Xbox vs PlayStation | Xbox Activision Blizzard Deal Drama | PlayStation Hypocrisy - XB2 243

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The Xbox Two Podcast is back and this week Rand & Jez will be talking about the ongoing battle between Xbox and PlayStation regarding the Xbox Activision Blizzard Deal and how PlayStation looks like incredible hypocrites, FTC is likely to try and sue to block the Activision Deal and a whole lot more!!
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:06:24 - START after going LIVE; Houskeeping
00:21:24 - Superchats, Scalebound?! Xbox at The Game Awards, expectations. Hellblade 2 Motion Capture?
00:41:24 - Superchat, Nintendo Direct format vs. Xbox's formula. Jez made Obsidian angry.
1:00:24 - Callisto Protocol. Evil West. Vampire Survivors (quickly). Star Wars: Andor. God of War Ragnarok sales.
1:30:24 - Superchats: Rand is grumpy. Elder Scrolls Online dev's new IP.
1:47:24 - Hyperkin X360 controller, Xbox wireless controllers, Xbox SSD cards suck.
1:59:24 - Xbox vs. PlayStation, next-gen consoles, and CMA FTC battles.
03:00:24 - Superchats and Q&A.
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[@RandalThor19]

Thanks for support everyone. This week's show was sponsored by MANSCAPED, which has given Xbox Two listeners 20% off @ Manscaped.com with the checkout code XB2 Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:06:24 - START after going LIVE; Houskeeping 00:21:24 - Superchats, Scalebound?! Xbox at The Game Awards, expectations. Hellblade 2 Motion Capture? 00:41:24 - Superchat, Nintendo Direct format vs. Xbox's formula. Jez made Obsidian angry. 1:00:24 - Callisto Protocol. Evil West. Vampire Survivors (quickly). Star Wars: Andor. God of War Ragnarok sales. 1:30:24 - Superchats: Rand is grumpy. Elder Scrolls Online dev's new IP. 1:47:24 - Hyperkin X360 controller, Xbox wireless controllers, Xbox SSD cards suck. 1:59:24 - Xbox vs. PlayStation, next-gen consoles, and CMA FTC battles. 03:00:24 - Superchats and Q&A.

[@Amar-xp7nv]

Thank you for the timestamps 💚🥃

[@Gogo32monkey]

3:19:53 "Every time he opens his mouth, he says something" - yes Rand, that's how talking works

[@LevelSmackcom]

Gordon Ramsey could be Jim Ryan in a movie lol

[@blindfirestar2601]

Rand as someone who’s got all the achievements In vampire survivors use the red cloak and the endless echos and you will merk death everytime if your have trouble getting them there’s a aracana card that pulls everything to u it makes it easy to get them

[@evanhuff682]

Bringing all the loot to you also allows you to farm 4 gold eggs per session. Boom wasnt aware, but Pentagram plus the exp crown evolve to the best power in game IMO. It attracts the exp globes to you after nuking everything on screen. Combine that with the shroud and rings, axe evolved, either cards or garlic for damage shield and you are primed to make the 31 minute mark. You are limited to 6 weapons until the power ring randomly becomes available. There also comes a point where you are allowed to pick a power...even if you already have 6(7 with ring). That isnt the same for add ons. When you are on a level, there is no need to choose power ups that you can get for free. So fill up what you want/need, then nab the free ones. Example...I know the power up for axe is available in dairy plant. So I dont worry about it being one of the 6 I choose. After I have my 6, then I get it. This holds especially true for Shroud n the other one. Those are 2 slots each.

[@jubei20111]

Crimson Shroud and the clock lancet make it really easy. I was able to kill him without either and only using Santa Water because it hit death so much he couldn't move. He came out, I got a freeze item, got some space between us and it was game over for him. I was at level 1200 so it was over leveled like crazy and I had the game running at 1 frame every 2 seconds on the XSX at one point, even with numbers and effects turned off.

[@blindfirestar2601]

@@destro3938 cant wait for those Bethesda bangers to start hitten

[@xburk550]

Listen to Rand. If you're on the fence about purchasing a TV, get the LG C1 or CX. It's an absolute game changer for playing games.

[@Fratemojo5]

Got a 65 inch on Amazon for $1100

[@jgg6932]

My lg g1 died on me one year after I got it 😭 make sure you get a protection plan like I did. Now I switched to the Samsung OLED it's sweet

[@jgg6932]

@Jason C that's how you do it!

[@bionicwolf3342]

I took advantage of the sales and got a 77 inch LG B2. I replaced a mini LED and I can’t believe how awesome the picture is.

[@vullord666]

I think what makes the deal so frustrating, well one of the things, right now is Sony and Microsoft are spitting on art please regulators. Both are downplaying their own studios and games. Sony is straight up dissing every third party publisher and dev (I really want to see how this affects Sony’s relationship with 3rd party publishers in the future) and really every game that’s not COD. It’s offensive to the industry as a whole and the subjective nature of art. Sony’s argument as a whole is kinda hilarious when you think about it. COD is currently only available on Xbox, PC, and PS with it coming to mobile. If Microsoft took cod off of PS, gamers would still have 2/3 of the current available choices with Microsoft also brining it to Cloud, wanting to put it on Nintendo, and wanting it to be on mobile (and that’s IF they take it off PS). I literally just want the deal to go through so I can get more Spyro games. Or even just the Legend of Spyro trilogy remastered/remake (that’s my childhood). Or even just The Legend of Spyro Dawn of the Dragon available through backwards compatibility with FPS boosts. COD can be burnt to the ground for all I care.

[@jubei20111]

Got all the achievements on Vampire Slayers and its some of the most fun I've had in a game in a very long time. One run I killed 600k enemies, got 1.2m gold, and got to level 1200. Game had we hooked for close to 2 weeks.

[@makkam454]

Paul Rudd plays Phil Spencer. Will Ferrell plays Jim Ryan

[@thedoncjg6263]

Rand’s right, the LG C1 is a phenomenal TV. One of the best TV’s out there, especially when combined with the Series X

[@NuclearAbyss]

Ya, i bought a LG C2 55" this black Friday, and its a huge game changer. Games like Elden ring run at 110-120 fps, so you can't even notice the basic frame dips.

[@NuclearAbyss]

@@SilverJoystix natively yes, not with AMD Free sync.

[@shepergames3734]

@Alex Re I believe you are mistaken friend. The engine caps the game at 60. You can have your refresh rate higher but it won't actually run at higher than 60 frames. Freesync will only show the frames when they are ready so if you drop to 55 fps your monitor will only refresh those 55 times in a second as opposed to vsync where 55 fps in game means 60 times refreshing with 5 duplicate frames included which feels worse. I hope that simplistic explanation helps. That is why free sync feels better though. Because it is.

[@BartholomeHoeger]

This is super fun to watch!

[@jetiii7]

I like the Duke. I don’t know how u can say it’s awful if you like the regular controller. Not trying to argue but Duke just feels fuller in my hands and the regular Xbox controller is a just a smaller version. I like XBox controllers and sega controller. I only used ps3 controller and I hated it

[@maplestreetpictures7454]

I highly recommend the Hisense U7H

[@Anthony-wp6yu]

What’s the game that’s being played at the beginning? Looks fun

[@GordyManPR]

All jim and sony are really saying is we can't compete with MS and gamepass if they're allow to invest at such scale because we can't do the same. When he said choices,he refers to the death of Playstation. Which is ridiculous and overly exxagerated but it goes to show how afraid they're of gamepass and consumer friendly focus business models going forward.

[@MightyMork]

Great show lads. Would you ever think of joining your channels together and creating the The Xbox Two Gaming channel? Could be a good way of getting more and varied content out. Both of you then working together to expand the subs and reach.

[@VastGameMaster]

Everytime Rand goes on a short rant about how much he dosen't care about certain things. I'm like "Then stop talking about it" because I'm a strong believer of actions speak louder then words. So in general, I feel like when ever someone talks about how jaded they are or talks about how they don't care, it feels like they trying to convince themselves.

[@Carter_Weiss]

Jim Ryan played by Steven Seagal

[@nafisishtiaque]

Can the deal go though already I want to play the mw1, cold war and mw2 campaign. As a Sony fan I think it would be good for everyone. Sony is getting too cocky anyway

[@valdal7679]

Got to say Rand is right when he says pokemon piss and poo, I've never seen a game come out of Nintendo that unpolished, my oh my how times are changing

[@user-eo4xl4kw1o]

i want to talk with Rand

[@liamharrington6672]

2:50:45 I personally gave Sony a second chance, even after the PS3 era and the way Sony treated their competitors, their customers and their developers on top of their enabling and handling of the gratuitous hack of customer data which should have been encrypted but wasn't due to total negligence. I forgave them for all that. But because of the way Sony has behaved since the PS4 era, and their total disregard for consumers, competition, and developers through practices like cross play tax, blocking games from appearing on game pass, paying developers to neuter their games so the PS5 versions don't look worse, raising the price of games and consoles, and now the continued hypocrisy of their attempted stopping of Xbox-Activision deal - because of all that I will not forgive Sony, and will personally boycott any Sony product and advocate against them until every current executive in Sony has retired, and their business has comprehensively restructured itself to be consumer, developer and competition friendly. I strongly believe Sony's corporate beliefs are antithetical to that kind of restructuring.

[@holddamayo7474]

I was curious as to why y’all don’t have video on your podcast, so I googled both of you and whelp I can see why it’s audio only. Yikes

[@danielmcdonald1023]

They look like their avatars in the corner of the video - But whatever……😂 The real question is What do YOU look like??? 😂😂😂

[@otogigamer]

Sony wishes they could be like Nintendo

[@fabriziodanilo9018]

Great discussion, I'd also add that one of Activision exectuvies officially tweeted about the issue, they're not happy with what Sony is pulling, so chances are if the deal doesn't go through, Sony will have to face Activision's middle finger, big time, and that's bad news for Sony.

[@user-eo4xl4kw1o]

Talk with me!

[@loganhardy9586]

Well instead of spreading fud you should have done your homework, Sony only give sales numbers when a title has broken a record for them like since forbidden west is a sequel it's record should've been beating the last of us 2's ( 4 million in 3 days) for Sony to have given a sales update on it. But that doesn't mean horizon didn't sell enough, it sold millions of copies based on the charts we have.

[@barcster2003]

I think Xbox needs more than a game a quarter. If that's the goal its still going to fall short unless all of those are major major games. For example Nintendo had Xenoblade 3 Bayonetta 3 Splatoon 3 Pokemon scarlet and Violet Mario + rabbids Live a live Triangle strategy Kirby and the forgotten land Monster hunter rise sunbreak Mario strikers battle league and updates Mario kart 8 booster course pass Pokemon arceus Fire emblem three hopes Delayed Zelda tears of the kingdom Advance wars 1 + 2 reboot camp January Fire Emblem So that's 16 things which Is more than one a month.

[@isaiahjackson1211]

You realize that a Nintendo game is infinitely easier to make than a Xbox game

[@scottp.548]

We'll (U.S.) take Jez & jolly ole England can take James back (and possibly J. Oliver), since it was a draw.

[@gremlinjace]

"It's not gonna stop me from buying." That makes you part of the problem. You are just hypocrites if you are gonna complain about something and then not do anything about it. You are just as bad as the greedy companies by supporting them.

[@Mightyguybrush2]

Gaming discord is pretty much.. "I can't wait for [insert game title] come out" then "when is the next game coming out" then "I don't like this new game, Xbox never brings anything out"

[@barcster2003]

Microsoft is going to fall prey to this again. This is the problem with not having enough releases.

[@Mightyguybrush2]

@@barcster2003 it's not a Microsoft problem it's a gamer problem.

[@dikkie1120]

Jim the awesome amazing Ryan

[@chargasm712]

Rand and Jez what is coing on with sony and Microsoft azure deal

[@eugeniabergeron8987]

Why is your co-host always late LOL.

[@Mr_Sup3rnova]

You haven't read my superchat rand 🤔 even jez has mentioned that

[@aawells07]

Love you guys but damn did I wanna tell ole Rand to shut the F up during the ad reading of manscape lol. Rand just kept blabing lol. Great show guys

[@user-eo4xl4kw1o]

plaease

[@dageekynerd2898]

Didn't Sony help with some of the work on Callisto like Mocap & cinematics?

[@sayfaofy9705]

Sony will kill mirosoft gen

[@spectrexr1]

It took devs 2 years to even make the games run better than the weaker PS5. If it's a refresh that's another SKU they have to dev for. And they games are busted now evil west 1080 on the series x at 60. How can they use the full potential of the series x if they already gonna make refresh.

[@user-eo4xl4kw1o]

other wise we're going to close your channel!

[@johnblue341]

Man Rand your Star Wars tastes are awful lol. Prequels were awesome some best SW I've seen & Andor I feel doesn't really scratch that Star Wars itch its kinda boring show outside of prison & heist episodes and ended kinda mid

[@xvhkgreen6297]

dont recommend me this channel.

[@CapitalDream]

Why the kick off of this show is so negative. From the ranting to the complaining about who did what to you and then tipping the hat to jim if he pulls off ending this deal

[@Gregor_Von_DOOM]

Y'all do realize you continue to counter your own arguments each time. The point of the anti competitiveness is that Microsoft can afford to put their games in day and date. You literally started with saying Sony couldn't afford the call of duty price to do that. Had Xbox had to only rely on Xbox, they would've been shut down or sold. Jez brings up the PS3 price which actually proves that point. The PS3 had the best Blu-ray player built in on the market at the time sold hundreds of dollars cheaper and it almost killed them.

[@Gregor_Von_DOOM]

@@gunnernathan7023 you already lost the argument with "PlayStation does it a lot more than Xbox" no. Xbox set that standard in the 360 era, if PlayStation is the market leader and Xbox would have to pay more to get those same deals that is competitive. Microsoft chooses not to or to spend money on other things that turn out but as big or quality. And the games still release eventually on Xbox.

[@kevinlist3330]

Ponies are at it again 🤦

[@Gregor_Von_DOOM]

@@kevinlist3330 ah yes because pointing out the dumb bias argument against what is going on makes me a point. Thanks for your input. I could give to flying Fs about call of duty. I guess that makes you a bot right?

[@kevinlist3330]

@@Gregor_Von_DOOM no I think all the plastic box wars is pathetic it just funny seeing you defending Sony's side for them hope they are paying you for your servitude.

[@Gregor_Von_DOOM]

@@kevinlist3330 hilarious to claim not to be a bot when I didn't defend Sony at all. I pointed out they make claims about why they believe Sony's side is wrong and hypocritical but immediately counter their own argument by their following statements. I didn't pick a side at all. You however did by coming in calling people ponies. So enjoy your day bot.