We good, we good chat. Sorry, we had to.
We had to do an impromptu stream.
It's not every day. The head of Xbox, Phil Spencer
retires RAM and not only does he retire, he was he he takes Sarah
bond with him. He's resigned.
Now, what does this mean for Xbox?
Not even barely. Barely 24 hours.
Since PlayStation stood on an
almighty rake. Bruv, what are you saying?
Before we go in, let me chat, we've got Luke Steele.
Good to see you. Herman Hall successfully bending
Satya's ear to Chuck, Bond and Spencer and appoint an AI
leader, all to steer the bad news away from himself.
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Wow, wow.
You can't. You can't make it up.
They, these guys, please say
Xboxes love stepping on Rakes. But ultimately, we have to
digest what's going on because you might say gas, you've not
been a Phil Spencer fan of late. And I've been critical.
I've been critical because he's been the head of Xbox and I
expect him to, you know, fight back in some of the things I
didn't like. A lot of the he was judicious
with the truth on the four games and all of this stuff.
And a lot of stuff didn't pan out.
And Xbox is where it's at. It's a long conversation.
We're not going to do a retread of the history of how Xbox shot
itself in the foot this Gen What's up, Eldrick?
But but we have to digest what's going on because it's not good
news. It's not good news because of
who is replacing Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond?
Who the hell is Asha Sharma, Brav?
Who is Asha Sharma? It's Sharma Geddon.
Up in this bitch, we've got serious questions to raise about
the future direction of Xbox and I I don't know where it's at,
right? Now, I, I, it's going to take a
while. I, I'm not sitting here.
Look, I'm not going to sit here and say it's gloom and doom, but
it's a gloom and doom, bro. This woman has no who is she?
What is her gaming pedigree? She doesn't look like she I
looked at briefly her history. It's nothing.
It it is danger. It is a problem for Xbox.
Xbox has been reduced to us basically.
A. Third party company anyway.
But then it now it's it's 25th year anniversary.
All of us thought that Phil Spencer would go off on a high
that he would go off introduce the next Xbox and step down.
He couldn't even wait for that couldn't even wait for that.
The girls just like, let me go the the this this Herman Holst
news is perfect time. They're they're mad at
PlayStation. Let me step down now Can't be a
coincidence. Surely they didn't plan to do
this a day after. Cannot be cannot.
Be the case. Cannot be the case.
They must have thought, OK,
well, now that the there's a lot of negative news about a Sony
CEO, let me just announce my retirement and Sarah Bond
resigns. Sarah Bond has been angling for
this job for a while, man. She's been dying to take over
the dying to take over the reins.
Everyone said that she's second in, come on, 2nd in, come on,
she's going to do it. And instantly she resigns on the
same day it's spelled. I'm telling you right now,
there's no, there's some bad blood there.
There's no way on earth. Sarah Bond just said, Oh, you
know what, Phil, I love you so much.
I'm going to step down because I'm so loyal to you.
It's more like a case of oh, right.
Where's my wrist? That position you piece of this
is supposed to be my now you got satin Adela's freaking niece or
something behind up. Who is this woman, bro?
She's some head of AI bod bro. Do you understand the beast?
The the the the absolute beastage in the yeastage that's
happening right now at Xbox? This is not good news.
Xbox's future. I had Jess Corden on a few weeks
ago on the show I was talking about.
You know, Phil Spencer was an absentee landlord.
And, you know, you had Amy Hurd and Satya Nadella, whoever the
hell running the show and. He was like.
No, no, no, Phil Spencer's really important.
Phil Spencer's really important. And OK, And then Jess says I'm
worried about what happens after the fact.
Well now, time to worry now. And yeah, hey, it ain't good
news. It ain't good news.
It's going to take some Herculean spin.
Right now off the bat, unless she starts making some major
proclamations. Who's going to expect Rav?
Who's going to expect that? Who's going to expect that?
Nobody. Rav.
Is the music levels OK? Yeah.
Oh my God. Good.
What's up, Cypher? Good to see you, bro.
It is mad. It is mad.
It is insane. This week has been a mad week.
So much drama. So much.
First of all, your boy gets a joint Insider gaming and ends up
ends up on freaking absolute trending on Twitter from because
the PlayStation fanboys are crying constantly.
Why? Why do the PlayStation guys feel
so mad that I joined inside a gaming?
Do you guys That means I I hurt you so bad.
I hurt you so bad that you habitual pony pieces of God were
crying for days. Even at red Karen bruv.
He was about to go to Thailand to buy his second wife.
You had him crying daily. You had so many people just
crying constantly every day. It's it's Japan, it's Xbox, It's
that weird. Eric, that guy who sounds like
he's going to shoot up at school.
It's there's all these weird. Freaking weirdos are still
crying, so I'd be dealing with that.
I'd be just sitting there and just laughing, bro.
Like Xbox shits the bed and it's still I win again, again and
again. But yeah, I have to be a little
bit more professional on inside a gaming channel, but over here
I can do whatever. The hell.
What? And we've got good things coming
for this channel as well. Lots of content, lots of access
and ponies. I'm going to review those
PlayStation games properly. It's a bad time.
A good reviewer took over. Yeah.
But so we had that bro. Then yesterday out of nowhere
PlayStation kills freaking blue point for what reason?
They save money. It's a 70 man studio.
They built demon souls. What a 92 game ever since
they're so talented. They were beast.
They were beast like what do you want?
They was just saying on a gold mine you could just produce
bloodborne remake. Boom done.
You had them work on a God of. War.
Live service game And then you just kill them.
You kill them. This is worse than what Xbox did
to the initiative. The initiative was just a a new
project. Quadruple a studio that they
hide out of nowhere. Then start working with Crystal
Dynamics to make perfect dark killed it.
Bullshit move. But.
They haven't even produced a game.
Blue Point produced freaking bangers and you killed them.
There were studios making designed for remakes.
There were studio relegated for remakes.
Unlike what's happened with God of Wars getting 3 remakes from
the freaking same. You're just taking resources
away from a studio to make more remakes.
You had a studio that was making beast ass remakes already and
you killed them just. Dub Herman Holst in unison.
I've never seen ponies like this this mad.
I don't think I've seen any ponies this mad.
They couldn't even put a path on King Thrashers.
Pretending this is a good thing or it's not a Herman Holst
fault. I don't even don't want to
entertain that angle at the moment.
What's going on? It's a stupid Brev.
Oh man, it is mad. It's a madness in the dunya
Brev. And then let's let's just over
24 hours, Phil Spencer retires, which means I have to make a new
song for him. But it's Ramadan, I can't be
singing. And shit shattered 83 people.
What's his face like? What?
Why you focus on the yesterday's news?
Why do I focus on? Oh, you're saying he's going to
put out context to today's news? Who is this guy?
Venom Quest? I bet he's a pony.
Let me look at his history. Standard, standard, standard,
standard. Why are you like this?
Xbox is dead, bro. It's always the same.
Don't focus on the negatives of PlayStation.
Yeah, well. Are you you?
You are, you're the same guy. I was crying to his mom because
I joined inside a gaming or something right.
Phil Spencer got fired and they didn't give Sarah the job.
Phil Spencer has been sat. I told you he's been absentee
landlord, but you know, before ever, whatever you say about
Phil, his legacy, he saved Xbox. He told, he told.
Satya Nadella, We need to be in the space we.
Owe him as gamers. Even if you're a pony gamer or
well, hardcore PlayStation fan, Boss will never want to admit
they'll just want Xbox to die. They don't give a shit about
things like competition and stuff like that because they're
they're fake pieces of shit. But Phil Spencer saved gaming,
man Phil Spencer saved Xbox in that sense by having some kind
of competitor for a little bit of space and.
And what happened to Xbox's consolidate with ABK kept the
Sony on their toes. And they, they, you know,
they've done some good things. Game Pass is a good thing,
irrespective of the value that seems to have dwindled for the
price hikes. This and that.
They're another player in this space and we need another player
in this space. And Sony's meandering and moving
around and manoeuvring and taking the piss is exactly why
you need another player in this space, man.
It's just more evidence of the fact that Sony gets LAX, they'll
just take the piss. And they got LAX already even
because of the Xbox One generation where they cosigned
more live service games than anything else.
They cancelled more games than announced games.
It's insane. And they killed another studio
and now what's happening with Xbox.
So you have to have the context. Now Phil Spencer has gone.
Now you've got Asher Sharma. Who is she?
Well, I've got some An article
from Insider Gaming RAM. I've got an article from us, I
should say us ponies. US.
You guys are bad now you haven't even understand Imagine.
What I will do? But the access to the
informations I will have. I will deliver the truth.
It's about time, bro. You guys, I always said guys, oh
guys are going to get softer. Guys is going to be this and
that. I'm going to get smarter, bro.
I'm going to find out the memes. I'm going to find out the
schleams in the industry. I'm going to go.
I could have done this with Game On Daily a long time ago, but
that was some news aggregation site.
Could not really a journalistic site in that sense but now I'm
going to find out common house address.
No, I'm not. I'm not going to do that.
That was a joke. Let me go.
And it's a mix of memes. What's this Brav?
All right, let me hide my. God's sake.
It's got the other picture, all right.
Anyway, you don't need to see that thing.
Let's go into the tings. Brav hide the border brav safe.
And why am I using Edge all the time?
Edge is actually fast on this, funnily enough.
I. Need you to install Opera in
major breaking news, he's he's retired.
He goes. I want to thank Phil.
Oh, this is from freaking Satya. He search Satya says I want to
thank Phil for his extraordinary leadership and partnership.
He sent an e-mail to thingy over the 38 years I might 38 years is
a long time, bro. It's a long time.
It's a long time 38 years a long time 38 years bro.
So you're not even long that long, are we?
Some of us, Are we even that old?
Wait, wait. I'm on camera.
Here are the freak. Did I do that?
Bro, I've got different settings.
I've got so many different settings and things here.
I can, I can fix that Safe. I really need to organise my
shit chat. I need to organise my shit.
Let's see, Let's see. Let's see, Let's see, let's see,
let's see, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Safe, right? Yeah.
You don't need to see my face anywhere.
Fuck it. Let me just cut this out.
All right? Let's go.
So what is he saying? What's he saying?
Display capture. Amy.
No. There.
Yeah. Safe.
Phil helped transform what we do and how we do it, blah, blah,
blah. He extended our reach across PC.
But. Oh.
Shit, yo, you did a piece of shit.
You made him do it. Nearly tripled the size of the
business. Helped shape our strategy, bro.
Yeah, he did actually. Because you would have killed
Xbox. It wasn't for him.
Through the acquisition of Activision Blizzards, Zenimax
and Minecraft and strengthened our culture.
He did all these things. Phil Spencer did all those
things. You know, he did because he
cared about gaming. Asha Hussein, though, I don't
know. Oh, Asha, was it Sharma?
Asha Hussein Spencer. And his memo said that he
thinking about stepping back and starting the next chapter of my
life. What's that, Brav?
What is that? That moment we aligned on
approaching the transition to the attention, stability and
strengthening? This is bullshit.
Xbox has always been more than a business.
It's a vibrant community of players that we shat on,
creators and teams who care deeply.
And it deserves thoughtful and deliberate plan for the thought.
What is the thoughtful, deliberate plan?
You freaking reacted the day after Herman Hustler was getting
marked. And who the hell is Asha Sharma?
Taking over the head of gaming is Microsoft Asha Sharma.
Sharma has been previously the head of Core AI and Microsoft
Safe. That's that's going to really
help. After joining the company, Matt
Booty, who will remain with Xbox, is moving up to chief
content officer. What has Matt Booty?
Done Brav. It's just I don't get it.
Brav to to. Meet the moment We will invent
new business models and new ways to play by leaning into what we
already have. Iconic teams, characters and
worlds that people blah blah blah.
But we will not treat those worlds as static IP to milk and
monetise, OK? Wait, hold on A.
Minute Sharma said that they they won't flood the market with
soulless AI slop. But she's the AI bot.
I won't believe it until I see it.
But we will treat this one not to milk her montage.
We will build a shared platform. And tools that empower
development and bullshit as monetization AI evolve.
She can't even get AI out of her mouth.
Bruv, we will. Not.
Chase short term efficiency and flood our ecosystem with
soulless AI slop. This is just marketing
buzzwords. Games are always all beyond
buzzwords. That means she's such an AI
piece AI bod that she had to come out and say it bro.
Why is this? Come on bro.
Why does it? Look chat, I'm not being stupid
bro, I'm telling you this shit changes all the time.
I don't even know. Anyway.
Wait, what? Why, why, Why is the green bar
coming? Oh, Jesus.
How do I zoom out? Oh fuck the stress.
The stress looks so bad at the green line at the bottom one
second one. We got it.
We. Got it.
We got it. We got it.
Yeah.
All right, chat. So actually I was saying it is
not. Inspiring any confidence in me,
I'm not going to lie. Oh shit, we got super chat, we
got Kiwan. Mcculley 552 Thank you for the
$5 super chat. How do you think the Japanese
will support for? You guys now for me.
Guys now who? Who are you talking to?
Brav Insider Gaming. What are you talking about?
You. Talking about Xbox, who's it's
not us, I'm not Xbox. How do you think the Japanese
support will be for Xbox? I presume now.
I don't know Brav, I don't know her.
I don't know, I don't know. It's.
Gaz is retiring. Game over.
Phil Phil Spencer. I've got to sing a song, Phil
Spencer. Good old Phil.
Spencer, I sang a song for you and I sang a song for Jim Ryan
as well when he retired, so it is only fair.
I sing a song for Phil Spencer. Yeah, I shouldn't sing a song.
I shouldn't I? Hey, just sing a song, Spencer.
Spencer. Why are you leaving us now for?
Ashley Sharma? Nobody.
Knows Bill Spencer. Oh.
Spencer as you. Said only four games, but we
still miss. You Spencer and Ceremony leave
it as with that booty is just a piece of.
Phil Spencer it has been. An emotional ride.
I'm sure it's taken its toll on your health, but we wish you.
All the best in your future endeavours.
Yeah. Phil Spencer.
Oh, Spencer, Spencer, Spencer, Yes, now.
It's your time to be PlayStation and Xbox CEO all at once.
Hire me. Bro, hire me.
Why you got freaking? Why you got freaking?
What's his name? Satya Nadella's cousin in the
job, Bro. Get me, bro.
Come on bro. I will sort that shit out bro.
I will sort that shit out. Well I'm very intrigued at how
Xbox is going to handle this shit.
But general default position should be.
You should be concerned when an AI bod comes in to take over
this place. Bro.
It's going to be a situation, Rav.
It's a situation, Rav. Happy birthday, Rav.
You're more upset that you won't hear these songs.
I know I want to sing a song for Sharma and Nadella.
It's not the same anymore, Brav. Yes, it's over, Brav.
It's a mad situation all over. Nintendo's just watching like
these guys just killing themselves.
What's going? On.
Sony just. Shitting the bed their.
Leadership doesn't know what they're doing.
They're chasing gas so hard they can't even monetize on it.
And when they want to and they have, look, I'm supporting them.
I'm supporting. Them, but the fans aren't happy
and then they've and the fans. Standards have dropped so much
they'll freaking cap for a 68 Metacritic 2D freaking God of
War game that looks like ass. And then you've got.
That, well, whatever Xbox has been.
Constantly just but their software looks so good, but now
you've got an AI bot to steer it.
You had the head of. Phil Spencer was a gamer.
She's not. No one knows who she is.
She had 1000 followers on Twitter.
Now I'm sure she's got loads more but what the hell man.
She didn't even have no one knows who she is.
What is she going to do? Bro?
It is a. Madness.
Here's Phil Spencer. Let's go to Phil Spencer's shit.
It's rare in. Life.
When? A chapter is closing, but after
30-8 years, that moment for me, I've made a decision to retire.
He can retire. I will say that the man.
'S been there for. 38 years, visibly he's looking tired.
He has dealt with major shit writing the responsibility of an
Xbox gaming division on his shoulder, saving it.
Saving it so Xbox didn't walk away from gaming then.
Had to withstand $80 billion acquisition that was on his
neck. Obviously that's going to stress
the shit out of him. And so much shit that happened
hardcore. Fans that evangelised the brand
came at him merked. Him for this multiplass strategy
and he's tired of it. And now I want to step down.
I understand that. Whatever, but where does that
leave Xbox? I'm excited for Asha.
Asha when I screenshot that she had 1000.
Now she has 6000 followers. Bro, she's still not.
Even got as. Much as me, but soon she'll have
about £10,000. What is this?
Today I began my role as CEO of Xbox.
Here are my 3 commitments. Great games return of Xbox.
Return of. Xbox.
What the fuck does return of Xbox mean bro?
Oh shit. She's bringing back exclusive
safe. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And wait, wait, what was the other thing?
The future. Of play.
She's already chatting shit from the background.
Start bro wait. Let me see this this blog.
What does Future of Play? Bro.
I am long on gaming and its role at the centre of consumer
ambition. Oh my God, you.
Just. Doesn't sound.
Like a gamer at all? I'm long on gaming.
Gaming is a nice little piece of the pie.
Is it? I'm excited to share that Asher.
Oh, Oh no, that. Who the hell is this?
Oh, Saturn. Of course this piece of shit
would sound like. A robot.
Where's Saturn? Where's her word?
What is she doing? Has helped build scale services
that reach billion. Support thrive.
Bullshit, Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
This is. Come on, Rav.
None of it sounds convincing, Rav.
Future of Play. What is what is the special Nick
doing? Why is he sucking the Dick?
Oh my God. Hi Asha, feel the besties in the
show. I expect for similar of yourself
going forward you absolute sucker.
He's doing the jokey way. Welcome Asha.
We look forward to your commitment to gaming and great
games. Interesting developments huh?
Chat chat. Let me see what you guys are
saying. Come on, this is great news for
Xbox. Explain to me BTTF.
Marty, how this is good news for Xbox?
I'm I'm all it is. I want to.
Hear it, Rev. What has Asha Sharma got that is so lit?
Tell me it's All Star Fields fault.
Tell me. Tell me.
There's AI want to know. I want to know how someone can
twist this into its positive growth.
Oh, he's trolling. Oh.
We get an. Indian Master Chief next year yo
bro, the way Satya Nadella's going bro, it wouldn't even
surprise me bro. I got to wait and see how this
year turns out for Xbox. It just doesn't.
Inspire confidence, does it? That's the only thing.
Look. At the end of the.
Day Xbox is such a big mega publisher that you they I don't
know how they're going to steer that they're going to give them
autonomy there's going to be quality control.
It seems like there's a lot more quality control because they're
making hard decisions and you feel that you know, the studios
are under the cosh here, but Asha, you know when there's a
transition like this, it's not exactly 1 where you know at on.
The 25th anniversary Phil Spencer steps down before just
in the middle of. It, I don't know, like what's
going on, you know, but the transition happens.
There's a there's a some sort of movement, but then again, Phil
Spencer has been an absentee landlord.
I would say that because, you know, the, the bods higher up
have been taken over. So I question how much of
day-to-day decision making that he does that impacts the studios
that fall under the Xbox banner. Actually I was saying.
This and I what is relevance to gaming?
I have no idea. Nothing.
Nothing as far as I'm concerned. Asha is a beautiful, fine lady,
though. Excuse me.
Get put it in your pants. It's Ramadan Abdul.
Just put it in your pants. OK, but what's going to happen?
Nothing It's it's done, man. That's what I'm saying that it's
it's I don't know. I don't know.
I know what happens going to by tomorrow, the Xbox goes.
I'm like, give it a. Chance you don't even.
It's going to be like, yeah, shut up, bro.
I'm going to be very, very pessimistic about the role
because on paper you've not given me anything to be
optimistic about and you haven't even if she if.
Sarah. Bond had taken over Sarah Bond
mobile division this and that Alicia, her charisma and she
earned her star stars there. Man, she really worked hard
communicating sometimes wrongly. You know, with the whole
interview with Bloomberg talking about, you know, how why the
kill tango game works, but at the same time, she seemed quite
passionate. People I know who met her said
she's really nice. But after all that she said she
resigned with Phil Spencer is bare dodgy, bro.
I feel that that's a bit that's a weird situation.
That's a weird situation that she steps.
She resigned alongside Phil Spencer.
Why did she resign? I'm telling you there's more of
a story there. I'm telling you there's way more
of a story there. That just doesn't happen unless
she was so joint at the hip with Phil Spencer, which means that
Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond were, you know, sleeping with
each other. I'm not saying that was the
case. So it just means that there's
bad blood. Sarah Bond was promised
something. Clearly, Satya's cousin got it
instead by us. Microsoft says no layoff.
Yeah, right. I'm going to start propagating
this website. I work for these guys.
Bastards. They work for me.
Bastard. But yeah, they Microsoft says no
layoffs coming after executive shake up.
I made a massive restructuring at Xbox with Spencer and Sarah
Bond leaving. My EVP of Microsoft games says
the organisational changes are not happening at Xbox owned
studios. In an internal memo, Matt Booty,
now Microsoft's chief content officer, noted that his primary
focus is on supporting staff in place and helping them achieve
their best. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's all blah. It's all my marketing blah.
I will cut through the blah for you, OK?
It's all blah. It's all blah.
But Sarah Bond resigning is always a full memo.
We've read the full memo. It's just, yeah.
Now look at this. As part of this transition
transition, Sarah Bond has decided to leave Microsoft to
begin a new chapter at PlayStation.
Sarah has been instrumental during a defining period of Xbox
shaping off platform strategy, expanding game pass and cloud
gaming, supporting new hardware launches.
Got which hardware launches Brav are you talking about?
Brav on the rogue Ally and guiding some of the most
significant moments in our history, which are there Blad.
I'm grateful for her partnership and the impact she's had and I
wish her the very best. It's going, I'm telling you
right now. She did not.
Oh. That looks nice.
She did not leave on our own court.
Like she didn't leave on good terms.
I don't think she left on good terms.
No chance, no chance, no freaking chance, no chance.
She left on good terms. That are you, man?
It's. It's crazy.
So what does that mean? For Xbox, you think it was
forced retirement? I think she just, well, yeah,
she she, I think she wanted the Phil Spencer role and they gave
it to Asha Sharma, whoever she. Is she was just a face, APR
person says. How?
What? What is Asha Sharma?
I don't know. I mean, I saw.
Asha. Sharma's tweet, the first, first
tweet is like, we're going to bring Xbox back.
It's quite funny that says bring Xbox back, because that's a kind
of isn't that an acknowledgement that Xbox isn't back yet, that
something's missing, something's awry?
That's a good point. Brav that I've just made.
Yeah, in my head it's true though.
Brav freaking Herman Holster is so happy right now.
He's like, oh, the, the, the heat is.
Off me right now Brav I was getting.
Absolutely grilled I was, but he's right.
He's written like resignation letter you pieces of shit.
I love this job and such good holidays that gas money wasn't
rolling in, but fuck it. And then he then he saw all the
news. He's like.
Oh. Shit, long good time for me.
Thank you, Phil. Now he gets to chill.
Thanks to Phil, I'm in house. Gets to chill.
Thanks to Phil return of Xbox I'm going to I'm going to tweet
that or return of Xbox return of Xbox from what Xbox from what,
from what and future of play what's.
Future of. Play Future of play.
Commitment. To future of play means what?
Means what? Brav.
Doesn't mean anything, Brav. I'm so scared to be honest.
Gaz, why are you scared of Brav? I'm.
So scared Gaz. Brav, he'll be OK.
Back, you need to relax. No, not to be.
Scared about video games? Brav.
It's. AIAI generated that, didn't it?
Makes sense. Boba Fett.
Sarah was never the answer. I don't care, Sarah.
I don't know if I'm not saying Sarah Bond was the answer, I'll
be honest with you. But she did more than whoever
the hell Asha Sharma is. Like what's going on?
You're stupid. Come on chat.
OK, let me do a poll. Let me do a poll.
If you guys maybe I'm being negative.
Are you confident in Xbox now? Let's see.
Stop all boom. And.
I know people say you or guys is a bot channel, doesn't that
you've seen my streams. There's equal amount of ponies
now in my my streams as well so it's never that.
But my polls have been pretty pretty good.
Not be 1 sided. It's not like your echo chamber
podcast. This is this is where some memes
happen. And look at the.
Results. Right now.
Well, it's early on, OK with the the votes keep coming in.
I asked are you confident in Xbox and 68% of you are saying
no as the votes come in. Am I playing Resident Evil
Requiem me next week? Good question.
No I need to play next Resident Evil next week but I've got I
want to play this this. I will play Resident Evil
requiem though, but in my own time I want to play this.
I'm the only person supporting Marathon.
I'm the only person. Supporting marathon the the
ponies don't know good games they they backed.
Concorde Why does it look? I love this I.
Love this limited edition box bruv.
Someone goes, oh you shelling for marathon me?
You think they'll dead Game Pass?
I don't think so. Nothing's.
Off the table, but I don't think so.
I. Don't know this is like.
Metallica dropping Saint anger. It's over.
I remember that. That was a weird moment.
It's it's.
Weird. Is it bad?
It's a weird situation. There's so much to pick apart on
Saturday or tomorrow. Tomorrow, not in 24 hours.
We're going to have a guest and I'm going to talk about all this
shit, but generally the position is Xbox is.
Is none again. Always I was working on a video
talking about, you know, the negatives and positives and
generally the the software is positive.
The hardware thing is an interesting position, but when
you get leadership changes like this, then it suggests it
doesn't suggest stability. And when you get.
Asha Sharma, who I don't know who she is.
What does that mean? But you know, what does that
mean for the brand? Well, what are they doing?
What's Xbox is steered by Satya Nadella.
These corporals are running this place and Sonny's not impervious
as well. You got Herman House killing off
of her beloved studios, focusing gas, not even the right waves.
It's like every company is just all the big boys are just soon
these platforms, there's going to be 1 main platform.
I mean, there's going to be, there's already platform
agnostic, let's be honest. So what we're actually.
Seeing is like the death. Of that whole platform
distinction really is most of these games are multiplayer.
Go see the Sony's showcase. Someone put the graphic up.
Almost all games apart from three are multiplayer.
And those three are going to come to PC eventually.
So slow what? And now you see the kind of
figures that are coming out. No wonder PlayStation is
bringing games to, you know, everywhere.
No one's supported the devs. They didn't support the freaking
Blue Point and the Demon Souls remake they were wanking off
about. Now the excuse is Oh no no, it's
only because Blue Point weren't doing anything and they had
poor. Sales.
Why wouldn't they shut them out? I was like you fucking why?
Are you serious? Now you're saying there wasn't
enough sales? I thought you bought games and
supported quality. What happened bro?
Marathon will be end game before Xbox.
Don't you say Marathon will end game before Xbox.
I want a marathon. To be good.
Come on you Bungie man. Do you not care about Bungie?
Although Benji is. Probably a shadow of his former
self. So I get it.
Leon cures himself in D ages. Bad ending, he dies.
Leon Kennedy. Getting that cursor's actually
sick, but I hope they don't cheese it out.
But Capcom always cheese out. Oh, he'll find.
The cure? You're OK now.
Bad ending. Is he dies?
Bad ending, Good ending. Is he dies, don't do a freaking.
The last of. Us with Joel.
Oh, they killed him off. Like Leon Kennedy coming back
alone was sick, but having a what?
What's good about a game where you have a protagonist that just
keeps living on and just overstays his welcome or you get
one that, you know, has a good death or a good retirement?
I think to the certain extent Nathan Drake just sat there on
his PlayStation playing games or, you know, whatever they're
showing the final bit and Uncharted for.
It's a nice way to kind of wrap it up.
He doesn't die because he's a nice guy.
You don't want him to die, but he just chills, finds his chick
has some kids and stuff. Well, you do have a kid.
You play his door or something, don't you?
I. Don't remember.
I love. But I don't want Leon.
Kennedy to just carry on living and find a cure and it becomes a
Capcom's games and like stories end up like very Bollywood.
If you know anything, you remember the Resident Evil CGI,
all their movies. They're so over the top it's
ridic. It's actually a joke.
It's like the Fast and furious of combat, but you know the gun
bat. They're just shooting each
other. And they're just the bullets are
just missing them here, they're just shooting each other loads
point blank in, in Capcom, I can show you, and they're just
shooting each other, dancing, doing a ballet.
They're right in front of each other, no bullets hitting each
other. So dumb.
So I hope they veer towards a little bit more seriousness with
Resident Evil, yeah. Then the next one.
Whatever you think, Ninja Theory survives under new management.
About. Studios surviving, I don't think
Asha Sharma is going to is she's going to be very, very scared
and you know, even if who has the power ultimately in the the
end, but I don't think they will be shutting down studios anytime
soon. Oh, I may be wrong, but I don't
think so. I think at the moment that
negative news would really hurt Sharma's tenure there or she's
already just started and her premiere or not premiere, she
can't even call it that, which is basically just while her
while she's there. It feels that studios are now
starting to stabilise. Now what's happened is Microsoft
is sent a mandate that we won't just tolerate nonsense.
Before there was two hands off and it felt like they just had
carte blanche to do anything and they could just sign off on art
projects. And because Microsoft is just
buying, buying, buying, there was no oversight.
That has changed. That doesn't mean that they're
going to end up just killing Ninja Theory.
Ninja Theory is one of their beloved studios.
If they if they kill them, they are so gone.
They're so gone and so many people go hell Blade 2.
It's just an art project. Listen that you're so stupid if
you think of that because you don't understand how.
And it's the same thing with Blue Point.
How could you get rid of that talent?
They're so supremely talented. If they couldn't produce a game
after your live service mandate, get them to work on something
else. It's on you.
You're the one who imposed the mandate.
The same thing applies with Ninja Theory.
Microsoft cannot afford to let go such a supremely talented
studio. With Ninja Theory, they can't
afford to do that. It's studios like Undead Labs
that I'm really keeping an eye on.
Like, what are they doing? There's so much internal
turmoil. It reminds me almost of the
initiative. Are they going to survive
because that what have they been doing?
They've been showing us the same shit for ages.
Part miners gameplay a couple of years ago.
But are we going to see it? Are we going to see it like I
don't get it like that is it like that studio doesn't seem
like it's stable. So I don't know.
We'll see. We'll.
See Studio closing. Is just part of it.
They'll restructure and form different studios.
It is what it is. What?
What do you mean? I don't think Amazon wants a
dying brand. Amazon The red 4 memes were
legit hilarious. The ones where the enemies
circle you but you can't have any more red fours.
Microsoft were always interfering with film and teams
planning one way or the other. They always were Phil Spencer.
This is what I'm saying. Phil Spencer didn't have the
right wrong mindset. He was fighting against
Microsoft execs, but at the same time, well, how can you give
keep giving you the benefit of the doubt if you keep losing
those battles with the execs, but at the mid that you won the
main one, Xbox exists because of you.
How can you rinse the guy for that?
It is what it. Is like the guy saved Xbox.
We should all be grateful, and I am.
But at the same. Time recency bias kicks in and
we kind of judge your whole legacy is one that is judged
from start to finish and the core gaming community the core
of what you know made Xbox in terms of none of that has very
few have very nice not. Not nice things to say, but just
just the way things panned out you.
Xbox Series X&S failed to be a viable competitor and then Phil
Spencer came on stage because we lost the worst generation to
lose, basically saying I. Inherited this mess.
I tried to fix, it didn't. Work and it didn't work.
So that's why we judge you on the thing that didn't work.
But at the same time, sure, it was a monumental uphill battle.
But. There were things like the
Series X power thing that didn't pan out like it should have, so
whose fault is that? You know, or.
Exclusives that launch on the the Series X?
You didn't have any. Whose fault is that?
Halo Infinite gets delayed. By who fault is that?
Brad, there's so. Many Red 4 gets greenlit, no
quality control. Did they still shout out whose
fault is that? There's all these things there.
There's a fuller picture. You know, I know it seems like
I'm harsh on Phil Spencer, but you know, you have to just judge
it like that's how it is. But he's rated and he's a legend
in the space, whether you like it or not Peter MO was the boss.
Different, different, different industry back back then, but it
is what it is like, so we have to say.
Thank you Phil Spencer for. Putting up the good fight.
You were a gamer at the end of the day.
You really tried hard. You really did.
And sure, you lost a few battles of quite big ones in RE in
recent times. And that caused you to recede
away from the public eye where you were so communicative.
And the communication was what we lauded as one of the reasons
why the the community had faith in you.
Remember when before the Series X was launching, there was a lot
more goodwill in the Xbox brand than PlayStation that was just
coasting on its high and didn't give a shit with its policies
and all sorts. It was a mess shit show.
It just turned out that Xbox had successive failures are faulted
and we are where we are. And if that didn't happen, if
Xbox did buy Bethesda and kept them exclusive like Phil Spencer
said, wherever there is, this is for platforms where Game Pass
exists. Things like that.
All that U turns obviously at the time they had a different
intent and they failed. And so not all that that you put
it forward to us to reassure gamers all that faltered.
So that's kind of sad that this man that saved Xbox's legacy is
kind of going to be judged harshly based on Xbox's
performance this Gen where dwindling hardware sells even
beyond last Gen forsaking exclusivity no matter how much
people go exclusivity is bad blah blah blah.
I'm not going into that argument again.
But he did. Well, but generally he fought
for gamers. He really did fight for gamers.
But the cynic in me can't look past the the statements that
just didn't manifest. Like Jim Ryan says, we believe
in generations and then everything was crossed.
Yet it's like you're lying. It's just four games.
Do not take this as a signal. That was a lie.
And I knew it was a lie back then because I knew Hellblade 2
was being worked on on PlayStation.
It was a lie. He was just trying to.
And that kind of shit is like, come on, what?
Have a meeting with Phil Spencer.
Say, come on, Phil, what the hell was that about?
Kenny, how do you? Justify that statement, but
ultimately overall got to respect Phil for Spencer for
keeping the fight. The Xbox wouldn't be here.
Don't let the ponies decide the the narrative because of course
they'll just wank it. They'll defend everything apart
from recently erman halst, which then they'll forgive.
Now, safe to say the gaming bubble has popped.
Don't. Think so the bubble the the
hubris popped post COVID. So the mass layoffs every we've
seen layoffs all the time. My news are just layoffs here,
Ubisoft layoffs here, layoffs here, studio closed here, closed
blue point. It's like, damn.
Who cares if? Sarah was nice.
No one does What? What?
Were you talking about Sarah's Nice?
She's a nice person. OK.
Justice for Sarah Bond. Sarah Bond worked hard, though,
to try and get that role. I'm not saying I had a
confidence in a dealing with it because it's just I don't know.
Ultimately, you have to understand that decisions have
already been made. Do you really expect these
leaders to make memes? I doubt it.
It is what it is.
Why do you think?
Sarah left. I I genuinely.
Think she wanted Phil Spencer's role and then she didn't get it.
It's crazy. Asha, Oh.
Asha Hussein's full memo. Let's look at.
This let me look at this. Let's look at this.
Oh, there's music. I see.
All right. Following Phil Spencer's
retirement announcement, Ashley Sharma has today I will, you
know, begin my role as CEO of Microsoft Gaming.
Microsoft Gaming, Look at that. There's not even Xbox in there.
Look at that. I feel.
Two things at once. Humility and urgency.
Humility because this team has built something extraordinary
over decades. Urgency because gaming is in a
period of rapid change and we need to do.
We need to move with clarity and conviction.
I'm stepping into work shaped by generations of artists,
engineers, designers, writers, musicians, operators and more
who create the world's that we have bought that have brought
joy and deep personal meaning to hundreds of millions of players.
The level of craft here is exceptional and it is amplified
by Xbox, which was founded in the belief that the power of
games connect people and pushes the industry forward.
Thank you Phil for this leadership and to every studio,
platform and operation team that built the foundation.
We are stewards of the some of the most loved stories and
characters in entertainment and bring players and creators
together around the fun and community of gaming in entirely
new ways. My first job is simple.
Understand what makes this work and protect it.
OK then starts 3 commitments. First great games.
OK, she starts off well. There's hope.
Is there hope? Everything.
Begins here OK good, we must have great games beloved by
players before anything unforgettable characters,
stories that make us feel innovative gameplay and are
creating excellence. We will empower our studios fat
GPT brothers in there, invest in iconic franchises and and back
bold new ideas. We will take risks.
Is there hope is. There hope.
Saying the right things, we'll enter new categories and
markets. There's no hope.
Don't. We I don't that means where we
can add real value grounded in what players care about the
most. I promoted my booty in honour of
this commitment. Who?
What? Hold on a minute, you have
barely. Sat on the seat and you're
talking about I promoted my booty.
Shut the. She promoted.
My booty bro. You.
Provided my booty bro. Did you really?
Did you really?
How did you provide? My booty bro.
Was that not? Already designed.
Confirmed it's you're just. The rubber stamp.
Surely at that point, Satya Nadella's like, get that, get
that guy. He's good.
I like him. He's not on the Epstein files.
Adam and. Then you obviously.
Presume, I presume this is already decided.
You come in and you're like, all right, first of all of the day,
we'll make Matt booty. Was he now?
Head of content. She didn't decide, she didn't go
left. I think we.
Should promote Matt Booty. Assata's like, yeah, I don't
know. Sideline on that he understands
the craft. Do you understand that?
Who are you, Bland? Who are you, Brav?
Well, I'm. Going to be very critical of
Asha Sharma man. She might be a.
Boss. You never know, she might
actually be a boss, but nothing on paper suggests that, a
statement said. Nice.
If you've learned anything in this space, never trust the
exacts and what they say. But I'm.
Hurt at. The hubris.
Because she. Started off talking about.
What humility and. I'm not seeing and then I get
it. That doesn't preclude her from
saying some of these things, but doesn't seem like there's a lot
of humility going on. When the first half the bat was
I promoted Matt Booty in honour of this commitment.
If it was me, I would say Matt Booty has been promoted in
honour of this commitment and then say this he understands the
craft and the challenges has led the second the return of Xbox.
Is there hope? Is there hope?
We will. We will recommit to our Xbox
fans and players, those who have invested with us in the past 20
years and and to developers who build the expansive universes
and experiences that embraced. How are you going to commit to
your core fans? You're going to commit.
To your core fat. I love.
That you said that, but that's just word play.
How are you going to reconcile? That with your.
Strategy where everything's How are you going to recommend to
your core fans? Your core fans are on console.
Which you treat like third class citizens.
Are you going to change all that because the rest of it suggests?
OK, let's. See, let's see, let's see, Let's
see. Interesting readings from
Insider. Gaming chat.
Yeah, let's go. We'll.
Commit harder, OK, We'll
celebrate our roots with a renewed commitment to Xbox,
starting with console. Oh, she's the hope.
I don't think that that there's hope.
It connects us to players and fans who live in Xbox.
So they're committed to console. They're they're the core console
fanbase. They're committed to PC.
Where's that? Gaming now lives across devices,
not within. And there it is, the hope, not
within the limits of any single piece of hardware.
As we expand across PC, mobile, cloud, Xbox should feel
seamless, instant and worthy of communities we serve.
We will break down barriers. It's the same shit.
Future of play. What is this?
We are witnessing the reinvention of play?
What the fuck does that mean? To meet the moment, we'll invent
new business models and great new ways to play blah and
already have iconic teams, characters in worlds people
love. We will not treat these waters
OK. Blah blah blah IPAI volv AI slop
games are always will be our the next 25 years belong to the
teams who dare to build something surprising blah blah
blah. I want to return to the renegade
spirit that built Xbox in the 1st place.
This. This I don't think.
You've got the facilities for that.
But prove me. Wrong.
Prove me wrong. Prove us all wrong.
The gaming space needs a competition.
Space needs a freaking Sony needs you to freaking wake up.
75. Percent of you have said you are
not confident in the state of Xbox right now.
That says it. All let me see super chats.
Covered it. AI Talk.
Yep, focused, cheap actions speak louder, says Robbie NH.
Robbie's got it right. Let's see.
Let's. See what happens.
Let's see what happens. I am very, very, very, very,
very, very, very, very pessimistic about it on the face
of it. Interesting development though.
Got some person we don't even know has come in taking this
place. Says that she's freaking
promoted my booty. Oh, that's nice.
Poor Matt is just like, oh, yeah, yeah, thank you.
And then what? Let's see.
Let us see. We'll find out or how this all
pans out chat. It's an interesting development
for Xbox as. A very.
Strong mega publisher that is celebrating its 25th anniversary
is still in the hardware space. This woman says she wants to
bring back Xbox. There's a nuts.
OK, good luck. How are you going to bring back
Xbox console? How are you going to how are you
going to with a niche console which to be honest, I like the
idea of powerful beast console. You would make centre front and
centre. It's all about the games.
You said the right things. It's all about the games.
All right, let's see what the games.
Don't cancel games. Don't cancel freaking studios.
Show us what how how that will work out.
I want to see it. And then?
Obviously finally the future of play which I whatever chat.
It's going to be an. Interesting one.
In less than 24 hours, I will be doing the show again with a
guest to break down everything, including how Herman Hulst
absolutely just merked PlayStation, How we're going to
talk about this the the the retirement of Phil Spencer,
Sarah Bond taken over. What does that mean for Xbox?
It's 25th anniversary. It has to go hard.
We've got a summer showcase event.
It's going to be mad. Let's see.
I'm very pessimistic, but let's see what they can do.
This is Gaz from Septic Source and Insider Gaming.
For how long can they tolerate the rawness of my truth?
We'll see, but I hope you guys enjoy the show.
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My audience sounds like some big headed in my audience, like I'm
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I wish you could jump into the discord so we could chat about
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this bra. Go on this bra.
But Doc, Doc, as you said, it's about time we kill the media
bias, right? That's why they hired me.
They said it's about time. It's about time.
Not everything's Xbox is dead, but it is.
I will bring back, bring back impartiality.
I will be. The saviour of journalistic
integrity, Jonathan says. Slow Newsday.
Yeah, very slow. Brav.
Oh, shit. This is how you celebrate your
25th anniversary, Xbox? Let's see.
There's got to be more.
Developments here I am sure, just hope it's not closures you
you think. I think you should make a few
videos doc. Yep, you should.
Thank you Doc I. Appreciate the kind words.
It's a lot of hard work. From here on out, lots of
coverage. I'm really getting too deep into
the industry to kind of get you the coverage we all deserve.
What's up Sit. Lord, and we're going to do
that. We do a lot, a lot of things
going down. Insider Gaming isn't resting on
its laurels, man. They're not just I didn't just
join Insider Gaming just like that.
I had to scope out what they intend to do.
And what they intend to do is some major memes.
The septic sauce can't join any public.
You think me joining a news publication alone is should tell
you something like you think I'd ever join IGN if they offered no
chance, GameStop, GameSpot, no chance.
It's that a game is probably the only publication I could think
of. I can't think of anyone that
would join but Insider gaming and then a little bit of a
Mavericks in the space not being industry darlings because
because of the nature of it right inside a gaming breaking
the news and this and that and sometimes shred on the feet of
publishers and developers a little bit in the industry
because they gave you that news. But now it's the step it
forward, take it to the nether level, Brev to kind of produce
the content that I've always wanted to produce.
But this channel will not get relegated.
Understand that it's the opposite.
Opposite. The reason why my channel, my
content has been so spotty is because so many things have been
happening. My buying my new business last
year, which is insane. So much ups and downs with just
so much was happening. Getting married.
Yeah. And.
Finding and with with my business, make it
self-sufficient so I don't have to spend so much time there.
It's still working out. But yeah, there's a lot, lot to
do. I have such ambitious things I
want to do. Ambition just drives me.
Asha Sharma step down. It's Sharma Geddon with her
bruv. Get me in there and I will fix
Xbox instantly. Every team would love me there.
I would. Trust me.
I'm not even chatting shit, it would be sick.
Clap Satya. Nadella on the head though.
Smash the like button people. I'm going to sign out.
We're going to see you tomorrow. What's up with nightwave,
Lutrons? Very good question.
It's Ramadan. I tend to kind of wean off
listening to music. I've got sick soundtracks there.
Also Lutrons. The reason why with a nightwave,
I want to make sick montage for some of the the shorts or some
of the tracks. I might do it after sunset.
Yeah, I will make some memes. I'll make some memes.
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