#175 | Beware Evil Villain Xbox... - Four Bethesda Studios SHUT DOWN!

Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Hobbies, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 189 minutes

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Summary

A nightmare year for Xbox continues. The latest chapter in this story is Xbox's shuttering of four Bethesda studios in Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, Roundhouse Studios, and Alpha Dog Games. The message is clear that the experimenting days of Xbox are done as the strategy deployed by its leaders continues to fail. The focus is Call Of Duty, Fallout, DOOM, and other high profile titles while the future of surrounding creative studios like Obsidian, Compulsion, Ninja Theory, and others have uncertainty beginning to cloud them. It serves as yet another powder keg moment for the brand where fan patience has run out. Is it time for the Phil Spencer era to end? How is Hi Fi Rush considered a hit yet its studio is shutdown? Why is the leash so short for teams like Arkane Austin while 343 and The Initiative can afford to waste precious resources? Is it even possible for Xbox to restore the faith at this point? You have many questions, so do we, and one thing is for sure: Xbox is still finding out the answers to all of them. Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. Timestamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:03:47 - What We’re Playing 0:32:09 - Xbox shuts down four Bethesda Studios 2:40:49 - Game Pass Pick of the Week 2:43:03 - Looking ahead to the Xbox Showcase Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The So, Salutations everybody is Maddie here today and welcome to episode 175 of
0:38.4	Defining Duke a shameful Xbox Oh man are we feeling it today?
0:44.7	As always, I'm joined by my lovely co-host Lord Cognito.
0:49.6	Great shirt choice this week.
0:51.4	How are you doing?
0:52.9	Not good.
0:54.8	Not good.
0:55.3	It's been a rough week on multiple levels.
0:59.4	But obviously gaming, we're gonna discuss, you know, personal.
1:04.4	I just been a bit tired.
1:06.2	It's running around a lot of family stuff and then,
1:10.2	sadly, you know, someone on my mom's side on husband passed.
1:15.0	So, yeah, it's just kind of being a support structure for the family and usually
1:19.3	when there's any type of crisis, you know, I've called on and, you know, what we need to do, let's make arrangements, that kind of energy.
1:25.2	So I've been kind of in and out of social media because I just haven't been out at time and gaming
1:29.8	that little lot of gaming this week because I just want to make sure you got to make sure mama cog is good.
1:33.4	You know she's the foundation.
1:35.4	That's the priority.
1:36.4	Yeah, but slowly getting back into it and getting things settled.
1:40.1	But yeah, we got things to talk about it seems as I came back last night but we summoned
1:46.7	a good friend man we have we have put down the summon sign and loading in is Brad Ellis of our show
1:54.7	Summon sign Brad how are you sir good to have you here I'm pretty good I'm more so
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