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Defining Duke, Episode 207 | Xbox Ends 2024 in a Blaze of Glory

🕑 Added 2024-12-19 17:00:11 +0000 UTC

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Hugh Jalode

Super late I hope Cog plays and loves FFXVI like I think most of us did!

David P

When even Cog thinks time's gonna be up then 😭

Heretic The Intergalactic Prophet

Thanks for everything this year Dukes! Looking forward to Cog's thoughts on FF16 next year.

NeO JD

At this point, the only thing that’ll incentivize me to get the next Xbox is if they can keep the Day 1 on Game Pass picks relevant. But I have a feeling that may start to drop as well.

Shortsoptional

Excuse me Sir Matty….Tiny Tina’s Wonderland did not, in fact, suck.

Nergal131

Will do, beaver diva

Manuel Nascimento

I mostly agree with Cog's take on the present and future of Xbox. What I see for the past decade is that despite decent titles for the launch for Xbox One, they flopped the push to Kinect, they fumbled the messaging with the "sharing games" thing, it turned out the console was weaker than the PS4 and then they proceeded in having a decade of arguably the best exclusives being on PlayStation and not on Xbox. That last point (exclusives) is the general perspective I see among friends, and this even grew into this generation, where Indy is arguably the first big big hitter (Starfield didn't move as many needles as needed), and only in 2025 lineup (as Matty enumerated) - well over 4 years into the generation - we see a volume of potentially good exclusives. By this point, we've not seen people switching from PlayStation to Xbox, and younger people don't seem to care for consoles anyway. So, you could say the "traditional" console war (as in fighting for exclusives to drive sales of your platform) is, in practice, lost at this point: people are not coming over to the console and making games exclusive would mean just not selling enough volume to survive. On the flipside, I never had an Xbox console, as I am mostly on PC for my entire life of 40y, but ever since GamePass came to PC some years back I've been subscribed on and off - that made it possible for me to be an Xbox costumer where I "couldn't" before. I understand their reasoning for trying to expand their Xbox costumers into different kinds of people (like me and others) and not just the traditional console owner. That being said, it's not like they will stop making the consoles: going wide means they keep that and expand to "every device is an Xbox", imho, and it's not like designing the hardware of the console is such a burden - as they keep getting more PC-like. Happy holidays to everyone.

Cami Black

Blood for the blood god

Cami Black

I think Cog may actually like dragon age , I had fun with it Have a good holidays dudes

Reuben Barrett

Only way the next console works is if its a dirt cheap cloud console. Little modem type console controller. Thats it.

Bartevious

That first three minutes of the show is fucking hilarious

Beaver diva

Alright calm down

Nergal131

What do you mean "I don't know what to do with this information"? It's just a name like any other?

Beaver diva

So I just found out Cogs name is Barry lol. I don't know what to do with that information. Thank you for the year in my ear guys. See y'all next time

OrochiNewsTeam

You not doing the math, health is more important than anything. Without health nothing else matter. Stand down, get well. Happy Holidays.

Frank G.

Lmfao

pudge

Enjoy yall holiday guys, yall deserve the break

Matt H

Completely fair! For whatever reason the nonsense is my fav part of Sacred and some weeks it’s the only part i listen to haha

Yo mamas so fat shes DEAD!!!!

I like it SS has front loaded nonsense for half a decade personally I appreciate the difference.

The Devmeister

Matty = Throat GOAT 🐐

Steve

Cog is right. There is a chance the next console does not make it past R&D. They always have the option to not. They need to fully commit to this multi platform model and rip the bandaid.

Matt H

Love Matty and Cog and mean no disrespect but the Health is Wealth segment at the beginning of the show is starting to become a bit of a slog. Not in terms of content or anything, love the attitude and everything about it but I think I’d prefer it a bit deeper into the show? It’s just a long segment to have front loaded. Maybe at the end to cap things off on a positive note? Ultimately up to y’all and will still listen regardless!!

Andre Ordonez

Great show loved the Bromance at the end between cog and Matty! Long live the dukes!

Zachary

Cog is in complete denial lol. Can’t wait to play gears on ps5 pro

drew

I hope your correct...

Big Daddy Took Me Deep And I Don’t Mean To Rapture

My word for the cumming year is "bricked".

Michael Mashpotato

My health is wealth journey has nose dived. We had our son in late September and since then I’ve been slacking. But it has been totally worth it because I enjoy the time spent with my family. I also exercise in my basement and the radon is high down there. I closed the windows for the winter and the radon went from 2 to now 25. I just had a mitigation system put down there and awaiting the new test results. Hopefully the radon is under control now and i can go back to exercising 5 days a week.

Robbie Agnew

Heretic! 😫😆

drew

Not to be a Dick, but I have been hearing that since 2016.. We will see!!

Mike

Go birds!

Alex Eddy

With how very little market share they have even with this new "This is an xbox" push i fear xbox will just wither away, and microsoft games publishing will remain.