Fitting that Ep#420 got pretty lit and heated with that slate of topics.

I just hope it *remains* true.
I was so in love with Hi Fi & seeing Tango go away broke my heart. I hope over the coming quarters where layoff rumours swirl, that the smaller teams are cushioned.
Cautious but hopeful that there won’t be any more victims of corporate overreach in pursuit of profit.

Fantastic coverage Cog, you and the ILP team have been killing it in terms of content the past few weeks

If nothing else squeezes in before launch? 357

Idk, the ambiguity, jumping around scenes with no context, and snails pace monotonous voice acting ended up driving me completely mad.
I got what the game was striving for, but I really was pleading for it to be over after just a couple hours. Gutted as a big fan of other PixelJunk titles

Ok, this one wins hahaha.

Or, maybe - the sweeping layoffs at Xbox are larger than in other gaming companies, far more unpredictable, & are being orchestrated by a parent company (Microsoft) that doesnt care about gaming & uses it as disposable collateral to fund other ventures. At least other parents are creatively centred

Yeah, certainly an overblown argument in essentially every facet.
Always been far more apt to keep the commentary scoped solely to Xbox, considering the corner it trapped itself in and the self-destructive slow motion spiral it’s seen over the past 14 months.

*Manifesting and working to one day get onto the podcast alongside fellow UK IGN comrades*

It’s certainly an unprecedented situation across the industry.
Guess I’m fighting tooth and nail to reject the idea of the console market collapsing, either under its own weight or just via changing player habits

That’s fair. Guess my rose-tinted glasses longing for the past are too stubborn.
I just wonder what their communication/sales pitch will be as an ecosystem going forward when they’re pricing their own hardware so harshly

Xbox seem to be doing everything in their power to piledrive their chances of regaining any ground w/ GTA next year.

Obvs they aren’t the sole perpetrators of price increases, but with two in 4-5 months and no pricing for the ROG Ally, hardware prospects seem bleaker than ever