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Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

#242 | The TRUTH About The Xbox Ally Is Here...

Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Video Games, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9947 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 203 minutes

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Summary

Gamescom took place this week! On top of Opening Night Live which was home to many reveals, Xbox held their own show the day after. It's there that we finally got information on the Xbox Ally. Everything from its official release date to features, specs, capabilities, and so on. With the rumored price tag floating at $549.99 and $899.99 respectively, is this handheld doing enough to justify its enthusiast status? Despite everything being an Xbox, it seems like the Xbox Ally will only function as such if a title supports "Play Anywhere." While not a concern for future games as we've seen many releases support the future, what this means for your established Xbox library isn't great news. We parse through it all... and a lot of Lego Batman. Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:07:28 -  Health Is Wealth0:31:52 - Xbox is safe from Tyson... for now0:33:26 - Grounded 2 is outpacing the first0:38:08 - Ex-PlayStation Exec Shawn Layden on Game Pass0:57:15 - Details on the Helldivers x ODST collab1:01:21 - Rod Fergusson is the new Head of the BioShock Franchise1:08:28 - High On Life 2 is releasing February 13th, 20261:11:31 - Triangle Strategy shadow drops on Xbox1:15:35 - Mafia: The Old Country sales thus far1:17:34 - Shenmue 3 Enhanced Edition announced by ININ1:36:41 - What We’re Playing2:02:23 - Gamescom recap2:45:29 - Updates on Xbox Ally3:01:30 - PlayStation hikes console price3:08:56 - Leaving Xbox Game Pass3:10:21 - Game Pass Pick Of The Week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Thank you, everybody.

0:32.3

And is Maddie here today and welcome to episode 242 of Defining Duke at Xbox Podcast.

0:39.9

Today, I'm joined by my Xbox ally, Lord Cognito.

0:45.0

How are you doing today, good, sir?

0:46.3

My fellow ally, I'm doing good.

0:48.3

I'm doing good.

0:48.9

We talked before, man.

0:50.6

It's probably the busiest I've been in like, I can't remember. Like it almost feels like pre-3, how busy I am. Pre-game fest kind of thing. It's just been like every day. It's something, something, something. I'm going to get good busy. Can't complain. Sure. But, yeah, it's like, man, the next two weeks is something going on every single day. Yeah, it's awesome.

1:27.8

So I just been dealing with that. And apologies to the people. I think it was, you know, I knew it was bad. When I had to do like a follow up or my DMs, and they were like almost a month old. And I'm like, oh, man, look at all these people that talk to me, I didn't say anything. so I was like I was like going through them live by line like yo

1:30.2

what's up what's up? It's one of those I was like, damn, I'm really in the mix right now. But yeah, man, a lot of stuff going on, a lot of cool things. Some things are really excited for. But yeah, just grinding, brother. How are you been, man. Been doing all right. Yeah, we were talking a little bit before the show. The grind is starting to set in a little bit, just, you know, working our way through, uh, starting to finally review some things. It wasn't until we talked. I realized I hadn't reviewed anything in full since May because you've got to fix that. Your boys get nice out here, man. We're beating down doors to no reply. But what we do have are some things to talk about this week in the world of Xbox. We have the Xbox alley to go over. We have a lot of gamescom announcements to go over. Shout to Laco Batman, bro. Come on. We got to jump. We got to jump ahead. We got to it. We got to say. We got to it. We got to it. I owe you apology on that one.

2:19.0

Oh, okay.

2:20.2

I was, dude, you know what's funny? You know how red free you live in my head? I was thinking while I was preparing my protein shake for the show. I was thinking about when I brought this up, how that conversation would go. And I said, I swear to God, if he pulls the whole like, yeah, yeah, you go ahead and enjoy that.

2:36.6

I get hit with that.

2:37.8

I said, I swear to God, if he pulls the whole like, yeah,

2:35.2

yeah, you go ahead and enjoy that. If I get hit with that, I said, I might lose it on him. I got to prepare because if he says that, I'm going to be like, are you serious? So I'm so glad to see which way you're leaning right now. Okay. We're fresh here. All right. Let's go. How are you feeling?

2:50.3

Look, it's funny because I'm watching it.

2:53.2

And I'm like because I'm watching it.

2:52.8

And I'm like, ah, this. I'm literally saying, though, the I'll be showing. Ah, this is the baddie sex. He's going crazy right now. Here we go. I literally was, bro. I legit was, I was watching it by myself. And I was like, oh my God. Like when I saw the free flow, bro, I was jumping.

3:06.4

I was jumping.

3:07.3

That shit looks amazing.

3:08.4

Sorry, continue.

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