Thanks for all the support!! Timestamps: Getting ready to go live 0:00 Intro and Housekeeping 8:14 Cod to Gamepass day one 24:26 Take-two wants to sell private division 43:50 Sony pc day 1 strategy 49:30 Toys for bob partner with xbox (appealing to young audiences) 1:03:25 Next acquisition speculation 1:10:50 Xbox publishing 100 star first game 1:12:18 Wutang announcement? 1:25:30 Small halo news 1:29:00 Redfall last update 1:36:00 May '24 State of play 1:36:35 Resident evil speculation 2:00:00 Xbox showcase predictions 2:12:23 Minecraft on netflix 3:18:10 Patreon Questions and Closing 3:19:33

Timestamps Getting ready to go live 0:00 Intro and Housekeeping 8:14 Cod to Gamepass day one 24:26 Take-two wants to sell private division 43:50 Sony pc day 1 strategy 49:30 Toys for bob partner with xbox (appealing to young audiences) 1:03:25 Next acquisition speculation 1:10:50 Xbox publishing 100 star first game 1:12:18 Wutang announcement? 1:25:30 Small halo news 1:29:00 Redfall last update 1:36:00 May '24 State of play 1:36:35 Resident evil speculation 2:00:00 Xbox showcase predictions 2:12:23 Minecraft on netflix 3:18:10 Patreon Questions and Closing 3:19:33

@Choteron3

2 ай бұрын

mvp

Here for the show! 4 hours?! That's beefy! Keep me entertained for half a work shift thanks guys! It's been so hard finding a podcast I can listen to ever since I stopped listening to Gameinformer a few years ago.

Rand always calls out Jez’s audio but Jez’s audio always sounds fine to me lol

My X-Box Showcase Predictions: Opener: Gears 6 followed by Gears Collection (if there really is one), Xbox Game Studio Block: Perfekt Dark, maybe new Everwild Trailer, Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 3, First Forza Horizon 6 Trailer (Release Spring 2026), Avowed. Bethesda: Fallout 76, Trailer New Online Game, Shattered Space, Indiana Jones, Eso, Doom. Global Publishing: Pal World, Towerborne, 33 Immortals, Ara History, Contraband and the Show Closer Banjo-Kazooie (Play Tonic). Third Party very Japanese heavy.....something Final Fantasy related, Sega/Atlus. Acti-Bliz: Announcments Game Pass Games this year. Cheers 😉

@hihosilver1234

2 ай бұрын

Give me all that and it'll be another amazing Xbox showcase. I've loved the Xbox showcase the last years in a row tho.

58:18 the problem with the tier thing on Netflix is I was only tangentially aware of the multiple tiers. People will sign up and stay with that initial tier. 😊

Also in that video that Bethesda showed the moon rover they said the hard work of adding "vehicles" I'm thinking they may also be customizable like ships/dwellings

@hihosilver1234

2 ай бұрын

I have low expectations that the land vehicles will play well or be added anytime soon

@codewick8985

2 ай бұрын

@@hihosilver1234 All they needed was a hoverboard, it might have been a lot easier to create than land vehicle ?

2:55:32 Rand does not understand how much Sea of Thieves is popping off 😂 everyone loves what they added in the last update, and people are REALLY hyped for the next update. Sea of Thieves has a reason to be at the showcase; they always do.

@LordBeef

2 ай бұрын

That aside, I think Rand‘s predictions are pretty solid.

I would buy banjo! Digital, physical, collectors edition too. I grew up w banjo tooie on 64 and shortly after a school friend traded me banjo kazooie I was amazed it was the first game cuz I thought tooie was the only game.. I was a kid lol but I have incredible nostalgia for these games & they deserve a remaster like crash/spyro! If xbox rly wants family friendly games they should remaster those 2 & keep it going make banjo 4, 5, 6 etc. What a perfect xbox mascot for children worldwide a goofy bear & peckish bird and you have that legacy behind it. My legacy, I am a banjo bro! The roots run deep 🐻 🐦

Will there be an extended show this year?

Did they discuss Zenimax at all? Can't spare time this week to listen but wondering if they have any insight.

It’s funny that you make fun of Xbox haters that keep moving the goalposts when you,supposed xbox content creators constantly try to find where microsoft will f.. us. i guess youbeither love drama or you just know Xbox drama sells. 😉😉😉

so awesome

bro every time i wake up these guys are randomly on my computor like wtf

If sony would have put CoD on Ps Plus there would be a celebration everywhere! CoD on GP is such a big thing, its massive!!!

If you do the show in Los Angeles, then it's going to be interesting to see if you can do it on one day. Good show for now.

Deadpool is already backwards compatible. It sucks though. There are no graphical or performance upgrades with it and it pauses for a sec every 30-45 seconds or so. I heard playing it offline fixes the issue but either way, it's probably best to just play it on a 360.

Halo needs to show up

256 jez has his most real statement probably of his life. Loved seeing jez let loose for once let the mask slip and rip rand in a hilarious way.

The 360 rpg game is Blue Dragon. There is a dynamic backgroud for it now. Why create it out of all the games to choose for a background?? 👀🔥

@alfredolangarica6824

2 ай бұрын

It was in honour of Akira Toriyama

Call of Duty Early Access is going to go hard. It'll make all other games look like chump change.

Killer Instict 2 trailer gonna drop in a week or so

Won't happen, but Blue would be nice to see come to backwards compatibility.

@80metamatic

2 ай бұрын

Blur

1:08:50 in the words of Ronnie James Dio "the mob rules"!😊

What's the point of saying metacritic doesn't determine if a game does well sales wise, but then immediately not even a second later say that metacritic influences people by word of mouth. That's literally saying the same thing by metacritic influencing people by word of mouth. That is it directly affecting a games sales.

@spectrexr1

2 ай бұрын

Exactly

@tji7046

2 ай бұрын

I think what they're trying to say is if your game scores high on metacritic it will do well sales wise ( generally ), but that isn't because people are looking at metacritic..it's because the game is good. Basically metacritic scores don't generally lie. It's spot on more or less in deciding if a game is good or not. Nobody went to check out Baulders Gate 3 metacritic to buy it or not, they likely heard it via word of mouth which coincides with the metacritic score.

@spectrexr1

2 ай бұрын

@@tji7046 but bg3 was mad buggy and wasnt good after like the 3rd chapter I heard. I think that game was pushed because of the Xbox series s stuff..cause that game was a stadia exclusive and no one talked about it then ..

@tji7046

2 ай бұрын

@@spectrexr1 It's sales primarily came from PCs so I wouldn't attribute it doing well to consoles. You're right about the 3rd act but for many people that wasn't enough to detract from the games overall quality.

@makeway1118

2 ай бұрын

Metacritic is just a collection of good/mid/bad reviews, but they don’t hire writers to give their own reviews on all of the games. So Jez is saying Metacritic might be a predictor, not an influencer. Publishers like seeing a lot of review data all in one place, and love it even more if the overall scores are good. Meanwhile all of their customers are not going to Metacritic to decide whether to buy a game. Instead he believes any word-of-mouth from reviews is more likely from specific reviews than from the aggregate score listed on Metacritic.Maybe that’s true. Anecdotally, I might check with a few of my trusted reviewers but I *DO NOT* go to Metacritic to see the average score the way publishers do.

I’m willing to pay up to 25 a month if the DLC is included All I wanna see is Forza Horizon 6 at the showcase

As a PC gamer i will not buy a PS 5 console to play their games on day 1. I will just wait. Plenty of amazing games to play meanwhile

@iftycent8

2 ай бұрын

Then stop begging for them to day and date 😂😂 pc gamers are full of shi

@Choteron3

2 ай бұрын

@@iftycent8 lol im not beggin. I think you are just mad that pc gamers can play "your" games.

Did the Microsoft games charting currently on NPD, chart at the time when they were only released on Xbox/PC? Because if not, that does say a lot about the buying habit of Xbox users and why microsoft is going multi platform

@JstBringIt

2 ай бұрын

Games always chart on steam, but it’s only the big AAA games that chart on Xbox like Halo, Starfield, Forza etc

@chosenreaper6224

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@JstBringItcorrect me if I am wrong but I believe Steam numbers are counted on NPD. If their lesser known games are charting this time around due to putting them multi platform when they never did initially. This further proves that Xbox users aren’t buying games and Microsoft has to be thinking what will happen when that put their big triple AAA games multi platform.

I don’t believe PlayStation is putting single player games on pc to drive support for the PlayStation only sequel. God of war and horizon won’t have sequels for quite a while, but the latest games are already on pc. Uncharted is a dormant franchise and the games are on pc. I think they want to make more money on game sales, and they aren’t expecting to lose PlayStation customers to the pc market. But in my opinion, it’s definitely going to have an impact on console growth.

The whole thing about people buying game pass playing hellblade, then canceling game pass and getting a full refund that doesn't get fixed with making the subscriber length longer. Because if you're allowed to cancel it at all then it would just cancel all 3 months and if it's still within a certain window you would still get a refund. Increasing the length and price of the initial subscription doesn't change the exploit. It would probably have to be a amount of time played situation. If you played 5 hours worth of play time on game pass games, then you can't get a full refund. Means if you played 2 hours in this game and then you switched to 2 hours in another game then played 1 hour in a different game that would still be 5 hours total played of game pass titles which would make you no longer eligible for a refund. And before anyone argue, the hours can be whatever we think is logical. The point still stands.

I like this podcast but you guys contradict yourselves way too much, gets slightly annoying but still looking forward to the next one.

Predictions from a guy that knows what to be on showcase but dont want to spoil anything... yea😂

WOW cannot be at the xbox showcase! Most viewers don't care about WoW. I bet it won't be on the show

Online multi-player is tethered to the Core tier of Gamepass. Hell, they created the tier just to keep online multi-player costs alive. I'm a bit shocked that you two wouldn't know this.

@wolfgod1011

2 ай бұрын

Right. But the point is for someone to play cod online through gamepass , they would need both core and console gamepass ( so basically ultimate)

Honestly a good rule is to avoid so cal in May and June very cold and gloomy. People don’t realize how cloudy it is here. All year it was like cold rainy but June and May are always like that.

How could they add a new expensive tier when GP is already stagnant? That's prob why no mention of family plan either it's just not growing the way they expected.

The catch for COD is, you only get single player on Game Pass console because that sub doesnt include online play. The entire game is defacto only on the Ultimate tier if played on an Xbox console.

@michaelsquires1177

2 ай бұрын

That's literally every game with multiplayer

I can't see them doing Starcraft Blizzard has come out on a few occasions and said it made no money.

You kidding me rand?? The alien game looks dope aaf for the psvr2

@jarde1989

2 ай бұрын

Wired VR is trash

@liamflan9553

2 ай бұрын

The frame rate and graphics were so bad during the stream of the show

@GoHardOrGoHome85

2 ай бұрын

Game is DOA nobody wants a psvr2 even the people who already have one😂

Rand my God that's so difficult to listen to Terrible audio from Jex You think he could afford a better mic than that

It was just shown at Sony's business strategy meeting that 75% of helldivers 2 sales came from PS5. That 60-35 split in favor of PC was never true.

Only Jez would think that Herman doesn’t believe his strategy he is telling his INVESTORS forTwitter optics. That’s the problem with you all is that you focus why too much on the cesspool that is Twitter/console wars

@dontworry7440

2 ай бұрын

But is Jez wrong? As he said, the vast majority of PC players won’t even use other free PC launchers besides Steam…and Sony thinks those same people will dish out $500 for a console? Sony clearly has no clue how the PC audience works.

@BlackTone91

2 ай бұрын

@@dontworry7440 So out of touch comment

@xFlee

2 ай бұрын

@@malekaiusIf those casuals have $500-$600 to spend, then they could easily upgrade their rig with that cash instead of getting a console.

@dontworry7440

2 ай бұрын

@Blacktone91 - Lolol yes totally out do touch. EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, and even Activision/Blizzard all tried having exclusives on their FREE digital platforms, but still came crawling back to Steam. Epic has tried having exclusives on their FREE digital platform, but are failing miserably. CDProject and Rockstar have tried having their own FREE digital platforms, but neither come anywhere close to Steam. But somehow, Sony is going to use the same tactic as those other companies that failed miserably to entice PC players to spend $500? Jez is right, there’s no chance the execs at Sony truly believe what they’re saying.

@BlackTone91

2 ай бұрын

@@dontworry7440 What does using a launcher other than Steam have to do with wanting to buy new hardware?

Heres the thing with these live services. How many third person shooters are there…. 1 fortnight. How many first person shooters are there… a million! Lol just use socom. Give us battlefield in third person.

1:41:36 jez is dense Jesus. How to even have a conversation with a person talking out of their ass like they know something but never even watched the trailer. wtf waste of time for everyone involved

Elsewhere is reviving Scalebound

@hihosilver1234

2 ай бұрын

Huh

Sorry, Jez, Concorde CGI is the new benchmark. Blizzard has to step up. ;) Don't get the Astrobot hype...

Persona sucks

@hihosilver1234

2 ай бұрын

I didn't like what I played of 5. It's also a super creepy game.

@Echo__plex

2 ай бұрын

Persona 5 is incredible

@hihosilver1234

2 ай бұрын

@@Echo__plex I need to actually sit down and play it. It's one of the main reasons I bought a PS4, I even own it on there but never got past the first hour lol.

@Echo__plex

2 ай бұрын

​@hihosilver1234 yeah it's a massive time sink so I get that it's got a big barrier of entry. But I promise it's worth it. I had never played any Persona game previously, but I absolutely loved P5. And I've heard P5 Royal is even better. Just a big commitment.

1:07:00 lmao I completely agree that Minecraft is the worst supported game of all time, when compared to its success. It's like Pokemon, it doesn't need to change bcs people eat it up as is. Such wasted potential.

Chasing younger audiences...the entire e- industry has been chasing Millennials and Gen Z for the last 19 years, and pretty much ruined most franchises and fandoms in the process to do so. The last thing the gaming industry has done is focusing on their core. o.g customers, (36 y old males and older) who still outplay and out spent every demographic. While the younger generations just like the o.g. gamers have retreated into older games that are free of identity politics and all that other activist ESG/DEI bs; they thought the younger generations were interested in. As long as the industry still bows down to activist and ESG/DEI and and lets their games made by activist dev teams and dito consultancy; Im not holding my breath we are actually getting good games. And than Im not even talking about the fact games today are more about various ways of monetization than being actual good video games. Luckily we are close to another crash, and it cant come soon enough and hopefully dwarves the 1983 one.

If it's only 76 they reveal. F Bethesda. I need a fallout 3 remake. Not 76

@hihosilver1234

2 ай бұрын

Exactly, idc about 76 at all, and I'm a Die Hard Fallout fan. Hopefully a 3 remaster/ remake, and even a 1 or 2 remake. The FO4 next gen update was a let down tho so I have zero faith in BGS anymore...

you would need a EXPENSIVE playstation TIER too if cod game to PS+ you would need EXTRA or premium ANYWAY to get online AND THE GAME for console TIERs. PS base is 10gms + online PS paying SUBSCRIPTION ANDD 75$ or 100$... WOW. This is AWESOME JUST WITH GAMEPASS lowest tier I get NEW black ops 6 COD single-player JUST WITH gamepass MULTIPLAYER tier.. I get COD FREE and multiplayer THIS IS A HUGE WIN.. we STILL get 100+ game pass games added to our library 2024,Palworld+100gms+.... 10+ HUGE EXCLUSIVES? O.o. AND+ COD BLACK OPS 6 all 2024 game PASS .. WHAT!!?

I’ll be an old man by the time Rand keeps his promise of being on camera 🤦