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The Jeff Gerstmann Show - A Podcast About Video Games

088: Oh, Also, I’m Somehow Mad About Minecraft

The Jeff Gerstmann Show - A Podcast About Video Games

Jeff Gerstmann

Technology, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 174 minutes

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Summary

The Xbox business update gets scheduled for later this week, so let’s talk about the few new developments in that whole thing that have happened over the last week. We’ll also cover the latest Switch 2 reports about backwards compatibility and custom hardware, Disney’s Fortnite-fueled metaverse, Helldivers 2, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, and… at the end Jeff gets mad about Minecraft.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Oh, Hey, what's happening everybody?

0:23.4

Welcome to the program. You are listening to the

0:38.0

Jeff Gerstman Show. And today is February 13th. I'm your host for this week's installment of the show.

0:47.0

My name is Jeff Gerstman. I'm here to host this time around. Thanks for having me.

0:53.0

It's great to be here.

0:54.0

We've got some video games to discuss,

0:58.0

some video game, some happenings.

1:01.0

Some happenings in the video game world.

1:04.0

It's been a weird, there's a weird cloud hanging over,

1:08.0

there's a weird X Cloud hanging over

1:12.0

video games right now, over the last week. It's been this really weird, the vibes are off, if you will.

1:22.3

If you will. As everyone tries to kind of dissect and figure out what the

1:29.5

heck is going on with all of the Microsoft stuff and the Xbox multi platform not a ton of movement on that front we'll get into that when we get into the news as to kind of the the couple of

1:41.4

things that have happened and things that will be happening in the

1:45.2

relatively near future here. But it's been a weird, it's been weird. I don't know.

1:56.4

Less weird or the game. So I don't know foam stars.

2:01.4

The foam stars is kind of maybe a weird game I've been playing a little bit of more

2:07.2

foam stars here and there it's I don't know how much more foam stars I'm going to actually play though. It's fine. It's a good little diversion, I guess is what I would say, but I don't, it's not the sort of thing. It's hard to envision anyone sticking with

2:25.0

Foam Stars long term, you know, even if they added a bunch of modes and

2:28.8

characters and like if they added more to the framework that they have created,

2:34.0

it's hard for me to see a scenario where foam stars really

2:39.2

really takes off.

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