206: When Everything Is an Xbox, Nothing Is an Xbox

The Nextlander Podcast

Leisure, Hobbies

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

We unfortunately have to start this week's episode with the brutal cuts at Xbox, which saw studios shuttered and projects like Everwild and Perfect Dark straight up cancelled, but also touch on Donkey Kong Bananza and the next 3D Mario game, get way deeper into Death Stranding 2, try to make sense of the increasingly fantastic casting for the new Street Fighter movie, and more.

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(00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:10) Intro
(00:01:18) Microsoft begins layoffs, cancellations, and closures
(00:39:26) SPOILERS - We'll be talking about Death Stranding 2 next, including early game story moments.
(00:40:37) First Break
(00:40:55) Assassin's Creed Shadows | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Mar 20, 2025
(00:42:37) Death Stranding 2: On The Beach | [PlayStation 5] | Jun 26, 2025
(01:36:08) Next week's Ramblecast and our favorite games
(01:37:12) Second Break
(01:37:17) News
(01:37:27) Updates to the Microsoft news
(01:41:35) Donkey Kong Bananza and the Super Mario Odyssey team
(01:47:40) The original Switch will get a price increase in Canada
(01:50:21) 2K Sports might be getting back to college basketball?
(01:54:31) The Street Fighter movie gets more casting news
(02:16:41) Emails
(02:27:35) Nextlander content updates
(02:30:05) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:30:40) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:33:10) We're heading out for vacation for a week
(02:33:45) See ya!

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Jeff Norcott and I have a twice weekly topical comedy podcast called What Most People Think.
0:05.7	If you like hearing jokes about the news, well this show does the job that panel shows used to do,
0:10.5	as myself and another guest try to make sense of the big political and cultural stories.
0:15.1	It's not an echo chamber either, as I have guests from both the left and the right.
0:19.4	From Ramesh Ranganafan to Andrew Doyle,
0:21.7	from Catherine Ryan to Simon Evans.
0:23.9	I even had David Badele once.
0:25.9	We have jokes about Labour,
0:27.4	jokes about the Tories,
0:28.6	jokes about reform.
0:29.6	We even do the occasional gag about the Lib Dems.
0:32.3	That's what most people think,
0:33.7	which you can find everywhere you get your podcasts.
0:47.3	Music which you can find everywhere you get your podcasts. Hello everybody and welcome back to another NextLander podcast and boy howdy what a news morning Brad Schumerer.
0:57.7	Oh God, putting me on the spot, huh?
0:59.8	I am.
1:00.4	I am.
1:00.7	Well, I feel like you have been head down in trying to gather the kind of debris from the
1:07.0	Microsoft layoff news.
1:10.5	And you've done it. you've done a great job.
1:12.0	Thank you for talking about it.
1:13.2	It's a lot to collate.
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