Your X series might get slimmer this year, you wouldn’t believe what’s on Phil Spencer’s shelf, the death cycle is finally on Xbox consoles, let’s discuss it, here with me is Jimmy Champagne, he runs a little information called PS ready, but we don’t need to talk about that right now, we can talk about his other information but steam decorated no not steam just deck ready yeah just decorated deck ready I think it’s more similar to Xbox ready because you know it’s handheld Xbox releases their games on steam although they’re also on game pass which is a whole lot but you have you have some cool Xbox news to talk about and today I have a lot of Xbox news, a lot of news, like I had to, it’s hard to like narrow it down uh, actually no, like we have three good topics yeah, pretty slow on the news front but there are some interesting things happening first of all is the death cycle, up until this point has been Playstation we all knew this was coming, the death cycle is made by arcane studios which is produced by bethesda publishing studios, which is owned by Microsoft, so we knew this was coming, and for a strange time it was like a Microsoft xbox game that you could only play on the console but this period is finally coming to an end, what do you think? We have to give Playstation some credit because they did a lot of marketing for Death Cycle, they knew ahead of time that Microsoft was going to buy Bethesda, but they still did the state of the game, they did the showcase, they did the Twitter marketing trailer, all that stuff, and then Death Cycle came out and got a ton of 10 out of 10 reviews, and oddly enough, there were a lot of Youtubers I looked at my favorite Youtuber G- People for Life and they were a little harsh on the game, but then the normal like writer critics, I’m not really a game journalist, they were given a 10.
I decided to look at it myself and I picked up the game and it was very good and I spent 20-25 hours and I did everything you can do in this game and I got all the weapons and I came up with all the different ways you can kill the visionaries and by the end I was so absolutely powerful that I did the final loop where you kill everyone in one run and the first time I tried it, it was so scary.
It’s a great game and the problem we’re going to have is that in this game we saw what happened with Ghost Fire Tokyo and now we’re seeing what happened with Bug Snacks because I see these games coming out on Playstation first and they might be good, they might be perfect, they might run well, they might look great, and when they come to Xbox they’re going to end up being better , because they’ll have new content, and that’s what happened with Bug Snacks.
That’s what I know about Bug Snacks, yeah, Bug Snacks is something that I have to admit, right now I don’t really care about it as much as the news coverage, you know I love PlayStation, I saw this game and it reminded me of Octodad, yeah, that was a meme when the ps4 came out, it was the same developer and I thought It’s cool, I can see why this became a meme game, it doesn’t look like something for me, I took a look at Bug Snacks and I feel the same way but it’s a good example of a game that we have coming to Xbox from Playstation and there’s more content that’s a death cycle situation that could happen around September if I had to bet that we know that both Playstation and Xbox will do exclusive deals, and Xbox has been in the headlines lately, like full.
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. But I mean, they’ve dabbled in this too, like we know that Tomb Raider game they did with Crystal Dynamics Xbox, it’s crazy, why would you do that? I don’t know how well Death Cycle sold, but I think Death Cycle was a great system seller for the PlayStation 5 Yeah, they didn’t have any big games at the end of last year, right, they were still riding the train, releasing the new expansion to Tsushima for free, the PS5 patch, they did the PS5 patch for Horizon Zero Dawn to make it run at 60 degrees. They’re just patching the ps4 game, adding a little bit of content, doing the director’s cut, so yeah, there’s a new game in the death cycle that’s exclusive, whereas the xbox really only has as far as I know Gears Tactics and Halo Infinite to look forward to, which helps Sony quite a bit, I guess, but yeah. It’s an interesting thing that when these games are officially only playable on consoles, they move to the Xbox consoles, and we saw that at MIB last year, and it’s an interesting phenomenon, like you just said with Death Loop, on the way to the Ghost Line in Tokyo.
