Wait, Phil said that? This MF

Its true though.

As popular as SoT and Grounded are, they didn't overshadow something like No Mans Sky, or in the case of The Finals, it didn't overshadow the launch of Helldivers 2 a few months later. If Concord gets overshadowed by Sea of Thieves, it never stood a chance, and its fortunes wouldn't change even if Microsoft didn't end up porting the game.

I really wouldnt mind if Sarah takes over. She has a lot of charisma.

There were actually some recent leaks that suggest RDNA 4 will catch up Ampere in RT performance, so my hope is that RDNA 5 will catch up all the way to Ada Lovelace on RT performance. If that is the case, a 7900 XT tier mid range RDNA 5 part in the next gen Xbox could have at least 4070 ti tier RT performance, maybe even 4070 ti Super tier.

I think next gen should be pretty good if we get something like 1440p FSR quality moded up to a higher resolution, higher end ray tracing options (Series X/PS5 get medium RT settings at best, so RT high or path tracing would be a big leap there), and FSR Frame Generation to nearly double framerates, allowing them to pull off RT and decent graphics settings from the PC version at 60 fps, instead of 30 fps RT modes like this gen.

Phil went over pretty much what I expected.

- Confirmed a few titles.
- Shot down some of the faulty rumors that were getting mixed in with the credible ones. (Starfield, Indiana Jones etc)
- Didn't rule out more coming later, but also that there are no concrete plans for those yet.

The only thing I sort of didn't expect was that none of the confirmed titles were named.
But I didn't really think about it either. It makes sense to stick to the original plan for those reveals. Whether that's a Summer Games Fest trailer, or a Nintendo Direct. And not be forced to abandon those plans because of online leaks.

Nate was also the guy that for years was very adamant that multiple Silent Hill games were in development, mainly for Playstation, and naming Bloober Team as one of the developers. People were clowning him for it after every State of Play/PS Showcase, until they did show up.

Nvm. It came across more like a criticism of the games quality more than anything but I'll back off if that wasn't what it was, Lol.

I do think though, at some point, there's going to be so many GAAS titles that it simply won't be down to competition anymore, it won't matter if one game competes directly with another game, all that matters is how much time people have and because they're so invested in one game, they won't have time to invest it in another, I think that is a real danger to Sony if they don't get their GAAS titles out quick enough. Matt (NPD) has spoken about this too, how GAAS titles are starting to struggle because nobody has time to play them, cause everyone is already playing Minecraft, CoD, Fortnite, Roblox, GTA.

Happy Late Birthday @ice

Xbox is still alive. Enjoy Chilis.

My argument is that you believe these games need to stay on the Xbox and PC because of some preceived amount of exclusives to the customer.  Do you believe that gamers are buying a Xbox because of Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, Grounded or even Hi Fi Rush.  If they are Nintendo gamers or PS gamers why would they even know the quality of those games until they try them.  I am sure all of these games will be discounted on those platforms and if all get a sequel, it will make those gamers who experienced the games that more willing to pick the sequel up no matter the platform its on.

Consoles have always been defined by their AAA big hitting games not their smaller games or even their service games.  So no I do not believe keeping these games on just Xbox and PC does anything.  Hell it might not even move not one Nintendo or PS customer to MS platform but then again it doesn't have to.  What they need to do is sell which then justify bigger budgets for the sequel and the success of those games.  If all you see is the console war and not realize how huge gaming is in general is, you will always think of the market in outdated terms.  The cost of development as we all have been saying is rising and budgets need to be justified if you are going to invest a certain amount of money into it.  

I thought you left Xbox? 🥸

Same, seeing a lot of people saying she came across better than Phil in this podcast, Lol.

I honestly half expected this would be where Phil announces he's stepping down and handing over to Sarah.

I'm good with Phil for now but a Sarah leadership would be interesting.