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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

Hobbies, Leisure, Video Games

4.9947 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 205 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

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1:30.3

Okay. The The Salutation, everybody, it is Maddie here today.

1:53.9

And welcome to episode 242 of Defining Duke at Xbox podcast.

2:00.0

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

2:05.2

how are you doing today, good, sir? My fellow ally, I'm doing good. I'm doing good. We talked

2:09.6

before, man. It's probably the busiest I've been in like, I can't remember. Like, it almost

2:15.0

feels like pre-E3, how busy I am. Pre-game fest kind of thing. It's just been like every day. 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. 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 on my DMs and they were like almost a month old. And I went, oh, man, look at all these people that talk about I didn't say anything. So I was like going through them live by line like yo what's up what's up it's one of them

2:52.4

Jets I was like damn I'm really in the mix right now but yeah man a lot of stuff going on a lot of

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