about well the big news story from the week so if you guys are enjoying the show make sure you hit the like button subscribe if you're new uh here we go because this is multifaceted um Tech is basically laying off a whole bunch of people we talked a little bit about it uh uh all these companies hired up for the pandemic they were all seeing record profits now the pandemic is over those profits are down and they need to cut jobs because they need to appease Wall Street and all those and you know one of the things you do is get rid of employees which is awful because I've been laid off in my life when I used to work construction uh not even when the job was finished because it's electric when I work for butts electric not even when the job was finished because sometimes the job would finish you'd get laid off right but just like hey uh you know this job didn't go through and now we don't get anything for you and uh see you later right and it's just it sucks like now you're just oh like what am I gonna do and granted like I was in my mid-20s I didn't have like a home or mortgage to worry about or you know kids or anything like that but like so when you hear the things of like 10 000 people get laid off for Microsoft 11 000 people get laid off for meta 18 000 people get laid off from Amazon you know and then what was it 11 000 or whatever it is for Google today um it's it's just you see those numbers but then it's sort of just like that's a lot but it's it doesn't really Encompass like the the lot like the loss that people have like those are all like an a person who's just had their life upended and it's like the worst thing you can possibly imagine especially you know I've seen stories of like oh I just I just moved there I moved I uprooted my family moved over there and thought everything was good and now you know six months later you're just gone right like now I gotta go find a new job so that happened um but when they when they when the news hit that they were gonna lay off ten thousand people I wasn't really sure that it would touch Xbox because basically uh it was more mentioned that would be on the engineering side stuff like that but then word came down from Jason schreier that 343 and Bethesda was hit um even some people from Coalition as well and that sort of you know started the talk around the future of Halo and 343 and everything right um [Music] but before that I I do see news just broke I don't know if you saw this oh no but Xbox's Phil Spencer's uh uh email to staff about the layoffs just was published Oh by The Verge I don't know if I mean I'm I'm seeing it from Kotaku Xbox's Phil Spencer says Microsoft's 10K layoff hurts in the email to staff so I figured we'd read this and then talk about everything um so I guess this is this is what Phil said and an email to employees um Phil said this has been a difficult week across Microsoft and here inside our teams not that many of the one to one and team conversations have happened and I want to take a moment to reiterate the message that you heard from your leaders this is a challenge challenging moment in our business and this week's actions were painful choices the gaming leadership team had to make decisions that we felt set us up for the long-term success of our products and businesses but the individual results of those seasons are real I know that hurts thank you for supporting our colleagues as they process these changes over the coming weeks we will have many opportunities to connect and answer your questions including the monthly gaming update next week for teams who attend that meeting and I'm close contact with teams at xender Max to provide support the gamer ship leadership team and I are committed to being as transparent as we can moving forward with ambiguity is challenging but I am confident that together we will get through this difficult Moment In Time Xbox is a long history of success thanks to the work you do in the service of players creators and each other your work is so deeply appreciated and valued in these times of change and is integral to our business momentum I am confident in our future and proud to be a part of this team but also conscious that this is a challenging time and I want to thank you for everything you do Hill do here Phil so that's what Phil had to say about the layoffs yeah um but it seems at least on the Xbox side that um 343 was hit the hardest it looks like uh yes uh well 60 out of 10 000. well isn't the number more up to like 130 at least that's I've seen some people talking about that or a third of the studio um assumes some reports well I suppose contractors count too I guess but yeah I mean three four three was no to I mean it's probably Fair as I say they were notably impacted by by the layoffs and I think it's it's notable because they are the stewards of the flagship IP Halo supposedly and all that kind of stuff and you know Halo has been under a microscope because of the handling of Halo infinite and probably to the TV show to some degree you know given how how much how much praise The Last of Us TV shows winning and how how mixed to negative people have been about the Halo TV show you know it's it's been it's been it's been it's been a riot it's been a wild ride you know and I think like it's all come to a head this year you know as we move that as we move out of the the boom time and we head towards recession you know it's it's the kind of it's It's the time in the business cycle you know to to Really examine what the future is going to look like you know and and restructure where where is appropriate people have for a long time people have been calling out for Halo's leadership to be altered in Halo's direction to be altered and last summer we got Halo's leadership altered and with these restructurings you could you could say that they're probably looking at you know upending how they you know view Halo's future right now I just want to know in chat someone said that Jason schreier said via his sources there's no plans for three four three to stop being the main Studio for um for uh Hilo you know there's been a lot of rumors and speculation and there's been a lot of so-called insiders making claims about Halo and 343 a lot of which just don't line up with what I've heard and you know what I'm going to talk about on the show today um via multiple sources both past and present members of of uh you know of of the studio um uh with regards to some of this stuff and I think the it's hard it's hard to find the truth because there's a lot of bitterness obviously there's a lot of angers a lot of emotion and there's also a lot of miscommunication between the different teams there you know what what one team knows another team doesn't necessarily know because the team at the studio was set up in a weird way kind of like the Ubisoft way where everyone's kind of siled and can't communicate with each other and they're on separate ndas and all that kind of stuff just hasn't been run very well just hasn't been run very well we all knew that we all know that from the finished product so it's it's not it's not really it's not really any secret now it's all out there the the the situation at 343 has been dire you know it's been dire and fans deserve bad but also the employees of work there deserve better um you know and the employees who laid off deserve better but you know that's that's a whole other discussion what is happening with with 343 I suppose is the the first question about these layoffs you know before we get into like what what does this mean for Xbox's future in their 2023 and all that is Xbox doomed and the the re the real Doom and Gloom that's that's flying around out there let's talk about three four three first at least so what from what I've heard um from what I've heard yeah the campaign the campaign team uh from and you know you can look this up yourselves you just browse LinkedIn and you know people have been analyzing LinkedIn posts and analyzing the types of roles that have been eliminated and stuff like that a lot of the a lot of the cuts of fallen on campaign single player kind of content teams right narrative and all that kind of stuff so that kind of paints a picture of which you know led to led to some people saying stuff like well that's it they're never going to make any they're never going to make any uh campaign content anymore and then we had the we had these rumors that like um the campaign content had been canceled like uh this you know the Halo the endless has been canceled and and all this all this kind of stuff has been canceled and killed and and stuff like that but ran from what I've heard there was never any Halo the endless there was never any campaign DLC it hasn't been in development there is no campaign development that's been you know nobody's been working on campaign development uh from what I've been told campaign development for DLC or had infinite and you know whatever else all of that kind of revolved around um are more disconnected I might mean my my Wi-Fi symbol just flashed on my computer I don't know that that worried me if I'm still here maybe I'll get disconnected in a second hopefully not but anyway um from what I've heard there was never any there was never any campaigners that you'll see in development nor was it planned and like someone in chat saying so they lied to us again like did did they ever say that they were making campaign DLC people said they said things like we're working on the next narrative or when we're working on what's next for Halo like they always used very very very vague language um I always use very vague language when describing you know Halo narrative content can mean narrative content for the Battle Royale which is supposedly still coming narrative content can mean like you know there's a little story vignettes at the start of a season and stuff like that you know which people didn't like that kind of stuff that that's that's what character artists have been working on they haven't been working on the DLC they've been working on that kind of stuff for the live service it's been all about it's been all hands on deck making the live service making it you know be what it needed to be to compete with the the Apex Legends and the fortnites and wherever else's of the world you know um maybe there was uh maybe there was a sort of like a high level idea of we'll work on campaign DLC if we can get all our T's crossed and our eyes dotted with the multiplayer but campaign deals it was never sort of a thing Beyond conversations from what from what I've been told and um the hail of the Endless was literally just the trademark that's that's all it was and there was never anything more than a trademark um so that's kind of the first thing like people saying that the campaign DLC was canceled and stuff that just wasn't accurate like it wasn't it it was not canceled because it was never a thing now with regards to what's coming next now a lot of there's a lot of speculation about this because they have it does seem like a lot of the cuts were oriented around campaign kind of content you know story content and uh you know the the kind of stuff you would need to put together a campaign which has led to speculation that maybe three four three won't make Halo campaigns anymore we're just we're just going to be multiply Halo in perpetuity and maybe another studio will make campaign content you know maybe a lot of people have been thrown around certain affinities of possibility um which is personally like the way I think it's probably gonna end up um and the I don't I don't know if even Microsoft has a plan for what what what they're doing right now with Halo's future whether they are planning to Outsource things whether they are sort of like you know reorganizing to deliver more Hello infinite story content with a third party maybe sooner Affinity maybe another Studio you know there's other studios I've worked on Halo as well maybe they could get one of Microsoft's internal Studios to do campaign content you know if if they're not once they're finished up with other projects and stuff I think they're in they're in a they're in a position of flux right now where they're sort of trying to figure out what is next really with what they've got and stuff like that so um Joseph Staton obviously uh he managed to get hello out of the door and um he has now returned to Global publishing and no longer will be working on the Halo franchise and stuff like that and the the Halo franchise is now Peter what's his name Peter Hintz I don't I don't pronounce his name but he's like he's like old school year or or for you know if you look at his LinkedIn he worked at EA and he worked on a lot of you know EA sort of some of ai's classic franchises um and uh so but the dude he has delivered you know in the past so it's not like it's not a it's not a case of like we need to be in full Doom Gloom mode right now there's still like there's a lot of obviously Halos uh a very rich Universe with a huge passionate fan base and Microsoft isn't just going to shelve Halo like as much as a joke about it on the show that they should shelve Halo they're not just gonna throw that away they're not going to throw it away of course they're not going to throw it away but that but for years now and like you guys know this everyone knows this the Halo the Hilo franchise has been mismanaged it's been mismanaged by a combination of miscommunication and uh and just just everything you know um ineptitude miscommunication and maybe maybe even trying to do too much with too little and stuff like that inefficient use of resources and pretty much everything the the whole studio needs a culture change which has meant clearing Clearing House to some degree you know especially with regards to Bonnie Ross and and uh you know some of the high ranking peeps you know so that kind of leads us to what's next I think personally we'll probably hear from 343 themselves soon because they've got they've got to see all the speculation and rumors going around they've got to be thinking like we've gotta we've got to put some you know we've got to put something out there to sort of explain our current position and be a little bit more transparent because what that's the thing we don't have right now as for fans we don't have transparency about what they're doing with Halo and the focus should be on those who's laid off you know in the immediate short term and that's probably what's happening and um now in this first round of layoffs there might even be more layoffs to come you know because they're laying off 10 000 people and I don't think they've laid off 10 000 people yet there's probably more to come right yeah so there's got to be more rounds of layoffs some God knows what else is gonna gonna you know be on the The Horizon so the the Focus right now should be on those who laid off and and that kind of thing it's kind of like we don't that their priority is probably elsewhere right now but I think very soon they'll probably come out with statements to sort of waylay some of the big concerns about the franchise and where they're going to go with it and what they're going to do next and uh you know maybe put to bed some of these rumors about you know them no longer working on Halo as a as a single player entity and that kind of stuff yeah that's are you mute are you talking right no I mean people can't hear you on the Stream yeah I accidentally muted myself but I only talk from it I'll just repeat myself because it wasn't it wasn't that much I apologize uh because Shakespeare was barking and I didn't want that to overshadow what you guys was saying so um I was saying that um I was saying that the rumors that had been being spread you know as Xbox rumors tend to do right remember we talked about the the Fable rumor and switching engines and it just seems like rumors spread on the Xbox side but this one took a lot of people were like okay was you know that the campaign DLC had been scrapped which you're saying isn't true because it never existed in the first place which I don't know what's worse to be honest with you I don't know if campaign DLC being scrapped is worse than campaign DLC never being in the works at all like I you know what I'm saying like to me it's like it sort of felt like we were being like oh you got a 10-year plan everybody sort of expects DLC for the way at least the campaign ended and it's like oh they got to be making stuff they trademark the endless and now you're you're saying as well as Jason schreier um I think you even put it out there before Jason that no there is no campaign DLC because it never existed in the first place so it's like tough to say which one is like worse like that it was cut or that it never existed but basically the rumor was that um um essentially that 343 would become a publisher very much like world's Edge who handles the Age of Empire stuff where they contract third-party developers to make games in the Age of Empires universe and that 343 would essentially become the same and that they would just take pitches and publish Halo games from third-party Developers uh you know but I thought that was weird considering how many people are still at three four threes like you don't need that many people if you're just a publishing firm and to your not I mean to your knowledge is is that is that true because it didn't sound true to me when that was all going around what about what about that aspect of of the rumor of 343 becoming a publisher essentially I don't I don't think that's true you know I don't think I don't think that's true I think like they might Outsource I can see them Outsourcing a campaign maybe and stuff like that but I think 343 is definitely still going to be the lead when it comes to especially multiplayer and the design of the game and the engine and that kind of stuff potentially I think like I think that's probably um the case I don't think that'll be a become a publisher in in the way that world's urge you because you know world's Edge is a very small team and you know they do have designers in-house at World's Edge but Relic has done the Lion's Share of development on Age of Empires 4 and continues to do the development management so um so yeah I don't think they'll become a publisher um from based on what what I'm hearing but I do think um these were the the layoffs have been targeted very specifically around the single player content maybe there's a view that you know maybe certain Affinity has a better pitch for what Halo's campaign could look like that has to be it has to be a Back to Basics approach for Halo Halo you know I don't think I I don't know what you guys think I don't know what you think Ryan but I don't think the open world format works for Halo I mean all the most I I thought I mean look I mean I thought the campaign was was what was was was was a lot of fun I thought maybe the story aspect let it down a little bit because I I thought there was a more interesting story that you could tell in Halo infinite and they sort of basically scrapped it all Fast Forward because they because a fan backlash from Halo 5. but I was really looking forward to like evil Cortana and you'd be fighting and all the sort of things and they were just like no fast forward boom boom boom and the open world I thought was was very fun to play around in and I was anticipating like new areas to explore uh you know I know people bring it up and it's kind of like uh people get like uh but like different biomes right like the open world was just that kind of Pacific Northwest with a bunch of trees green trees green pine trees either be cool be like okay what if you get a DLC in like the snow area or DLC in the desert area or DLC here here and the way they ended the game was kind of like okay well there's gonna be more adventures and stuff like that you know obviously the endless are coming um but no I mean I think it all comes back down to leadership at the end of the day right yeah uh you we have like quotes here from Patrick Wren who uh work for three four three for eight years and was senior multiplayer designer and Halo infinite before he moved to respawn to work on Star Wars Jedi Survivor he said the layoffs at 343 shouldn't have happened and Halo infinite should be in a better State I mean can't really argue with that the reason for both of these things is incompetent incompetent leadership up top during Halo infinite development causing massive stress on those working hard to make hail the best it can be Tyler Owens uh also said um as a Halo fan I'm really tired of Microsoft business practices and policy solely killing the thing I love between the Contracting policies these are they abuse for tax incentives and layoffs in the face of gigantic profits and executive bonuses they set Halo up for failure and he worked uh for 343 during development of Halo 5 and Studio operations role and then um yeah uh nick uh sir Iron Wolf um he said as well don't forget the heavy Reliance on contractors vendors and that messed up system uh I would have loved to have stayed on the team if I could have and worked my way up still one of my favorite jobs and Patrick run said oh man the contract stuff is a whole other can of worms that pisses me off so many amazing amazing people and talent just completely disappeared um yeah so to me this is all just poor planning poor leadership and competent leadership and it still boggles my mind that this happened right that you essentially fumble the bag on your biggest Flagship IP well it may not be the biggest anymore we know it's Minecraft but at one point I mean Halo made Xbox Halo is here because of Xbox right now um right I saw I saw some people bringing up an old fail quote where he said yeah if we lose our why with Halo we lose our way with Xbox yes yes I I remember that quote so to see Halo infinite and does this see like did I was coming out and being like they love the game they want to make something good but they couldn't because the leadership whether or not it was just like poor planning or they didn't do thing like and I'm not talking about just leadership at 343 right people have been asking for Bonnie to be gone for a long time she left people underneath her that she she was friend you know like they're gone too I'm saying this goes up to the top like this goes up to Phil and I love Phil and Phil's my dude and will always be my dude but he deserves some of the blame so does Matt booty you can't just Pawn this off on just the leadership of three four three because Phil and Matt have their backs and I think Phil's one of Phil's defining character traits is that he's he's very he's very um loyal to the people and his friends and I think maybe that loyalty hurt Halo in this situation by supporting the people at the studio longer than they should have I'm not like so this could be a situation where action up top it wasn't really action up top it was inaction that hurt Halo from the executive leadership team at Microsoft where they should have stepped in earlier and righted the ship instead of waiting for this point to get to where it was because now you have the situation where who knows about the future of Halo and we shouldn't be talking about this we shouldn't be questioning about what's going on with the future of Halo and you know all these sort of things can you imagine talking about the future of Mario exactly the future you wouldn't be having this discussions with Nintendo but here we are we like 343 seems like it's a studio that's been mismanaged for a long time and I I feel like Phil stuck with Bonnie and the people there way longer than they should have and I understand why probably because Halo 4 and Halo 5 were making Oodles of money this is the problem I really think that happened was that Halo 4 and Halo 5 were very successful very successful games and Halo infinite I hate to say it is probably a failure in every sense of the word uh but the one that's probably most important to Microsoft was that it's a financial failure right you basically change how the game was sold you're no longer doing boss proc products or at least that's the the majority of the revenue like it used to be or was all now it's we're going to take our most popular mode that people would buy halo for and we're gonna give it free to play because we need because it needs to be free to play because that's just the current climate of multiplayer games understandable but I could tell you a year after the game launched that they didn't plan on having only 5 000 daily players on this team or being number 20 on the Xbox player charts there's not enough people playing that game to sustain uh to sustain the studio uh with microtransactions and stuff right so this is what happens it's kind of what it looks like when you put out a bomb folks games are so expensive they take so long to make and when you put out something like this that doesn't meet any of the financial requirements that Microsoft demands you're going to have changes at your studio and we've already seen the changes we saw the upper leadership at 343 get removed the new people put in place and now you're seeing you know them restructuring and getting rid of people who worked on the campaign and art and stuff because it's like well we don't need this because we're not doing it and I'm still kind of shocked because it's just there's that question that was like that always that it seems to always play to play dexbox is that can Xbox manage these IPS properly that's the concern that some people have and now you're trying to acquire Activision Blizzard and you're trying to get Call of Duty and now people can just throw it at Phil's face and Xbox's face being like you couldn't manage Halo properly how are you possibly going to be able to manage Call of Duty properly and it's a fair question because Halo's been mismanaged ever you know you can make the argument ever since Bungie left they didn't do anything because it made him money it made him a lot of money but now well it it's not and this also goes back to the idea of like you know there was this split in the community if you remember when the game got delayed the first time and then they were like oh well Co-op and Forge aren't coming they're coming later right and there was a clear divide in the community some people were like no delay the game a second time delay the game until the game is complete and ready to roll and there is the other half of the community that were like no no no no no no release this game immediately don't delay it a second time I want to play the campaign now everybody who's asking for it delayed is selfish you remember remember these these conversations release it now I want it released now everybody who's asking for delay is selfish I don't care about Co-op I don't care about Forge give me the game right well you got what you wish for everybody that was screaming from the rooftops about not delaying it a second time you got what you wish for and it's a monkey Paws wish because I think Haley I think Haley I think Halo infinite would probably have been a better place if it launched a complete package if they took the extra time to make sure that Forge was working day one and was integrated in the matchmaking playlist if Co-op was there if they had actual live service elements all planned and ready to go instead of clearly sacrificing that to launch the title that you know I I think Halo infinite might be in a better place maybe it wouldn't be maybe all the people turned off on the microtransaction you know stuff that they were doing would still be pissed off but it could be in a better place but I hope everybody that complained from the time you know on social media and podcasts that they need to release it now because that's what's best for Halo I hope they're happy because this is what happens you got what you wanted sometimes you have to be careful for what you wish for so yeah I mean maybe I'll be you know I've been saying like I won I want Microsoft to own ABK because I won Starcraft and stuff like that maybe I should be careful what I wish for as well yeah be careful because obviously world of warcraft's in a really good place right now Microsoft screws that off I'm gonna be like no no I I wished I wish for the wrong thing you know I got my monkey pole wish yeah because the Xbox has a lot to prove but well yeah shout out to kilantis before I missed this for becoming this member of the channel appreciate it but yeah I'm I'm out of shock because Halo is what made Xbox and to see it flounder like this to see it just you have all these dabs basically blaming management which you know maybe they're dissatisfied and but I sort of feel like that's the truth is what's like management seemed to be the problems they didn't know what they wanted or they stopped and started and all these different Roblox they put up and then you have like you know the upper management in Microsoft enabling them to a certain degree instead of you know Microsoft loves the top talk about their hands-off approach well maybe it's one of those things where this studio needed to be meddled with right sometimes the hands-off approach works for other Studios and sometimes it doesn't work it's like that approach doesn't work for everything sometimes you need a micromanager to get things done uh and this can be one of situations where maybe that um you know that that didn't work out in this case and it's exactly you know it's exaggerated because they waited too long to change anything and now it's just too late now it's like Halo is probably at the lowest point possible and then you have people like is it does Halo even matter in 2023 you're gonna have that conversation like is it like even if Halo launch perfect would it have still seen a decline because is Halo and Arena Shooters even something that people want to play in 2023 against the the battle royale's of the worlds and the other type of multiplayers and the question is the answer that question is I don't know maybe people have moved on maybe Halo you know is a lesser to your franchise now when you need to you know uh you need to slim down 343 to represent the the newer reality that Halo faces I don't know the answers to those questions but I know Microsoft's not going to sit by and just let you know three fourths let Halo just be dormant they're going to try to do everything they're gonna do and I agree with you I agree that like you're gonna have three four three they're gonna they're gonna double down on the the multiplayer the live service stuff because as much as I hate to hear as much as people who love single player would hate to hear this in the grand scheme of things like that's not going to make 343 any money which it's because like I wanna I want more Master Chief stories but they're like we need to worry about the multiplayer because that's what people are going to play and we need to get monetization back on track we need to get users back playing so double down on this and then you can essentially have certain Affinity make a new campaign or for a new game at some point or or something and I think that makes a lot of sense but Xbox better be careful because if they're relying on certain Infinity which they're relying on them for the Battle Royale if they're going to rely on them for the next campaign they need to acquire them as soon as possible because somebody else could that you're kind of relying on Shaky Ground if you're relying on third parties once again because we saw how that worked out for the Xbox One generation where Microsoft was relying on third parties to release exclusives for them right and then they couldn't Like You release rise and then you couldn't come to an agreement with crytek for Rise too so basically dead franchise you release Sunset Overdrive and who knows what happened between Insomniac and Xbox but now there's no Sunset Overdrive 2 unless Sony makes it right Quantum break you know you you said you wanted to bring back Quantum break and Sean asmer retweeted you and it was a huge thing it was trending on Twitter but who knows about Microsoft's and relationship with remedy so it's like another dead franchise all because you're relying on third parties but third parties uh um their statuses change so if you're relying on certain Affinity to do all this work for Halo in the future but their status could completely change tomorrow they could be purchased by somebody who might not want them working on Halo content and it's like okay well you just lost certain Affinity now what so like if that's what you know I agree with you that's who they probably should you know they need to buy them as soon as possible you know yeah I don't know it's it's it's risky it's very risky you know but I mean who'd have thought like because Halo infinite launched launch was great everybody was happy the campaign was quite good even though I didn't like some of the storytelling is this um the multiplayer was solid but people but like they there was no basic live service like they didn't have a plan and it was just well nobody wants to play that you're nobody wants to play that when you don't have content coming and it it basically failed because of it and the failure is all on the leadership for whatever different reasons and it's just you just slap your face because how could you do this like how do you fumble Halo so badly that this is what happens and then it just opens up the other question marks like I said like can you properly manage Call of Duty oh you didn't really do Halo very well you know can you properly manage Bethesda are you staying you should probably stay all hands off it Bethesda but then you're still letting go of people at Bethesda right this is this thing I don't know Jazz it's what do you have to say to this and just I don't know I've already said my piece it's just like I think what what more can you say it's it's a dead horse we we are like Halo fans deserve better have we've been here before repeating this over and over again and I think a lot of people are getting hung up on the fact that they called it a 10-year plan you know who said that it was a 10-year plan they said that but who who's three four three literally said that but who the individual what individual I mean you know how to Google Foo hold on Halo infinite 10 year plan okay I don't know let's see uh Chris Lee said that Chris Lee yeah okay Chrisley said that in an interview with IGN that it was a 10-year plan I think that was just in his head you think I know Justin has had wow that's I think he was literally just in his head because they clearly did not have a 10-year plan I think I was literally just in his head that it was a 10-year plan and I think like the there was just like a huge amount of hyperbole um there's a huge amount of hyperbole flipping backwards and forwards about like um what they should do with the franchise probably externally and internally and Chrisley is one of the people who's gone and you know one of one of the one of the Impressions I get is that there was just this miscommunication between Bonnie rice and Chrisley and then miscommunication between Bonnie Ross and then Matt booty and Phil and she had like half the information accurate information from Chrisley and it just seems like a huge amount of just non-stop bad management and bad communication at the sort of top level you know they need they need real communication and serious communication they need the teams to be communicating and they need transparency and they need to not have a culture of like we need to lie I'm not saying lies happened but clearly there's like there must have been a bending of the truth for the things to have gotten the way it had been and maybe even like like people lying to themselves you know maybe maybe like leadership was like oh Bonnie Russell or turn it around or Chrisley's 10-year plan thing or pan out and they're lying to themselves about it you know it's just it's just um it's a whole last mess you know and hopefully um will hallow find its fee you know and and this is sort of like um you know this whole situation is the sort of the wake-up call the franchise really needs you know but maybe I'm maybe I'm just maybe it's it's beyond saving you know but if it is beyond saving it really does call into question everything it really does you know because Phil said if we lose our way with Halo we lose our way with Xbox and it makes you question everything like how could they throw this much cash at 343 and Halo and still not be able to deliver you know and when everyone gave Halo infinite the benefit of the doubt because they were so desperate for Halo to be good and it did feel like this was a springboard of something good it was like yeah 10-year plan we'll have campaign DLC we'll have will have online we'll have ongoing live service and the they'll be like the the seasons have come thick and fast you know um and he just never did there was no 10-year plan and 343 never really managed the communication of that 10-year plan they never they never really said actually the 10-year plan thing was just it's just the thing that Chrisley said that wasn't actually a thing so time time says How can there be miscommunication with the studio is the studio head in The Silo I don't understand how this is possible so can you explain siloing for people that don't know who you're talking about Solomon is just like literally that it's like the people literally exist in silos little teams that aren't even allowed to communicate because they have ndas forbidding them to communicate with other parts of the team no it's it's Ubisoft is kind of notorious for this as well and look at the situation Ubisoft is in um so and Microsoft's a really big company it's a really really big company 343's building is not in the main part of Redmond's Redmond campus it's sort of like off to the side so like you have to sort of go and visit it and stuff I don't know it's clearly there's miscommunication like how could there not have been miscommunication just seems like nobody really knew what they were doing you know Rand I have to bear it back really quick so you'll be right back I'll be right back keep the peeps I'll keep the peeps happy let me get through some of these super chats uh that have been piling up since then I appreciate everyone for being here make sure you uh hit the like button and uh subscribe if you're new check out our sponsor uh hellofresh uh links in the description you get 22 free meals from them so it's a pretty good deal I can't wait to try out their food next week um we have uh Mr X says who says I'd like a gears collection as long as it's Unreal Engine 5 which you know according to special Nick it is real and yes it would be an Unreal Engine five I would also very much because I mean the gears games were always Lookers and I mean I yeah I mean it could look really good we have flame saying reject reject correct spoken return to octopath traveler too and someone tells me that for spoken's not going to review very well I don't know uh clutch man says check out Level One gaming great show great panel indeed they I've been on there a couple times uh fames put on a good show and he has a great website so make sure you guys go check out Level One gaming uh calantis cheers to the best Xbox podcast starting started listening in 2019 Jazz what weapon do you mainly use in Monster Hunter uh well I'll ask judge that when he returns but thank you I'm always humbled by the people that you know we have 1400 people here 1700 last week always humbled by the people that you know appreciate and value minor judges opinions about stuff and would spend their Friday nights or Saturdays Sundays Mondays or Tuesdays or whenever you listen to this whether it's live or later on demand you know Spotify or iTunes that like listening to the show and then say this their best podcast Xbox podcast or podcasts in general wasn't something I thought would happen when we started doing it because we just started doing on the whim but it's it's something that really does make your day when people like what you create uh cast Mike says Xbox laid off their employees for that Super Bowl ad uh we'll see about the Super Bowl ad I I don't know it would be really cool to see one because that would be like man Microsoft is really 100 behind Starfield but at the same time it's like I don't think they do that unless they know starfield's launching soon after um so that's why I kind of just plus I think we'd know if there was going to be an ad because usually we know well and beforehand about all the um all the companies that have ads for Super Bowls so it we I think we would know uh sin Vendetta what's going on buddy he says if Halo goes multiplayer only I will be done with Halo and I'm sure you aren't the only one uh but you know multiplayer is the thing that keeps these games going you know but I mean Halo does have a history with single player right it's not like for fortnite's a brand new thing Apex Legend is a brand new thing like you have a lot of these things the Rainbow Six Siege people were like I'm not playing Rainbow Six because it was about the single player right but Halo's always had the history it was like campaign campaign co-op uh Forge multiplayer and yeah if Halo if they don't do any more single player I could see a lot of people being done but I think they'll do single player it just may not be done by 343 343 may just be focusing on the multiplayer aspect and then Studio like certain Affinity could come in and essentially um you know do what they do because I can imagine like if there's a there's also a part of me that wants like more Halo content I don't know about you guys but like I want like like different genres like like a Halo horror game like where you're up against the flood but you're not really a Spartan I've always kind of imagine that as something cool or like you know the Halo lore is so expansive like you don't necessarily even need Master Chief you could do a proper lock story uh set somewhere you know like there's so many things you could do in the Halo Universe and I've sort of felt like 343 hasn't really fully or even bungee for that matter when they were in charge hasn't fully explored all the different things you could actually make and maybe if this leads to like other companies wanting to do things maybe you know with the idea of like imagine if you're a third party company and like three four threes taking pitches for stuff and you're like if we have a really good pitch and then now you're in charge and you're making the campaign like wouldn't you pour your like heart your yours and like your soul and all the money into it because you know if you nail Halo that could be your ticket to stardom right I mean people don't remember but Rocksteady you know people look at Rocksteady before they did the Batman games uh and don't remember that they were just basically a no a no-name studio that did like God I think what was the game before they did Batman Arkham Asylum it was some some dinky game on like I don't remember the name I want to say state of emergency but I think state of emergency was a rock star game but it would but like that's why like nobody had any faith in Batman Arkham Asylum because people were like who is this Rocksteady right like yeah people saying ODST ODST was something different and it was really good you could see other stories in the Halo Universe that way but people were like yeah Batman Arkham Asylum who cares about that like who's this Rocksteady developer right it wasn't until like oh my God this is good and then Arkham City was great and then Arkham Knight was really good where like some developers makes their names because they get that they get that chance the chance of working on a big IP like Batman and then they become world famous and something could be said the same for that for a third-party developer you know nobody really knows certain Affinity outside of you know Halo fans but if they could put together an incredible Halo campaign and everybody is going to be talking about certain affinity and then you know they could go on to big and huge things you know um yo yo you're back um we do have a question from kalanta saying what's what weapon do you mainly use in Monster Hunter gunlands baby gun lands gun Lance what yeah it's like a it's like a gun that's a lance okay a shield man uh the great green says during doing my workout as I listen to YouTube thanks for keeping me company and keep up the good work I hope your uh workout goes well uh Chris R says Jess do you know if a game if do you know if the game a service plan for Halo was more of a 343 idea or something that Xbox wanted them to do now that's like hard to say it's really really hard to say like it's probably a combination of both I think like the end of the day video game companies are in it to make money you know it's not often that you know a studio AAA Studio can just go and make something artistic you know like a pentiment for example a lot the games and businesses at the end of the day and they have to make money High loads of business Halo as an entity is a business and um you know we we often talk about like it would be cool if there could be like uh a horror spin-off of Halo where you just you know fight the flood and and stuff like that and but Microsoft probably looks at it from a business perspective it's like well you know best Triple A staff and it's 18 rating and Halo is supposed to be a you know a teen rating so we can get all the T the teenies you know get it in their Christmas stocking or whatever I think about it like that so there's probably a double aspect there it's probably like well fortnite and all that stuff is the big deal now what would Halo look like in a in a world dominated by fortnite and Apex and Valor and all those free-to-play games and it's probably like this is the best they could come up with like in a sense like we wanna we wanna appeal to the core and the the old school which is why we're going to have a campaign but we've also got to meet the reality of modern game development halfway and make this service game and clearly there was just a hell of a lot of I don't know mismanagement miscommunication and all that sort of stuff and it's not for lack of passion you know the devs obviously worked really really hard I actually spoke to someone who used to be on the team who says to this day and they haven't worked there for like years now but they say to this day they have nightmares about Halo infinite's development cycle you were saying that you also know people that left the video game industry over it right yeah I know people who left the entire video game industry because of Halo infinite which is just wild to think about right um it's it sounds like it was really tough and frustrating and there's a lot of red tape you know dealing with Microsoft as a bureaucracy and uh you know their policies often they get called out for they often get called out for the whole contractors and it's scenario in Washington DC this is part of the reason why a lot of Microsoft Studios they've tried to move them out of DC I think um not DC sorry Washington State I always get that mixed up why can't America just you know choose more than one name for things but anyway but yeah Washington State they moved that stuff out of Washington state and they're trying to hire into places like California and stuff and you know like that chap said about the tax incentives and you know what why they they sort of cheaped out on certain things and it just sounds like he was a bloody Nightmare and yeah um so uh my buddy kimono Tang says that the Rock Steady game they did before Batman Arkham Asylum was Urban chaos Riot response it was an FPS published by idos for the PS2 and Xbox it was a 72 meta and I don't want to publisher at one point yeah they were but I was just talking about how like somebody could make a Halo game and like use that as a name to like you know use Halo as a way to like like bounce themselves into the spotlight very much like how nobody knew who Rock study was until the Batman games right all right um but yeah so thank you for that because I I knew it was something along those lines Urban cast state of emergency um very similar um let's see what else we got we have um Michael saying it's is it is it time for a doom like reboot to Halo involving the books writers Maybe that'd be interesting a rebooted Halo start from the beginning or change things up I I sort of would be down for that uh especially with how they ended up because it was just like I really hated some of the storytelling at the end of Halo infinite I really didn't like that they basically just everything's whitewashed all the stuff from Halo 5 that was interesting and then just like started Halo infinite from this point it's like what anyways Brendan says at E3 this year the Coalition logo appears the chime and electric riff from the 90s X-Men plays saying coming soon would this make you follow his bar up I mean uh next men game by the Coalition sounds sounds great I'd love that um I still think they're just doing like gear six and maybe that small new IP though unfortunately uh we'll see maybe after gear six armela says the lazy Fair attitude with Xbox management at spender booty level has got to change well that's my speculation about hands off um I think they were sort of hands off which in this case I think didn't work for 343 it needed to be more micromanaged or they needed to take action sooner than they did uh but I think it works at other Studios uh where it's like you don't want to screw up the culture or the creative process or whatever obsidians crushing it with the hands-off approach so yeah so there's that uh Onyx says same for Perfect Dark two and Crystal Dynamic again uh probably talking about like the idea of you know you know like relying on third parties to make your games that you don't own uh Gordon folales is good chat thank you for the support and yeah chat's always amazing here uh Nathaniel says is the No Hands approach also a problem obviously creative freedom is a must but it looks like it can lead to negligence looks it depends on the studio but I mean that's just my speculation because I don't know what happened I'm just saying seems like maybe they waited too long to actually get involved and change things at three four three you know but maybe Jason schreier writes a book about this or some stories about it so we can learn more about what actually happened at 343 and uh during Halo Infamous development essentially and um Dead Planet says part of the problem with Xbox's pipeline is so many of the games are RPGs for a platform that needs games yesterday this doesn't seem ideal games do take a long time to make these days um Jazz we did have breaking news on the show oh Crystal Dynamics has announced that uh they're ending Avengers development oh yeah I saw that yeah well I mean I know how you saw it earlier literally just happened no it was like there was a rumor but I'm just saying Crystal Dynamics like literally officially just tweeted out 10 minutes ago an important announcement about the future of Marvel's Avengers I don't know what it is honestly thought editored I thought they'd already announced that because that game is I don't know what they're saying because I I keep on getting a bad gateway when I open up the article but I'm assuming yeah I'm assuming yeah I'm assuming it's what the report the rumor was earlier that they're essentially uh the the Marvel Avengers have been disassembled and uh yeah according to sources Crystal Dynamics the amount the announcement The Avengers the ceasing development could come as early as next week well it sounds like it came today uh guys that I'm told the game will remain available to fail digitally until at least September and that the efforts are being made to keep the game playable for existing owners as long as possible and that the remaining Talent are expected to move full-time to Crystal Dynamics new Tomb Raider title under Amazon games which I'm told is in full scale development uh and subject to mounting pressure in the lead up to the reveal later this year and I think I saw Tom Henderson the one and only um say something similar and actually say they might reveal Tomb Raider soon like next week um let me see if I can find it what did Tom say uh maybe I maybe it was like a a reply I saw uh and they're rebooting it again or I think so yes I think they are rebooting it good um yeah I don't know maybe I'm just totally just made that up but I don't see I don't see that thing from Tom but it definitely seems like they want to reveal Tomb Raider this year so it looks like Avengers is dead for all you fans of Avengers uh another live service game that ends up this is what happens when you make a live service game that doesn't meet expectations financially you know this is what happens to mobile games all the time yeah you know every mobile game free play is basically a live service and eventually uh you know the the player base is too small to maintain what the live Ops so they just they just get deleted and this is the way console gaming is going that Suicide Squad battle pass things immediately immediately made me not interested in the game yeah I was I was barely interested in it anyway but now it's like now I'm you know yeah I'm done with it I'm just not interested yeah well because there is so shout out to detective Caesar says have a great work weekend guys thanks for the great info uh information thank you for the uh support brother uh Dead Planet says is there really no Forza gameplay next week what the hell yeah I've seen this kind of floating around that there's going to be no Forza gameplay next week Jazz um yeah I have no idea about that um I mean if if it's if it's true they should probably get out and set expectations as appropriately I wouldn't I wouldn't have like I wouldn't have gone out there saying that you know Forza Forza Motorsport is like the flagship top flagship Topic at this event if I wasn't going to show anything um I wouldn't have made that decision personally but um I haven't got anything on my end to confirm that's true or false at the minute so I'm guess we'll have to wait and see yeah uh uh so yeah I mean you mentioned Suicide Squad um that like a leak image came out and people were wondering if it was real or fake um and I know the game is currently being play tested um so I I thought like oh it's currently being play tested and just happened to have a have a screenshot of the dash of the UI I'm like yeah this has got to be real and then people who are sharing it got the mc8 from Square Enix or dmca from Warner Brothers basically obviously saying it's true uh has a battle pass and you just said what like you're not interested now battle pass live service stuff right I pretty much wasn't interested anyway because I kind of I kind of figured it was going to be a live service when they announced all the cop stuff yeah four player co-op yeah but I didn't know they were gonna go this deep with it I thought it was going to be like you know like monsanta doesn't have a battle pass it's got a few Cosmetics you can buy on the Xbox store and they do these massive campaign expansions like that's the kind of live service I'm okay with it doesn't demand me it doesn't sort of like it doesn't sort of like um demand of me to play every day you know it doesn't it doesn't like it doesn't want to guilt-trip me or or use psychological tricks like fomo whatever and pressure me into playing every day my songs are just like yeah play whenever you want we're not gonna We're Not Gonna Take anything away there's nothing time limited there's nothing time gated it's just buy whatever Cosmetics you want whatever we don't care you know I'll support that but unfortunately the psychological tricks work at scale they work at scale you know we'll [ __ ] about them on the show and and you know core gamers are like really tired of it and stuff but it's sort of like yeah it's just oh man what a mess what the industry's in a mess it feels like the whole industry isn't a mess yeah like I mean layoff set 12 12 Battle Royale yeah 12 I mean but but it makes sense but you would expect you'd be soft to make 12 battle royale's because they're trying to [ __ ] throw anything at a while to see if it sticks and that's what's popular or was popular when all that stuff happened and clearly like oh well we some of these need to be canceled clearly right so for me that seems like awful business you want to make 12 games and expect and hope that one of them hits meanwhile the rest of them just flop to me that just seems like an awful business decision well I mean that could be the reasons that Ubisoft stock is down to like really low lows where somebody could easily come scoop them up if they really had a mind to it but then who wants to take on 20 000 employees right now essentially that isn't it's not bringing in Activision money probably not a lot not a lot of companies right 20 000 employees if everybody's getting rid of people like Google ate off 12 000 Microsoft lays off ten thousand Amazon leaves off 18 000 meta laid off eleven thousand Twitter laid off four thousand and Salesforce laid off eight thousand it's just all these tech jobs is gone it's just it's so sad to see and it's just all just for like the bottom line stock price Wall Street right you know it sucks um yeah so uh another thing Lucid games is now working on sea of Thieves they made the announcement does this mean Jazz that sea of Thieves is now under the hands of lucid and that the studio is kind of all all in on everwild or have third parties been helping with sea of Thieves for a long time and this is just a new third-party team helping unsee a thieves because it's so successful thinking about this because like I was wondering like hmm that's interesting does that mean that if they're Outsourcing the ongoing service for sea of Thieves they're committing more people to everworld because one of the ever wild producers recently tweeted something like excited to you know get into ever world this year I can't I can't remember exactly what she said but it was something it was something like it was like positive outlook for a year about everworld basically long story short and I was just kind of like hmm that's an interesting move I don't know if it means that you know maybe it doesn't but you're pretty cool if it did maybe maybe they're finally not because there was that whole Rumor Mill about like uh like uh them struggling to find their legs with um with uh struggling to find their legs with everyone like they didn't know what the gameplay loot was I think I think it was the was the rumor um but maybe they've nailed all that stuff down now and they're moving to a deeper phase of development or something that's quite exciting I think I don't know if you agree what's your take on that I don't know I know they've been using third parties for a while um I think even one of the studios that they've been using for help were just acquired by Sony so this could just be like we need another Studio to replace that studio that we lost so now they're just like lucids available it's just like okay well we need help and because it does seem like Xbox is doing a lot of co-developing right initiative working with Crystal Dynamics uh Idols is apparently helping with playground on Fable now you know some of these Studios working with sea of Thieves and rare we know a lot of third parties are helping with Halo and 343 on Halo infinite and future projects so it seems like that's becoming more of a common thing um it does certainly seem that way I mean it's it I suppose it's a way to mitigate costs in a way because if you want if you don't have to manage the teams or whatever then um I don't know uh Chuck says uh Jazz with perfect if Perfect Dark isn't coming anytime soon after focusing on Tomb Raider referring to Crystal Dynamics Crystal Dynamics yeah multiple teams though so Tomb Raider and a team that's working on Perfect Dark there was a post on I think it was either reset or Twitter where someone had claimed that um Perfect Dark had hit Road bumps in development or something but it's like this you know the typical sort of vague Xbox for you know like I would argue probably every game has Ro every game in development has a roadblock Road bumps and stuff like that you know what is a road bump you know it's it's a vague enough term like you know Jazz feelings feelings-based Jazz could could like uh start freaking out about right haven't you thought about that people reached out to you and said that development on Perfect Dark is going pretty good yeah I mean but that was a while ago you know and also like that that's the same kind of thing like yeah maybe development's going good but like there's no there's not a whole lot of context there you know I think ultimately a lot of this stuff is sort of like discussion for the sake of discussion and you know unless there's like a definitive expose about XYZ we just sort of have to take it for what it is that it's just rumor of speculation and the only thing that matters is the finished product and we all just hope that Perfect Dark will show up well and be good pretty much like we are with every Xbox game huffing the hopium hmm uh yeah so um Xbox direct as we got the next week predictions I did this kind of for fun because I saw that IGN did it and I saw that kind of funny did it um and I was kind of just like all right well you know whatever we'll talk about predictions and I'll ask you uh when do you think Forza Motorsport do you all right I guess I'll ask you this do you think because Aaron's being pretty hey these are the four games do you think it's just those four games and nothing else I guess we'll start there I'm pretty sure that there'll be more than those full games okay so you think there'll be more than those four games okay do you think of the four games mentioned well ESO really doesn't count because it's already out but Minecraft Legends hey uh redfall and um Forza Motorsport do you think we get release dates for all three of those games at the show all three all three Minecraft redfall and forzo isn't that fourth game well ESO but I mean eso's out so but only announcing the new expansion yeah but they are not but who cares I mean who who cares about the new expansion the esl's already yeah I'm not mean I mean that so here's the thing here's the thing I I was talking I was talking to my buddy about this I was just like the people tuning in to Washington what was he mean no he was he wasn't being mean but I was like the people tuning in to watch this live don't care about ESO and they probably don't even care about Minecraft Legends so you have to know your audience bro bro just because you don't care Minecraft Legends is going to be bigger than any of these games no it won't happen no it won't be yeah it will absolutely not are you serious yes absolutely yeah yeah I'm serious Minecraft Legends is going to be bigger than nope nope nope nope it's gonna be big in the world yep yep yep yep yep yep dude was Minecraft dungeons bigger than everything no it wasn't yeah 50 million 50 million what 15 million players 15 million players yeah wasn't it I don't know you tell me yeah imagine that I don't know maybe you imagined it I don't know that's feeling this feeling's based Jazz again there's feelings based jazz Minecraft dungeons a game that's probably gonna be 20 bucks yeah I mean whatever I'm just saying that people tuning in to watch I'm saying the people tuning in to watch it aren't I'm tuning in to watch Minecraft Legends so [ __ ] you you're like weird though your name's like Jeremy you're a weirdo bruh my name isn't Jeremy anyways the question I had proposed to you was will we see release dates for those three games Minecraft Legends Forza and redfall I think we'll save a release date for redfall and Minecraft Legends Forza um maybe not why don't you think so just a good feeling bro just to get but I mean if it's coming in the next few months as the headline of the direct says why wouldn't they have a release date did they not know yet I don't know bro so okay you think the force of Motorsport won't ever release date but you do think there's gonna be more things than the four uh I think there's going to be I think there's going to be some fun surprises okay do you think these we see the announcement of the Xbox game pass family plan for the US market yeah maybe maybe do you expect to have me more Game Pass announcements yeah I expect I expect against it to be a game past little segment yeah okay maybe we'll hear from like the The Game Pass leadership person the current member her name of some mad can you remember her name yeah maybe we heard from her answer there's a little presentation like what they've been doing a game pass you know probably reiterate the riot games partnership which uh is very annoying actually I I noticed that like if you install the game from Xbox game pass out it puts the right client on your PC and you can't uninstall it from the control panel you have to like dig through the files and literally delete the folder which is very weird um a spooky spyware stuff from tencent um but uh yeah I think we'll see a bunch of news about Game Pass I think we'll see maybe even new games maybe even major game Partnerships maybe they'll look at some of the third party stuff uh woh long for example um you know I I saw my colleague playing well long looks really good looks really great actually so I think like they'll rewrite some of that stuff I wouldn't be surprised if we see atomic heart there and that kind of stuff but um but yeah I think there's going to be new games I think there'll be a couple of new games maybe but that's based on that's based on nothing but rumors and speculation and feelings cheers that's why they're just predictions uh rambling Gamers says I don't care about it so nobody cares about it well dude what that I mean I don't care about Minecraft dungeons but I'm not saying that because I don't care about it that other people don't Minecraft Legends is jazz is right probably be big but the audience the Minecraft audience I'm what I'm saying is the Minecraft audience isn't tuning in to watch this Xbox developer direct yeah they are bro no they're not no come on you know they're not I should call it the Minecraft developer the rest probably maybe maybe wouldn't get more viewers then if they called it that but I'm just saying that the audience that is really interested in Minecraft Legends isn't the audience that's going to watch this live not saying that Minecraft Legends shouldn't be there that it shouldn't have a YouTube trailer that then you could show to that audience but the the audience that is gonna show up live to it are mainly going to be interested in redfall and Forza Motorsport information I think so you know just just because I'm not really interested in Minecraft I'm not saying it's like nobody's interested because clearly people are interested in Minecraft um I got to take this phone call Jess uh answer some questions okay answer some questions well first of all we got a super chat from farsman Minecraft Legends will charge Japan nothing else in that list will yeah exactly say everyone knows Minecraft Legends is going to be legendary you know uh I actually like uh I got to see Minecraft Legends behind the scenes at Gamescom uh developer playing an earlier build of it looks have a lot of fun it looks addictive as hell you know I some small kind of small gem it's my jam you know but maybe I'm weird like run says maybe I'm a bit weird give me some questions guys while we write for Rand to get back from taking this phone call live live podcasting this that's great maybe like when me and ran become like super duper podcast and millionaires like Joe Rogan we can have like we can have like a personal assistant to take Ryan's phone calls all the time it's probably Fair phone not phone up randomly like Rand what you what are you throwing me under the bus over over this three four three stuff around you know Phil's Phil's probably like Gun infarans blood right now uh Jazz needs to inform his contacts we need a cheese themed Xbox series X says Gilly I agree cheese themed Xbox series X but what cheese what cheese because honestly you know America's great food right America is really good at food but American cheese just not not it it's not it the British cheese is just so much better than American cheese American cheese like has no flavor in it whatsoever you know you need some you need some nice Cathedral City you know mature cheddar that's that's where you that's the kind of that's the kind of Xbox we need Cathedral City branded Xbox right now Jazz what do you think of one of the Activision card Studios doing the next Halo campaign after acquisition well I've been on the record multiple times I think I tweeted to Ryan McCaffrey this week actually I would love a Treyarch Call of Duty ODST make a whole Last Call of Duty about Halo ODST where you play as a soldier you fight in I don't know some Rogue faction of humans or something I suppose that's one reason they wouldn't do it because they don't like the human on human combat but they're having human on human combat in the Halo lore because wasn't there that whole like weren't the Spartans originally created specifically to combat humans or am I going crazy my other law is not that great so someone in chat will have to correct me I don't think the the Spartans weren't created to combat aliens were they they were they were created to shut down a revolution or something am I going crazy but anyway if they did like Halo ODST or maybe like maybe like they could do it where I don't know one team or ODSTs and the other team are brutes or something they could do it that way if they didn't want to do human or human combat I guess but but also like new zombie mode your zombie mode is the flood it's the game writes itself it's just like obvious to me that there should be a Call of Duty Halo game and I also say this is someone who doesn't like Halo Combat or would prefer a Call of Duty combat any day awake and Call of Duty's home for ideas they're hoping for ideas so bad they're remaking they're remaking the old Call of Duty again like we're gonna have Modern Warfare 3 remake again uh reimagining or whatever you want to call it you know go and run out of ideas they need ideas for that game franchise as well so uh yeah yeah everyone in chat uh everyone and everyone in chair agrees my great Call of Duty Halo game would be awesome give me some more questions sure because God knows who runs on the phone too I think maybe it's like Ryan's account and asking him to submit a tax return for all the millions of dollars that he's got from YouTube Fame and stuff um I want a third person survival horror who plays civilian during the Covenant Invasion and then a floating Fest uh flood infestation it writes itself says Stephen yeah I always I often see this this idea about having a a horror themed Halo game there's like there's so much stuff they could do with Halo there they just don't you know they actually do a team a team tactics version version of Halo as well I wouldn't mind if hailer if Hilo was if they did HAL Awards free make it more like Civ 4X strategy uh term based you know applicable to mobile and Cloud I think that would be really great you know I think Forex strategy is perfect for Halo you could do the whole Space combat stuff it could be really really good but alas we're not we're not really there yet with Halo right now it'll be it'll be it'd be nice if they could just get one Halo game right before we start branching out to all the other games I guess cheers did you get any impression from the person you spoke to who is playing Starfield you mean like gameplay impressions only sort of vague teases about how good it is you know I didn't really I didn't really do for details about what it is I really really wanted to ask if the game has Gore in it or if it has a 30 frames per second mode but it also kind of wanted wanted to respect the fact that you know they're not allowed to talk about it really so a lot of the stuff that they said were just sort of a really vague teasing and I didn't really want to dig any further than that but it just it just made me sort of hyped about it you know it sounded really optimistic and I'm optimistic and I think you guys should be optimistic too oh yeah Randy G I'm back is Wasteland a good game do you recommend it yes Wasteland is actually an amazing game uh amazing game franchise I would probably skip the original unless you like playing games from the 80s um but Wasteland two and three are both very very good I really like Wasteland too even though it's a little bit older it still holds up controls aren't great but if you can adjust the controls you'll have a blast it's a great RPG really really cool really rewarding Wasteland 3 is just brilliant it's just absolutely brilliant game hilarious writing absolutely [ __ ] up Ryan I mean excel's writing team is really really really warped you know you know like like obsidian obsidian has like this sort of sort of light-hearted sense of humor that's that can have like a dark Edge and so can Bethesda but in Exile there's just wading in Wading in you know borderline [ __ ] you're going to be arrested this kind of stuff I don't know obsidian's great uh in Exile is crazy I live in Excel Escape game like says did Jess get my question I mix it uh mister if it can you retype it again sorry about that yeah I can even do you have a list of super chats I might have missed um yeah sorry about that I normally wouldn't answer oh oh no no no I got it I got it I got it yeah it's all right um gone I normally wouldn't answer the phone but uh family little family emergency so I had to had to answer the phone oh hope it's all okay uh uh not really uh well nothing that is like Medical but um something happened and uh yeah it's not uh not a good thing you need to go no no I don't need to go it doesn't it doesn't involve me um but well um I just get these super chats real quick like skate light says jazz is Halo infinite Financial failure I haven't seen any diet saying that we don't know we don't know at the end of the day I mean the rumories that they've invested over a billion dollars in Halo infinite from personnel and and everything else I doubt hello infants made a billion dollars um so yeah it's hard to gauge at that point um and leaky home says if no Falls in Motorsport diet then turn 10 Xbox deserve firings it's a little bit extreme there leaky um and phosma said Minecraft Legends will try in Japan nothing else in that list well oh I already got that one but yeah um and then elitist edits says uh do you think Microsoft might turn three of three and some of my world ads and have them obviously the Halo IP and other devs pitch different ideas we did talk about that a little bit earlier but I I don't think they're going to turn three for three into like a World's Edge where it's they're just sort of the stewards of the IP or whatever and and do that kind of stuff that being said I think we did say that there's an expectation that certain affinities probably going to be picking up more of the Halo tab in the future than they have been but yeah I was the gist of our conversation about that but rant I'll let you go back to hosting though yeah uh Sean says love hearing random spawncast will just go on too uh they do it Saturday nights at 8pm my time I would imagine that's too late for jazz um if they even want a judge to come on I don't know yeah I'm gonna crumb says Starfield has Gore It's just minimal you can see it in the Showcase when you watch it at 4K so um BFA I want to see I want to see limbs flying and eyeballs yeah no I know you do I know you do you know um so uh BB BFA bb899 says where's the second DLC for Forza Horizon 5. probably coming sometime this year I don't know when maybe gets maybe they reveal it at this uh developer direct I mean it's been a been since the last one maybe they can announce it here I I I don't know um do you have any more direct predictions Jazz uh for this thing direct predictions nah not really we kind of talked about the stuff I mean I think we'll get release dates for all the games I think they'll be an announcement of a new game I think maybe they'll talk about Game Pass stuff uh but you know Aaron's Aaron's setting expectations properly I know a lot of people are expecting or at least think the last thing at the show will be them announcing the date for the Starfield show do you think that's a possibility I think that's a possibility I think that'd be a good way to close it yeah yeah but even that's like wouldn't that potentially overshadow the the rest of the show no because it's just like hey we got a star field show coming you know ex this this date I don't think I don't think it would um but anyways uh those are all the main topics we do have some questions from the wonderful Peter people at patreon.com xb2 where uh one of the perks is you can write in whatever you want and ask us these questions so I'm gonna get to these uh so if you guys are enjoying the show make sure you uh give us a like And subscribe if you're new uh we have one here from Kate rocks question for jez do you think we will ever get a popular MMORPG like World of Warcraft where players actually role play and be super social with each other hmm well sorry what what I mean the question was for you where is that I can't say it it's patreon question oh oh we're on patreon already yeah we're in patreon questions oh [ __ ] okay what was it again it's from Kate I gotta get it do you think we'll ever get popular uh because actually associate each other you know you can do that in World of Warcraft you know there are there are role-playing servers in World of Warcraft where you you are supposed to portray your character are you aware of this round no I'm not aware of that all right well I'm gonna I'm gonna blow your mind right now I play on a role-playing server in World of Warcraft okay and you know what you have to do on a role playing server in World of Warcraft what do you have to do you have to pretend to be your character bro pretend to be your character okay so you have to like when you when you when you talk in in like say chat you're like you're like you know you're you're a goblin you have to you have to be a goblin bro you have to you have to you know barter and and no no right um okay are you you have to be a goblin man it's role play you're never role play in your life no I mean when you're a little little kid like um pretend to be Sonic or something oh you know what I I forgot a topic does so when you answer this question we got we got one more topic we need to discuss I'm sorry I totally forgot something something that's even in the title well I yeah I was kind of confused because I thought hang on is that it but but yeah I mean hang on is that it the Trail's already three hours long what do you mean yeah really yes it's like it's gone quick but anyway yeah I I don't think there'll be a game where uh I'm my way to just role-playing because it's kind of a niche thing I think for most people well I think it's fun I think it's fun to be a fun to role play you know yes um but back to the topic I missed uh scale bound Oh scaba I thought we talked about that no that's another thing we did not know another special Nick yeah that is but uh we didn't actually properly address it because Nick made this claim we talked about it on Xbox 2 ultimate um and Nick made the claim on on his show on Xbox air last week that Xbox and platinum are working together and that they signed an early agreement and that scale bound is going to be brought back from the dead and I feel like this is directly just to annoy me and me personally you made the rumor up to annoy you no I didn't even make the rumor up to annoy him I just sort of like because like this show every somebody always brings up scale bound like wants to show right there's always these rumors almost seems like every single year like clockwork somebody says it's coming back it's being revived you know and it's always not true and then here's one from Nick and it's just like you know it could be true and the funny thing is is you had told me that you heard similar rumors yeah yeah which makes it more like whoa wait a minute so Nick is saying this and that you're also hearing similar rumors what is going on this is this is one of those like I rumors I don't believe kind of thing but you didn't you didn't believe Nick about the gears collection but you're starting to come around about that one yeah it's it's kind of like again this isn't this isn't this isn't a physical evidence facts based jizz okay this is not a this is not a jazz leaking developer direct because we've got physical evidence okay this is more of a like hmm that's an interesting an interesting uh uh an interesting uh proposition um the you know the the sort of like a source that has given accurate information in the past sort of hint of that I guess you could say and it's kind of like man is this is are we really doing this you know so like right now I still personally don't believe it um I don't believe scar band's coming back but I will say that it kind of feels like the the odds of it may be coming back are slightly elevated so if we sort of like if we're gonna we're gonna start writing Nick's rumors okay how many Nicks out of ten are you gonna give this one I give this I give this room a four Nicks out of ten four Nicks out of ten okay I gave this one before next out of ten um personally maybe even three Nicks out of ten but it's not zero Nicks out of ten okay she's I I see here's the thing I could totally see Xbox and platinum working together again I could totally see it and I'm not against it because I do think Platinum when they have the right people on a project can create amazing games but then we've also seen it when they don't they create [ __ ] like babylon's fall and turn up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles right so it's like which Platinum game team are you getting the ones that did near automata are you gonna the ones that did Metal Gear Rising Revengeance you're getting the ones that did astral chain Bayonetta or you're getting the ones that did the [ __ ] games right so I could totally see with Xbox wanting to make more Japanese exclusives partnering with Kojima for his game partnering with Platinum I could totally see that happening and I could totally see Platinum wanting to be like all right let's do this let us bring back scale bound because they've talked about it uh I think Kami has talked about it right wanting to do scale bound again or whatever and there's a part of me that even thinks Xbox would be okay with that because they would look at it like a PR win like here's a game that was canceled and now we're working with Platinum again coming back together despite you know canceling the game and it's a it's like a like a break like basically completion of a promise so like I could see the P the the wheels the pr spinning about how it would make sense but then it's like but the scale bond that they were making wouldn't be the scale bound of now and scalebound is the name also has a ton of baggage as a canceled game and the game that people may have built up in their head might be better than the game that actually releases so it does have some negatives attached to it but I would like to see Xbox partner with Platinum so I could see I could see Platinum wanting to do this so yeah it could be an interesting like success story yeah game that revived from the Dead saved and then ended up being really good when has that ever happened really when the game's been very public publicly canceled and then uncanceled and then was actually good when has that ever happened it probably has happened but I can't think of a time when it happened I can't think of a time either but we do have an amazing incredible Super Chat here from detective seeds 100 bucks who says here's a hundred dollars let's hear Jazz's role play voice as his Goblin character yes let's go let's go is that a hundred dollars for me then I mean sure I'll charge you taxes for it yeah let's go let's get the Goblin character do your role play let's go come on oh man time is money friend don't get the [ __ ] out of here that's not your Goblin character voices he paid a hundred dollars to hear your Goblin character voice and that's the voice you're gonna give them that's the goblin voice from where like you know you don't talk you type so I don't know what my Goblin sounds like but all goblins and wow sound like New Yorkers you know okay so so speakers uh New Yorker then uh oh my god well that's what they say they say time is money friend because that's what they say because they're obsessed with gold that's what that's what waffling say um no no yes that's a lot that's a lot of money for that that is that's why I'm saying I'm disappointed for him because he paid a lot of money right here and Dave says that's your American Voice it is that is literally what goblins sound like and well I I I'm trying to think of some of some of their other voice lines but I just can't they always say time is money from so but you don't you don't talk to when you're you're in voice chat to the people playing with you they're talking to guys that'd be so cringe you talk you text you text man you don't speak like the government says laugh my ass off you got to give us more than that three to four sentences for a hundred bucks he's a hundred percent right I feel bad for the time just just just just just do it like a fake manscaped ad read as the goblin voice Jesus Christ no come on I'm sorry refund him I can't refund super chats they're unrefundable hahaha oh man you're gonna have to figure it out I feel I feel bad for detective seeds he pays up something and all he's gonna get is time is Manny friend that's all he that's all what are those things some goblins say I don't know what do you mean you don't know you've been playing the game for 15 years and you don't know what goblins say I literally I literally cannot think oh my God what else they say man I'll have to like I'll have to like do some research maybe I'll come come back to it next week for it come back next week for it yeah yeah yeah I don't know shout out to our sponsor like come on Jazz just do something in the goblin voice make it worth detective seeds money on this no God damn it man refund him man dude send send Randy your cash out link or whatever yeah but yeah but Google's gonna take 30 from it too so yeah I apologize detective seats I apologize for what am I performing monkey I mean yeah people say give us leaks Jazz and you be like you know you give them leaks uh banana peel Jack says horde RP servers don't count as only Alliance do and uh I don't know man there's some I've had some good uh hold up here in my in my years and Dead Planet says I'd like an emergency day gears game without the armor makes the locus scary and brings an element of survival Horrors filling without the Cog Tech so uh mvg modern Rich scammer what's going on man he says GoldenEye at the developer director Or Nah I heard Rand wants to play it immediately oh Jesus yeah jazz is gold and I gonna be there developer Direct I know I don't know but what I do know is that it's gonna have a lot of DRM it's gonna have a lot of DRM what does that mean yeah it's gonna have trm I don't know of course we will do you love DRM I mean the smart Adventures Gamers like gotta gotta Winston pan every time he plays it like oh CRM DRM yeah mvg and the DRM stuff yes yeah it does not liked the area we need to get mvg on Xbox two plus one as well yeah we do yeah we can we can discuss DRM for an hour and why it's very necessary and important no no no well we could talk about DRM with him but he's more than just DRM jazz uh uh Penta says Jazz voice sounds like John Malcolm John Malkovich rounders yeah it kind of does it kind of does I I have no idea who that is you don't even know who's that John Malkovich yes do you know who John Malkovich is what I've never you had you never have to know who John Malkovich I've never I have no ideas that is it's gonna be something American thing probably oh my God doesn't even know who John Malkovich is come on tell me what who is he he's a he's a worldwide known actor who's been in a bunch of roles he's incredible amazing like Being John Malkovich in the line of fire uh red I mean let's let's go to IMDb and look up some of the movie you know who he is I I I literally do not know and I don't know any of those movies you just said I didn't make any of that up name of name of famous movies in uh Being John Malkovich uh hold on let me bring up his page in IMDb uh hang on he's got it he's he's got a whole movie about himself that's that's pretty egotistical well I mean it's it's you'd have to understand Jazz it's you know I don't I don't understand Rand I don't understand a lot clearly not clearly not give us give us the names of some of some of these movies I just did in the line of fire red Bing John Malkovich rounders there's a whole there's a whole bunch of them Con Air Con Air you've never seen Conair with Nicholas Cage never heard of Conor I know a nickel cages though Cyrus the virus come on you know never heard of it what kind of movies are these are they action movies I mean Connor is an action movie yeah anyways I know I know Clinton Eastwood is Clint Eastwood he's in a movie with Clint Eastwood in the line of fire where Clint Eastwood is protecting the president and John Malkovich is the guy trying to kill the president is he a cowboy in the line of fire yeah kindness was a cowboy not in line of fight he is also uh in an Of Mice of Men uh he was Lenny I believe or maybe maybe Lenny was Gary Sinise I forget which one Of Mice and Men gives me PTSD because it reminds me of English church school um that's Lenny um I forget which one he was I forget Who's Who and and of my cement it's been a long time since I've read the book and seen the movie rip uh yeah detective C says jez has never heard of Conair no wonder Brits lost the war against us Jesus uh-huh wow dude I forgot to do timestamps a bunch really yeah why how could you how'd you how could you forget through timestamps well I forgot well I got most of them but I didn't do a timestamp for when the Q a session started well it really hasn't started it's about to start literally right now because you know now we're getting into the patreon stuff uh shout out to risk it for the biscuit he says Jazz are you serious right now bro Con Air anyway Tim Tam's better Xbox better and silence Cipher says I was willing to accept Jazz not doing a goblin voice but he doesn't know John Malkovich jez you have homework now you're getting called out man you're getting called out by everybody in chat for not knowing who John Malkovich is and especially for not knowing Conair dude this is like probably all really old movies from your generation My Generation bro you're almost to your 40s you're almost old what are you talking about now I'm young I'm young no you're not young anymore I'm 24 man what are you talking about no you're not Jeremy my name's not Jeremy God damn it oh God I love it it's so great but yes that's horrible uh time for the Q a so you can make a little little note here Jazz yeah I'm at a little narrow don't worry wonderful people at patreon.com xb2 uh you can sign up uh we should have Jeff grobanz soon for Xbox two plus one sometime towards the end of the month after the direct I can't wait to talk to him about that but let's go so uh CJ ad93 says question for Rand what was the most difficult game you played to get all the achievements for me it was Solitaire interesting question the most difficult game most difficult game um I mean there was game like I still remember doing Dead Space 2 with only three saves that was tough but also fun uh maybe difficult I don't know it was difficult to play some of the connect games to get all the achievements because I had to bribe my sisters that's more like a different kind of difficult you know what I mean where it's like oh my God what am I doing with my life I'm literally paying one of my sisters to play Sesame connect with me Sesame Street connect or do uh like a Victorious dancing or Nickelodeon dance and I needed an extra person to stand there like those are difficult in a different way where you're like am I a loser and you're like yeah you are it's like God damn it am I am I a loser uh I remember that I you know you know like I got like my life flashed before my eyes when you said that because I I remembered how I felt when I was weighing up going to a World of Warcraft raid or going to my end of year exams and I was thinking I kind of felt like I'm gonna change the course of my life with this decision and uh guess what I chose around would you choose the warcraft yes the warcraft one I mean difficult um yeah I mean the one that really sticks out is the Dead Space 2-1 uh three saves to beat that game was definitely probably maybe the most tense I've been because it's like you die and it's like you start to start over that was that was pretty that was pretty intense uh Paul Prout says with the closure of stadia do you see competition heating up between geoforce now and xcloud I remember there being talk of games you own working on xcloud even if they aren't in Game Pass is that still happening yeah dude I believe that's still happening where they're gonna get games you you own into Game Pass so you you know it's not just the pool because like I've been burned a couple of times where games like I've been playing like Scarlet Nexus for example I was playing scholar Nexus pretty much exclusively on xcloud and I never finished it I was about maybe three quarters of the way through it um and uh I was playing on xcode pretty much exclusively because it plays really well on xcloud and then uh they pulled it and now I can't play a neckline anymore so yeah gg gg please um but yeah uh I believe that's still happening what was the other part of that question uh the other part was uh competition heating up between geoforce now and xcloud with stadia gone G-Force now um yeah so potentially the pro the problem with GeForce now is that it's never gonna have any exclusives that's pretty much the issue with GeForce now there's never going to be like exclusive content and not only that they're competing with steam cells I mean it's like a lot of the time it's kind of like why would I why would I bother you know playing this on GeForce now when I can just get on Steam man you know because it's it's kind of the PC audience right in a way um so because the the games that they are the PC versions of the games and the pretty much GeForce now just loads up a steam client in a sandbox it's really weird actually um so yeah I mean they're going to try and heal competition sure but they're always going to be sort of I think they're always going to be one step behind Xbox who bring exclusives and also have a more curated Library um as well it's not and also the bespoke touch controls I think console versions of games just make a lot more sense for this kind of what they're trying to do here but you know but GeForce now does have an edge when it comes to raw quality and that's because they have all the technology to do that in they've got the graphics cards and you know and the servers and all that kind of stuff whereas Xbox has to partner with AMD for it and um maybe amd's Tech isn't as good I don't know but GeForce now does seem to have an edge when it comes to streaming latency and all that kind of stuff but yeah I think they'll they'll they will try and hit up competition but this is a there's a hard cap on how far they can go I think but yeah good question I think it's going to be interesting I do think you'll be able to play your games at some point uh they said that was their intent to get it launched this year uh didn't happen uh maybe the holdups the licenses and trying to get deals done that that seems to be more the case so uh Army dude 52c says first time riding in but I was thinking of movie adaptations what are your thoughts about a Hunger Games video game also would you make it open world or the style of the dark pictures anthology open world problems yeah I mean Hunger Games could work although I sort of feel at this point in time it's been it's been a while since the movies and the the books have not as popular as they once been like the boat is sort of sailed on Hunger Games stuff they there is a prequel movie coming but I mean like the height of Hunger Games when it was it's Apex has come and gone that if they were going to do a video game they should have did it then yeah um but I could see when he says by dark pictures I could see you know you you have a battle royale thing and I could see uh like making your decisions and who lives and who dies I could see it like that but I would have it more like action-based semi-open World experience um we have one here from Lord pimp King fellas I'm here today advocating for first party horror game I also hate to get into the choir acquire choir talk but I think red barrels the Outlast devs would be a great addition to Xbox what are your thoughts I'm with you I actually agree yeah I 100 agree with you I think there needs to be more first party horror stuff there isn't a lot well this year is kind of a Renaissance of first of horror with you know Resident Evil and the kalista protocol which just came out Dead Space res um what else am I thinking of uh Resident Evil Dead Space at least the protocol there's there was another game uh but either way oh that game from Amnesia divs yeah I mean even the Outlast uh they got they got their own game doubtless Trials yeah um yeah I would I wouldn't mind uh you know grabbing them and having to make some horror games you know first party wise I'd I'd be totally down for that totally down uh Ryan kipple says a lot of news this week but I don't want to miss the most important update Rand how is Shakespeare doing Shakespeare is doing good um he's been eating both of his meals and his surgery is scheduled for the end of February about Shakespeare what about Shakespeare well we're talking in DM and you were like I've got to go upstairs because I need to address Shakespeare and I said I didn't say that you said something like I gotta go upstairs because of Shakespeare and I said well get me a Shakespeare video then and you didn't do it I'm sorry I'll do it one of these times when usually at night like right now Shakespeare is sleeping it's he's most active during the day and I you know I always forget to take photos videos of them I'll I'll get one for you I'll get one for you the whole point of having a pet is to get pictures of him for social media that's the whole I don't really use social media social media can be toxic toxic oh how could I not see the katakuga oh my God Luke Plunkett Luke Plunkett Jesus Christ kataku one of the one of the worst gaming websites out there maybe one the one the one that's the most toxic itself right coming from Luke Plunkett one of the most toxic writers at uh like literally you know land-based Phil about his speech about like diversity and all this sort of stuff and he's like the man in charge of the most toxic fan base like equating like Phil has any sort of ownership over over the fans of Xbox and then and then and then saying all the fans of Xbox are toxic right and he's like and then so he qualifies an entire fan base as toxic so what do you expect happens you have all the Xbox fans coming back being like I don't know you know the toxicity exists everywhere and then he's like if you try to come in here and tell me not all Xbox fans you're blocked it's just dude look into a mirror my guy look into a mirror seriously you're complaining about toxicity and that you may you make a toxic tweet yourself Luke is basically nothing more than a console Warrior that writes for Kotaku I'm sorry he's been like that for years you can go scroll through his articles he is what he is he's basically a console Warrior and to just to just label everybody as an Xbox fan toxic and then you try to tell me no you're blocked you know and and then to use that as evidence of like see I told you so look at all the hate I'm getting uh-uh dude you ain't slick he ain't slick my guy yeah imagine a dude from Kotaku talking about toxicity from Kotaku of all places get the [ __ ] out of here yeah it's a projection it's projection yeah God anyways uh what else we got here more uh patreon questions um Ralph Wiggum so say guys my wife has a question if you could have your memory wipe to experience read a book for the first time again what book would it be oh oh that's an interesting what book would it be geez I don't know it runs I don't know rand's take on this I can't really help with this question because I've read no box I mean probably would have to be see I that's that's a that's a very tough question because I would I would say something in The Wheel of Time but I'm also older now and just like wiping my memory of one book of the wheel time doesn't help so it would have to be like wiping my memory of an entire series and if that was the case it'd be Wheel of Time but if it was a singular book or I could like wipe it it probably would be It from Stephen King or maybe the stand from Stephen King like a singular book where I could wipe it and read it again um because like those are two of my favorite books from Stephen King and like you know I want to do a reread of it but I also remember a lot of what happens in it even though I haven't read the book in a long time so that my memory of of the book of it is pretty much almost wiped as is it'd be it'd probably be one of those uh fantasy series though to have to be a series and I would choose Wheel of Time simply because I would love to experience wheel time again for the first time I'll risk it says the magician from Raymond Feist he was uh that was the author in the series that got me into reading in the first place brother uh I was a sophomore in high school like 1996 or whatever that was and we had to read a bunch of books from my honors English class class oh I can't speak and we had to read magician apprentice and magician master and I remember getting that book and then dreading reading it right like who wants to read who wants to read books for school right but I remember to read books yeah I know but I remember reading magician Apprentice and I like read through that book in like five days and I loved it so much that by the time we had a month to read it so by the time that month was up I had already already read magician master I had already read Silverthorne and darkness at stefanon and the King's Buccaneer and um the print the prince of the blood like I had already like gotten so far into the the whole series that uh you know like when we had to take the test and write the report on it like I was already halfway through with the series at that point in time oh man and that's what got me into fantasy I read Raymond Feist the red magician the rift War Saga and then I started to get into other stuff and that's how I discovered Wheel of Time and that's how I got into Stephen King because he was right in the Dark Tower and got into that's how I discovered also Game of Thrones at the time when it was A Song of Ice and Fire before it was this huge thing yeah it was all because of Raymond Feist and all because of that uh teacher in my sophomore year of high school who gave me it as an assignment so uh lithium says Rand why do you make no Xbox top 10 tier list retrospectives I mean maybe I will I just have to be really interested in it to do it and I just haven't really wanted to do something like that so hey I'm planning on doing that see Jess's because it's easier to just write that stuff than it is make videos about no I'm making I'm making videos about it okay well there you go he's just making videos about it I'm gonna do it because Ran's too damn lazy no I'll do it what lazy and also I think I remember Rand doesn't do doesn't do retrospectives because Rand only has interest in trending topics trending games and trending topics yeah that's why I played cluster protocol a month after it came out and Eva West like two months after still trending no it's not no nobody's trending get out of here with that like oh what about you Mr World of Warcraft is it like you only playing trending games a monster hunter rise please like you don't play only trending games either get out of here stop it jazz um what else we got here we have the bearded tail or the bearded Tate saying what do you think about Microsoft's big investment in open Ai and do you think that Microsoft will try to make GPT Tech exclusive to Xbox when it comes to Ai and games yeah so that's like that was the meme that I so shared a lot this week was that Microsoft's firing everyone because they're going to have chat GPT do everything so for those who don't know chat GPT is like this it's like this super computer brain basically that reads the internet and can contextualize content and rearrange it basically into semi-intelligently and um you know Microsoft has Microsoft doesn't own chat GPT but they have exclusive rights to the commercial application of chat GPT owing to a an earlier 20 billion dollar investment I think in the common 10 billion dollar like back in the day so Microsoft investing in in open AI early and they got in and they got all these all these exclusive rights right so technically yeah they could use chat gbt in games they could use chat EBT on Xbox to do predictive text and stuff like that um we're only really just starting to see them apply some of open AI stuff to their products like Bing as now as image generator attacking it and Visual Studio has code generation Tech in it which is powered by chat gbt I believe co-pilot I think they call it so yeah some of that stuff will directly make its way to Xbox when it makes sense but um I think they're sort of focused on Azure right now the low hanging fruit I guess for for making a lot of money and then maybe later on they'll be like hey Xbox do you want to have a look at some of this stuff you know but Microsoft has a team within Xbox um that is dedicated to the staff and Rand do you know who leads this team who leads it it's our old buddy whose name I can't remember the guy in my next cloud representing cream chowdery yes Kareem Chargers so Kareem chaudry I believe is actually looking into applying some of this technology um to Xbox and that's his current role so Kareem is obviously a genius um and his team is full of geniuses and they are they're charged with exploring this stuff so yeah I suppose watch this space right yeah I sound safer and Mr super Chase says Jazz you are our age indeed he is he likes to pretend he's young but he ain't Young no more so I'm young yeah and if you guys missed it what was it was it during the Xbox 2 ultimate show where we where we did the whole uh chat GPT thing and read out the AI oh yeah we did a Rand poet you spent 30 minutes making stuff up and getting stories or whatever remember yeah that was fun let's not do that the Randall poem I remember the Randall poem and the Randall rap indeed I remember those I'm going to generate one right now no we're not doing that we are doing it anyways moving on next question Haiku I'll do a high school we're not all right do a haiku do a short one okay chat GP I love this [ __ ] man right let's do a Rand Haiku okay um okay right around around haiku I gotta sign in now oh God yeah okay I'll do the next question Silas the next question he says what games Define you not so much your favorite games to play but if someone asked you what game best represents you as a man what would it be for example May allegedly hate playing Pokemon but maybe the cute cuddly creatures best represent who he is that is what best represents me as a man playing video games oh man that's an interesting question yeah I've never really thought about chat what represents you as a man or a woman the playing video games we love channels like I think my Channel's like two percent two percent female uh I think it's like I think it's like 97 or something I'm not sure on the podcast demographics but what uh what game best resent represents you as a man or a woman let me know let me know what your guys's responses would be in chat uh King house is Donkey Kong okay okay all right uh I I don't even know to answer this question what represents me David Martinez says scale bound canceled yeah yeah okay yeah that's great banana peel Jackson's Dark Souls okay all right I get that the jakester says Red Dead Redemption 2 fortnite and Persona 5 Royale okay Piet Jan says Viva Pinata uh Jazz's lawnmower simulator why I don't know my buddy Ben DOA says Dead or Alive extreme beach volleyball of course it would be dealing of course that would be the game that you would pick that best fits you right this is a great question uh South Mall says Peppa Pig yeah man I think I think for me it's limbo limbo yeah I'm just stuck in limbo maybe maybe for me thrown it on maybe for me it's that game called uh OMG YouTubers life well speaking of that do you want to hear do you want to hear you do you want to hear you give me give me my Haiku that the AI just came up with all right this is the height this is the haiku for Rand it's YouTube Fame brings Rand to the spotlight his wit shines bright entertaining that's it that's that's yeah it's a haiku I I know what a haiku is I don't know YouTube Fame brings shines bright entertaining wait even a haiku dance this AI sucks man yeah this AI does they did it [ __ ] wrong all right that's right short poem about Rand the YouTuber right short poem about around the YouTube okay it's thinking okay Rand on the screen his wit and humor beams entertainment Supreme what I always got a sense of humor apparently [Laughter] I love this shirt man now my buddy uh Daniel says Halo 2. and that DOA lied his is Pokemon go yeah yeah you calling out DOA on that one his his one definitely is Pokemon go it's not It's Not Dead or Alive extreme volleyball do away DOA is a type of dua's literally somebody just he's been playing Pokemon go since it launched he literally has four phones to play Pokemon go with and he puts one of his phones in a cradle so it swings so he can get like walk time to like get stuck like he's like he's literally extreme when it comes to Pokemon I haven't seen this personally but I've been told in confidence this is how do DOA he's even convinced some of my friends to like do Pokemon raids with them and stuff but he's like hardcore he's hardcore you know imagine having four phones for the express purpose of playing Pokemon go I mean that's like this kind of it's not dissimilar from you playing like Bobby for achievements and stuff here we go here we go it's true though I've never done anything like that because I'm not I'm not a master I honestly don't know what would sum me up best as a person maybe Mass Effect as like a story you know like dashing Adventurer solving problems that's me right no no no it'd be like it'd be one of those weird games about books well I was trying to think of one that has books but I couldn't I don't know Mass Effect that's why that's what I go with uh we got a question here from Omen so there are some rumors that say 343 will no longer be creating additional campaign content for Halo and Outsourcing it to other Studios overall how are you feeling on this what studio Xbox or otherwise do you think Microsoft might realistically pick to take the helm on the Halo story well we talked about that already uh and I think you said that that was mostly false right speculation that wasn't true yeah but we do expect someone like certain Affinity to maybe make the next Halo game I'm sorry go ahead you can my bad yeah I was just saying like yeah we already talked about it but it's probably going to be a certain affinity for anyone who picks up some of the mantle of Halo but we'll see yeah maybe maybe they'll outsort it to CD project red and we get we get like a hardcore RPG yeah that'll never happen that would never happen I don't know um let's see we still got a couple more uh Jasper chap says which Fable is your favorite and why uh I would probably say I would say probably Fable one it's the one I played the most uh Fable 2 would be a very close second but I I would say Fable just because I think at the time it was a very unique experience for me um being able to be like the evil and the good um and it was just it was just a really really fun game to play um so it would be the first fable and I'm you probably I'm not really modifiable yeah I figured as much not really a fan of anything outside of World of Warcraft right I just I just think it's overrated but I never really I never really had Nostalgia for the first game I I actually owned the first game but I didn't replay it um much um I don't know why maybe maybe it was maybe overlapped with Warcraft Edition again I don't know but I play Halo 2 uh fabled not Halo 2. Fable 2 was the one I I played the most as I suppose that would be my favorite one technically because it had the doggo in it if nothing else and I do it like uh didn't really do much with the co-op stuff because it was just kind of like you're dropping someone else's game and couldn't really carry the progress across very well I mean I think some bits of progress carried across but not others but um I don't know I remember playing like a dude with a with a Gun and shooting people and their the little eyeball popped out and stuff and that was pretty funny but yeah I'm not a huge fan of Fireball I'm really I a lot of people say like a lot of people call out fables humor and they're like yeah the the new one really needs to be more humorous but I still want it to be a little bit more serious I mean I think it can retain some of the British toilet humor that it has but I also sort of do well no I'm saying retain some of it I I do want it to be a little bit more serious take but not saying that you couldn't have some of that humor that made fable fable right I just don't want them to go full on embrace the British toilet humor of kicking chickens and farting right you know president because like Fable had a dedicated fart button like yeah haha that's funny when you're 15 or whatever not not so much funny anymore at least to me but all right uh Mythic Marty says should Phil come out with the statement about Halo How Can Microsoft expect fans to trust them with beloved franchises with the way Halo has been handled I don't like the idea of work for our Studios taking stabs of Halo recipe for another Crackdown 3. Halo deserved better well I mean uh the the email that Phil wrote to employees did leak we did read that off and um like Jess says he thinks that 343 will come out eventually to talk about Halo at some point right you did say you thought they would come out um yeah I think they'll go public soon yeah yeah and I mean I I like I brought up my uh you know concerns about relying on third parties that you don't own to to do stuff because that is a recipe for what happened during the Xbox one generation and I'd rather them not do it and um yeah it's like you know I have concerns it's like you mismanage halo how do you how's that how how did you end up screwing up halo that bad it's like are you the right people to manage Call of Duty at that point you know there's the questions that need to be answered it's like you know I will find out maybe if they remain hands off with Call of Duty and let the Activision run it but clearly keeping hand being hands off on Halo wasn't the right answer right answer or or maybe they meddled I don't know because there are some people saying that upper management meddled maybe during like the Terry Meyerson days um instead of just letting them do Halo I saw I don't who knows what really happened besides the people that work there and they're probably all all under NDA and can't talk about it uh sleet says hey Jess what are your thoughts on major Publishers mismanagement of Ip staff developers and internal controversies like harassment that seems so prevailing in recent years ubisoft's statement to their staff being the most recent example where is the industry going with so much consolidation no job security and work environments that have toxic reputations man that's like that's a tough question it's multifaceted and it's difficult to answer you know because I don't have the same kind of sourcing as some of some of the other journalists out there who talk sort of intimately about these kind of issues um you know I just I just don't have those kind of sources um you know I don't I don't push people to give me that kind of information I mean I'd be happy to report if I did get that information but I'm not actively seeking it out because I think it's kind of awkward to to go to someone and be like you know tell me about all the terrible things that happened to you you know it's it's hard you know to figure that out and figure out a way to to sort of you know offer the service of amplify and Injustice in as in a respectful way I think um or whatever you know I mean I'd like to do that and I'd be happily do that and I have done that in the past but it's not something I I actively you know do in my job role so it's it's really hard to answer that in a simple way but I do think um you know unionization is probably going to be an aspect of improving the industry and we've seen like a massive swing towards pro-unionization in recent years I think part of that is because of a generalized a generalized issues with distribution of wealth I think there's a view that you know the rich have got richer and richer and richer while the rest of us have have not um a trickle-down economics and you know all that kind of stuff get into a deep discussion about capitalism then and uh you know all that kind of stuff but like yeah the whole thing with the Ubisoft CEO is a super weird and tone deaf and I actually thought like Satya nadella's statements were similar similarly putting the the onus on the the remaining employees at Xbox too my next uh Microsoft in general actually to sort of um why is Alexa talking um like Satya Nadella did it as well he put He put the responsibility on on the staff to to dig deep and you know find find you know growth in a in a depressed economy and it's kind of like well hmm maybe if you guys didn't like over expand during the pandemic to take advantage of of a situation you know maybe you know it won't be in this situation you know if if we didn't have a system where um investors leech the profits that could be going to workers who actually make the content that we enjoy so they can go and buy yachts and stuff um maybe things will be different you know so yeah but the thing about our economic system is these Cycles come and go boom bust you know and this is we're in our depression cycle you know a recession cycle and the tech is vulnerable during the recession you know a lot of luxury goods and things that aren't as necessary in life potentially um and then it'll flip around and we'll we'll go back to the the other thing and the investment will come back and interest rates will go down back again to really low and yeah it's just Cycles in Cycle Zone that's just the way it is but yeah it's a it's a really complicated question um hard to answer in the podcast but it's a good one it's a good question uh tenant ovb says uh just off lost my job in Tech moments like this make me want to support people that bring happiness in my life and never ask for money much love well I'm sorry to hear that you lost your job and um you know we that's why we tried to do our Xbox too is just you know have fun and have you know make people happy as I guess so thank you for your support and for being here and uh yeah if anybody has any questions to chat we'll try to take some just at me or Jazz I'll try to do my best to round them up but um yeah I want to thank all the patreons for dropping their questions in there uh I love I love getting a lot of the really inspiring ones I don't know the the fun ones right there I love the way some of them think they think outside the box give us some really cool things to think about like I never thought I was like what game best represents me as a man Bobby yeah um yeah a lot going on this week next week we will be back most likely on Friday I don't think we're gonna do a show right after the we're not doing a show right after the developer direct right uh is that the same time it's like Wednesday it would be like Wednesday it's like it's on a 2 p.m I'll be too busy yeah we're we'll so we'll be back with the Xbox 2 on the 27th obviously talking about all the things that are happening with the developer direct and what we saw and if there's any release dates or new announcements you know so we'll be back then in a week to talk about all those things and um yeah we have a question here from detective seeds ran do you guys have any inclination of where Indiana Jones IP stands I have no clue do you have any idea Jazz no clue no idea sorry mate yeah sorry I mean maybe we see it this summer I mean the movie is releasing this summer maybe we see a trailer for the game you know that'd be good that'd be some good synergy uh I think that's a possibility Dave says did you did you read pick a path books as a kid no what is pick a path books or flip to page 12 or flip to page 50. I think maybe I've read one but it wasn't something that I did a lot I think I think I maybe I read one of one of those in my life um I I I also read one actually yeah I saw that I never read any books but you know I never read any series books I used to read Goosebumps books as a kid I had a bunch of Goosebumps books I really loved those and uh one of the good there was like a series of pick pick a path Goosebumps books and I had I had one and I hated it I was like man I just wanna I just want a normal book I don't have to make choices which is weird because now I actually you know prefer games that let me make a choice but I don't know um it's like uh Zach Riley says did you guys see the WWE 2K 23 cover and release date leaked last night I did it's John Cena on the cover and I think it's coming like March 17th John Cena John Cena yeah he's he is getting out of it he is definitely what did I mean what did I read as a kid like I remember reading The Hobbit I mean there's a game books you always read in grammar school like out I read Ender's Game you know I read um the giver and like of my Of Mice and Men and old man in the sea and you know in high school I read a bunch of Shakespeare read Beowulf um you know I read Hamlet and a whole bunch of stuff from Shakespeare and then you know I read some some of that fantasy like magician and then that kind of started me on my whole like love of science fiction fantasy horror Thriller that I rediscovered last year so um yeah that that's kind of what happened with me so uh rambling gamer guy wants to know is it true that the Bethesda layoffs were mainly in the publishing division due to overlap jazz I mean it does seem like they wanted Bethesda to cut down and they have focused on areas of overlap but I did see a couple of producers get laid off here and there I wonder I actually I have no idea how they choose how people get laid off I mean I think I said at the start of the show it's not like actually I think I just said this I said this to Rand before we went live but like when a Windows Central or or future PLC you know who own us when they're like looking to make savings it's really simple you just pull up the the writers look at all their content and then look at how much money it's made and it's like well we're paying this right a 50 Grand or 40 Grand or 30 grand or whatever it is and um they're made only 10 grand of income so having them employed here is uh negative you know over time so you can make really easy decisions I mean uh if you if you want to be like that mercenary about it but when it comes to devs like how do you make that choice how do you how do you how do you know who what contributions have been made where which lead to profitability like how I I have no idea how they make performance reviews yeah but like I mean I don't know I I don't know man I I mean I don't know either um but um yeah I think that's it uh dang three bills says you should read the three body problem I do actually have that Series so it is something I will read at one point uh but I want to thank everyone for for tuning in to today's Xbox 2. um you guys are amazing as always best chat around best people uh watching the show and uh we appreciate you and love you so much uh patreon people just keep in mind I think on the 30th we'll be doing that uh Xbox two plus one with Jeff Grubb will you get Early Access for like you know a week I can't wait to talk to Jeff well we got a lot of things to talk about and uh don't forget this week's sponsor is hellofresh and you can go to hellofresh.com xbox22 and use code Xbox 2 222 for uh 22 free meals plus free shipping so links in the description for that um and we'll be back next week to talk about the Xbox direct and all the cool stuff that they show and until then um hope you guys have a great weekend and keep it go round round what round round before we get out of here okay Rand on YouTube a creator of note his videos both clever and droll with wit and humor he keeps us afloat entertaining all young and old hmm I mean it's better so I guess we're gonna end the show on a AI generated poem have a great weekend guys and we'll see you uh next week later

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