Xbox Bethesda Direct | Xbox Layoffs | Future of Halo | Scalebound & Gears Collection - XB2 251

Thanks to HelloFresh for sponsoring today's podcast! Go to hellofresh.com/xboxtwo22 and use code xboxtwo22 for TWENTY TWO free meals plus free shipping! Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Getting Ready to GO LIVE 00:06:31 - Intro and Housekeeping 00:19:10 - Superchats! Starfield updates, optimism, etc. 00:46:28 - GEARS COLLECTION?! Starfield SUPERBOWL AD? 01:08:25 - What we've been playing this week? 01:22:35 - Forspoken reviews where? Fallout 5 when? 01:31:30 - Xbox layoffs. 343i mismanagement. 02:12:50 - Superchats. Marvel Avengers dead. 02:33:34 - Everwild development going well? Scalebound coming back? 03:11:00 - Q&A!

There are good peace time leaders and good wartime leaders. Phil was the right choice in turning Xbox around. Maybe he isn't the right choice for getting all these developers in line and producing.

1:56:38 PREACH RAND. This is why you're the GOAT Xbox content creator. You clearly love Phil and you're close with him but still have the integrity to call it like it is and critisize Phil as well. You are THE Xbox content creator MS should really listen to, not the corporate bootlicker yes men out there. They were the ones defending Bonnie/Phil etc and look what that led to. Maybe with better leadership these layoffs could have been prevented and Halo would be in a better state.

Minecraft legend is going to be HUGE. Jez, you were absolutely correct about the 15M unique players. It took me 45 seconds to look it up and fact-check you ;)

Rand just cause Xbox has good brand awareness in the US doesn't mean everyone knows about starfield, so a super bowl ad with the new release date would be awesome.

Every time I fall asleep and wake up, this is playing

It truly feels like since I left twitter to recover Ms/Xbox has been cursed with Bad news 💀 I have a lot to say and probably what most folks wont like to hear...Just like in 2022 I had people like Klobrille come @ me for asking or demanding for lack of info on Xbox games or Wait till next yr mantra for xbox fans...Oh boy I was right.

If what Jez has been told is true. That Starfield is playable and they're just polishing. Which I take to mean optimising and bug fixing. If it launches polished. They should be applauded and praised for delaying the game. I find it ridiculous that so many games launch now, without that polish phase. They launch the game and then they add the polish. Games shouldn't be getting performance modes, 40hz modes, major bug fixes etc added six months after launch. They should be launching feature finished, even if that means launching later. The rush to market is absolutely insane in this industry. The industry is built on a fanbase with the emotional control of a toddler. So many people rush out to pay $70 for an unfinished product. Anyone with any sense, waits six months, see's if the game gets completed to an acceptable level and then buys a polished game at a cheaper rate. It's entirely the fanbases fault that the industry runs this way. If people could stop living with a childish sense of FOMO and only spend money on finished quality products at a reasonable price, games would be cheaper and they'd launch complete. The masses accept the current state of the game industry everytime they pre-order something. You wouldn't pre-order a couch if the couch company had a history of shipping broken, uncomfy couches and then fixed them six months later. It's total lunacy.

I want gears of war collection with amazing graphics like gears 5

that beat at the start is sick, does annyone know the name?

41:30, that's not actually how it happened. Emails were sent out after work, and the reasonable people who have work-life balance didn't see said email. Then, when they showed up to work and couldn't access the building, they figured out they were fired. It's still a scumbag move, but I wanted to make sure your info is correct 👌

Time stamps?

The layoffs at Bethesda look like they are mostly marketing or PR type jobs which in an acquisition may have become redundant. I am not trying to minimize the personal impact in any way, just in these situations that sort of redundancy is common and layoffs a couple years in are to be expected. The looming recession just accelerates that.

So excited when I got my day 1 switch in 2017. Haven't touched it for over a year. All about my series x and steam deck.

I still blame halo infinite on 343i mainly, ms should of gave them full time staff and the managers of 343i kept pushing halo in the wrong direction. Hence bonnie ross saying "broader audience" There are even reports/articles 343i hired halo haters to try change the game, 90% of it is mangers at 343i fault and im glad bonnie ross and others left (properly saked) I do feel for the lay offs tho as alot of commited staff members sadly lost their jobs. I do think certain affinity should take over or be in charge of halo

Jez knows the Framerate of Starfield he talked with someone that plays it 👀

I thought I heard somewhere that a Superbowl ad used to be $1m per second

They never were making halo infinite campaign dlc WTF that's what I was excited about smh 🤦🏾

Happy birthday, Jez. I Can't believe I'm 10 years older than you lol. I can't wait until World of Warcraft comes to Xbox consoles. I'm thinking it will be supported by mouse and keyboard.

What's with the short episode?