Xbox

They're more interested in the Kojima drama because we almost got a metal gear follow up on PlayStation.

Now it's going over to Xbox.

Okay, wait, immediately, if you're going to own the Chuds in quotes, when you're right away or people are saying, well, they actually have a love thing or relationship going on, they're just pushing their distance and hurting each other, but they really want to get together, that's automatically going to disalienate a whole bunch of your audience.

Oh, yeah.

German metal and

Which, you know, I think that would probably be something that you would expect from people who've probably never lifted anything heavier than an Xbox controller.

But for my money, I think there are very, very few, if any, death metal bands that can claim to have had the streak of consistently excellent albums that werewolves have released, let alone releasing those albums over the course of seven years.

I mean, you go through it top to bottom.

Um, and we will reveal the answer.

Um, let's, I wanna talk about this because, uh, this was posted in the Discord recently by, uh, Levo who says, um, "It's quite relevant to the cost of gaming discussion." And this is the story, that, uh, Xbox is introducing strict limits on how long players will be able to stream games through Game Pass.

The changes come into effect from November.

And would you believe it, Inel, the more you pay, the more time you get.

Oh, ah, do you know what, Dave? I don't know why Xbox are doing this, 'cause at the moment, PR-wise, it's slightly starting to swing their way compared to all the things that PlayStation are doing.

And what they're kinda doing here is they're penalizing the few people that stream it, stream their Game Pass games.

'Cause, like, I've used it a couple of times on my TV.

Mm.

Or what is Sony?

PlayStation, Xbox.

Yeah, who was that? Okay,

I'm going to go with Herstory for 100.

each and every week.

And I know my co-host on the Friday show and I, we just lamented for an hour yesterday for PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo.

Nintendo with its customer appreciation sale.

Yeah.

And then of course, Xbox, you know, trying to do good with its digital, but then they have their issues with, you know, what do I want to say? Oh yeah.

Their, their cap limits on their, their game pass.

as far as cloud gaming.

They're more interested in the Kojima drama because we almost got a metal gear follow-up on PlayStation.

Now it's going over to Xbox.

Okay, wait, immediately, if you're going to own the Chuds in quotes, when you're right away or people are saying, well, they actually have a love thing or relationship going on, they're just pushing their distance and hurting each other, but they really want to get together, that's automatically going to disalienate a whole bunch of your audience.

Because it's unnecessary and it's stupid.

And then, of course, eventually, there was Death Stranding 2.

Uh, and in recent days, I know he's doing a project with Xbox called OD.

We don't really know much about it.

It's horror-based.

And just to be clear, Sony's not the only one obviously having fumbles.

Microsoft has been having quite a few as well, but Sony's really been [sighs] just having some troubles, especially in the more recent months.

Anyway, uh, s- very shortly after this had been posted, Asha Sharma of, obviously, the CEO of Xbox, had posted something as well.

And this is interesting 'cause this was minutes after the PlayStation one went up, and she had said, quote, "Physint and OD.

Today is September the 13th, 2026.

Uh, I am Chris Matthew, your once and future co-host, gamertag OC_CPMatthew on Xbox Live.

They still call me Moose on Steam.

I think I have a PSN handle.

Yeah.

I'm here, uh, at GamerGirl27.

That's Xbox, that's Steam, and like Chris, I have one on PSN, but at the moment I don't know what it is, and I can't tell you the last time I turned it on, so it doesn't really matter, so.

And in the end, it doesn't even matter.

Moving on to Fred Gretchen.

I've never had a gaming PC, but I've done PS5, Xbox Series X, and the Switch 2.

And I like the Switch best, but mostly because I love Nintendo games and you can't get them on any other console.

Yeah, exclusives are definitely one of the biggest factors that still exist in the console wars, which is otherwise a very dying medium because they're basically all just making PCs.

modding also.

You can't mod well on a Switch.

Switches are even less conducive for modding than the other two consoles in the console wars, which is to say something because the Xbox and PS5 are also not ideal for modding.

Yeah, Baldur's Gate is definitely a game where mods matter to a lot of people.