Xbox

PlayStation sticks foot in mouth, then shoots foot.

Xbox takes advantage of this opening by choosing death.

Lists all movie, TV rights to its games on Craigslist.

Will Markiplier be going pro in prison, or is this his come amateur debut? Maybe it's time for the perfect-est crime after all.

[laughs]

So moving on from there, uh, plenty of points assigned.

Uh, Xbox similarly looks at PlayStation doing what they do and says, "Ha In addition to all the other stuff they've been doing, good or bad, they've decided to sell all of their games, movie, and TV rights as a package.

Whether or not this has been sold or not is still up for debate.

Them versus gamers, as more and more anti-consumer practices cause a rift between what gamers want and what companies want from us.

Xbox has had its turn in the unfortunate spotlight, but now it's Sony's turn.

With practices like going all digital to forcing PlayStation network accounts for PC players, ending the sharing of exclusives, and more, it's time for the Sony smackdown you've all been waiting for.

Before we get to the cage match, some introductions are in order.

Well, welcome in, everybody.

You know, we are equal opportunity gamers around here.

We're not gonna give it to Nintendo, and we're not gonna give it to Xbox, and then be like, "Sony, you get a pass.

Don't worry.

It should be a good thing to do.

You have to drop all your material about playing Xbox and going to parties and stuff.

Yeah.

[clears throat] Well, I-

Not in my eyes.

No way.

It's an Xbox.

It is.

Yeah.

You know? Like, n- no one might have an Xbox, but everybody be playing our games.

[laughs]

Right.

I don't know, though.

But yeah, I don't...

I, I would guess people don't, if I had to f- answer your question, but I, I would strongly think that Xbox or Microsoft doesn't care.

Yeah.

got what they wanted out of the news i

mean we kind of mentioned this briefly up top and we don't have to fully get into it because i don't really know the specifics of it but it seems like kojima came out and made a full statement as to why yeah he broke off with sony and is teaming up with xbox

Yeah, so I guess, tell me if you guys have a different understanding of the timeline here, but as far as I was tracking, Kojima came out and announced that Sony had basically dropped them, putting them in a very... like a horrible position to find another partner publishing partner I guess and they did find Xbox and Sony then came out and their retort was like hey just so everybody knows like we love Kojima and we think he's super talented and we can't and we have a long history with him and can't wait to work with him again and Then Kojima came out and was like they dropped us without warning They like the clarified the situation more that didn't make somebody look good And then Sony

came out with like

just okay well actually it was like they were they had missed a deadline on something and Death Stranding 1 & 2 didn't make their money back and They're already over budget for this

I think so.

Well, I think...

Is it, though? Because it's coming out on Xbox.

I'm not getting feedback.

I do have my Xbox gaming headset that I expertly used on Friday, which apparently allows my voice to come through clearly, even though I cannot hear myself.

So basically choosing between two disasters tonight until I can fix my mic situation, which will probably have to wait until after Vegas.

looking forward to seeing a bunch of you guys over there so just keep me posted in the chat if um all of a sudden my mic cuts out because this one seems to be on its last legs otherwise i think we're good we're going to do a solo show tonight i've got no guest i'm experimenting with this new format i did episode 80 by myself episode 81 zach payne joined me last week that was a fun one i got a lot of really great feedback from you guys from episode 80. earlier this year i had done my first solo episode of the narrative uh i forget which episode number that was but it was the sovereign disentanglement episode and that episode as i said was like a presentation i had i had been writing about sovereign disentanglement since january it sort of was a template that mapped on to most of what i feel has been going on on a geopolitical stage um on the geopolitical stage from the perspective of maga and trump's movement and trump's strategy So I decided to do a whole show talking about what exactly I meant by sovereign disentanglement, laying that out in detail.

crash through some castles with the car.

So originally released on the Xbox Live Arcade on August 27th of 2008, we're actually two days away from that anniversary as far as this recording goes.

Don't remind me.

All right.

So Dakota, I'm going to kick it over to you.

What is your personal history with Castle Crashers?

So this might surprise the fair few of you that being the Xbox guy that I am, I didn't have any experience with Castle Crashers before I was playing it for the podcast, which is probably surprising to some of you that have heard me talk on this show before because I'm such a big Xbox guy.

But what a time this game was, man.

... new game in the series.

Um, for the first time since, obviously, the Xbox version, which is very weird to say.

Crazy Taxi 3 came out on the Xbox.

Ooh.

Oh my God.

It w-

Um-

... um, the origin- the PS5 and Xbox version came out in May, I believe it was, and yeah, they just couldn't get it out on time.

The Mermaid Mask, SFB Games, we should say they also make Crow Country as well, if you recognize the name of that developer and publisher.

And that is for PC, it's for PlayStation 5, it's for Switch, it's for Xbox.

So it's out on lots of different platforms.

And I also want to check that out at some point as well.