Easy Allies Podcast #233 - September 25, 2020
Added 2020-09-25 18:24:26 +0000 UTCVideo Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uPsoU8Z_0E
Xbox was busy buying up Bethesda this week while its community was trying to buy up the remainder of Series X|S pre-orders. Amazon also made a big move by announcing their own streaming platform, Rayman-creator Michel Ancel leaves game development entirely, and at the drop of a shadow Kirby is fighting himself again on the Switch.
00:01:24 - Corrections
00:03:58 - Silver Lining
00:05:41 - Microsoft buys ZeniMax Media
00:27:14 - Xbox Series X|S Preorders
00:52:22 - Amazon's Luna Announced
01:05:03 - Michel Ancel quits Game Dev
01:12:03 - Kirby Fighters 2 Shadow Drop
01:16:54 - Also This Week...
01:25:11 - L&R - Game: Skyrim's the Limit!
01:29:02 - L&R - A Gaming Quantum Leap
01:30:20 - L&R - Microsoft's Smash Bros?
01:31:45 - L&R - Konami/PlayStation partnership?
01:35:07 - Time for Bets
01:41:02 - Closing
01:42:53 - Producer Credits
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Comments
Correction on Luna: Amazon worked with the Safari Team to get Luna in Apples Web Browser. https://www.engadget.com/luna-amazon-cloud-gaming-interview-pwa-apple-173948922.html
Patrick
2020-09-28 15:20:45 +0000 UTCCool! Would love to see a No-Clip-style vid or article on how they all got together.
Cloisterance
2020-09-28 14:41:14 +0000 UTCNot quite a correction: Almost all of Dreamhaven's staff are former Blizzard Employees, not all of them. One employee, for example, is a former employee of Wizards of the Coast (Kate Welch from the D&D branch of the company). Again, not a correction, just thought it was a fun fact.
R.F. Switch
2020-09-27 19:36:19 +0000 UTCTo be fair, I think one of the biggest sells Microsoft had in Japan wasn't Vesperia or Blue Dragon, but Monster Hunter. Specifically the Asian-only 'Monster Hunter Frontiers' MMO that was PC exclusive from its release in 2007 up to 2010--where Microsoft bought HARD into console exclusivity there. There were multiple Xbox 360 bundles for Monster Hunter Frontier, and from 2010 to 2013 the Xbox was the only console that had access to it. Once 2013 came around though, Frontier rebooted into Frontier G and only saw console exclusivity from April 2013 to about November, where multiple versions started rolling out for the PS3, PS Vita and even the Wii-U. Meanwhile Tales of Vesperia? They went with Microsoft for the funding, and immediately upon release of the 360 version started developing the 'definitive' edition for PS3 with additional voicework, extra characters and content that had to be cut for the 360 release and it released about a year later. Microsoft really screwed themselves over since first announced the 360 with the Japanese market. The exclusive titles like Blue Dragon and the like were them just floundering to try and do damage control, but it obviously never really stuck.
CursedSushi
2020-09-27 19:29:53 +0000 UTCI could be incorrect, but isn't Sony making like 2x more PS5's than they made PS4 or PS3? Personally, I got a PS4 in April 2014 and there were a ton on the shelf despite the scarcity in late-2013. I wouldn't be surprised if the 2nd wave simmers everything down.
M I K E Y M O
2020-09-26 16:26:11 +0000 UTCOpting out of downloading 4K textures/content is already an option on current Xbox One Consoles.
Drayton Williams
2020-09-26 15:29:21 +0000 UTCYeah, but Ian deserves a long rest
R.F. Switch
2020-09-26 13:52:52 +0000 UTCThey were too afraid of the switch pro /s :D
2020-09-26 10:01:30 +0000 UTCMicrosoft and Sony should have delayed the launch to March 2021 to have enough consoles and avoid the preorder chaos. Both would have sold the same amount of consoles in their fiscal year and people would have been less annoyed.
SmallTurtle1985
2020-09-26 09:19:46 +0000 UTCAw, no more regular Ian makes me sad π.
2020-09-26 06:42:22 +0000 UTCUni-ball is so good. Pen shout-outs!
RanchoCucamunga
2020-09-26 02:58:33 +0000 UTCHeck yeah Brad using a uni-ball pen, the best pen next to Pilot G2
Andrew Burton
2020-09-26 01:53:04 +0000 UTCCORRECTION: I believe you read the year wrong on the first question for Skyrim's the Limit. The membership would expire in the year 75 Million AD, not 75 Thousand
G the Finger
2020-09-26 00:05:09 +0000 UTCSuggestion: EZA News Flash is in my opinion a terrible name, that is not at all as interesting as the previously successful, Breaking News
Spinexel
2020-09-25 22:32:39 +0000 UTCDamiani's Microsoft/Bethesda takes are so strange. I mean yeah, it's possible they could make this stuff exclusive but there isn't anything in the way that Microsoft has *recently* done business to suggest that is likely. And I'm not even going to try to understand why he thinks that would be something to be excited about.
Matt Lopez
2020-09-25 20:40:20 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed this episode. Damiani and Blood were both on fire!
Kexx
2020-09-25 20:18:16 +0000 UTCI remember the PS2 launch and our Walmart only got 12 for the Xmas season, and we were the largest one in the country at the time. I had to set up a local network with my retail counterparts at Target, Gamestop, and Best Buy to get an idea of numbers in the area to relay to customers. This is not new.
Justin Greene
2020-09-25 19:44:14 +0000 UTCOh man, if only the Allies waited until next week to talk about Michel Ancel's departure from gaming cause hooooooooo boy: https://next.liberation.fr/images/2020/09/25/jeu-video-les-coulisses-effarantes-d-un-blockbuster-geant_1800522 Someone was gracious enough to provide some translations of the full article: https://twitter.com/icotom/status/1309519801904230400
Karl Williams
2020-09-25 19:05:49 +0000 UTCNice, you used my Silver Lining :)
Harrison Holt-McHale
2020-09-25 18:36:18 +0000 UTC
