Jerrett Calloway (Blade206), Charles King (DCI), and Wynton Harris (Worsecase) come together once again to bring you the best infotainment on the net. The SYGU crew gives you the news and honest opinions about the video game industry and culture while bringing the fun back to gaming. Listen and Laugh!
In this episode we talked about the following:
- 2k13 Shamefulness
- Payday The Heist 2
- God Of War impressions
- Pax East
- New Xbox Rumors
- Wii U still not understood by consumers
- God of War trophy patch “Bros Before Hoes”
- As always we have a step ya game up and much more
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
While many are fans of the Honkai Star Rail story so far, The Nerd Stash believes that the deaths of Robin and Firefly no longer carry much weight.
finally hurrray
Awww yeah
Seriously, guys. You need to do this podcast more frequently.
good show. my sister bought the Wii U. she packed the Wii U back up into it's box after watching PS4 video. she thought the Wii U was next gen until that video. the Wii U is not understood by alot of customers. i barely see comercial about the Wii U or what it can do. i can not wait to see what else the ps4 has in store. i want to see what the Xbox 720 has this gen also..