#265 | These Xbox Stats Are BRUTAL...

Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Hobbies, Video Games, Leisure

4.8 • 972 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 211 minutes

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Summary

Well, we've seen our fair share of Xbox earnings reports. As expected, there's a lot of negative discourse around it, but this time there are some more troubling facts resting within these underlying numbers. As we've seen Xbox's hardware has been down for almost two years now. That continues in this quarter, so it is not much of a shocker by this point. That is if you only consider the console and not the recently released Xbox Ally. When it comes to gaming revenue as well as content and services, they're down. This is significant because this is all based on the holiday window where we usually see spending go up. In a window where they had the likes of Call Of Duty, which became the number one selling game of the month in December, they still ended up with losses. The likes of Outer Worlds 2, Keeper, or Ninja Gaiden 4 couldn't do enough, nor should they be fully expected to make up that sort of difference. The sum of it all is despite this being one of Xbox's busier holidays, they couldn't escape a loss and that comes shortly after a Game Pass price hike. Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:05:04 - Snowy Dukes0:11:48 - Our workflow0:19:03 - A second Xbox Developer Direct in 2026?0:26:37 - Forza Horizon 6’s pricey premium upgrade0:31:33 - State Of Decay 3 has a pulse0:39:00 - The Coalition opens up on Gears Of War: E-Day0:45:14 - Achievement overhaul inbound?0:50:53 - Xbox Q2 earnings are in1:04:48 - PS6 after 2028?1:18:45 - State Of Play and Nintendo Direct in February?1:22:57 - Beyond Good & Evil 2 has survived the Ubisoft purge1:30:26 - Indie publishers should be avoided1:42:37 - Emberville gets a release window1:45:16 - BioWare is quietly hiring for Mass Effect1:46:34 - Dragon Ball Age 1000 Announced1:56:13 - Resident Evil Requiem will not be open world2:01:17 - Code Veronica Remake is targeting H1 20272:03:31 - What We’re Playing2:50:50 - Xbox realizes the most obvious thing ever3:05:22 - Brian Fargo opens up on Clockwork Revolution 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. It is Maddie here today and welcome to episode 265 of Defining Duke and Xbox podcast.
0:40.7	Today I'm joined by the most patient man on the planet.
0:44.3	I see the shirt you're wearing.
0:45.7	You've waited a long time for this moment.
0:48.9	And now you get to play out on Xbox, Lord Cognito.
0:52.0	How are you doing today, good sir?
0:53.5	I'm doing better. I'm doing better. Shout out. Thank you for the shirt. Shout out. This was in the Square Enix Cafe in Kyoto, which was awesome. You know, I saw the August show. I was like, I got to have it. Of course. But I'm hanging in, brother. I mean, this has been a tough recovery for me. I'm not even going to lie to you much longer than I expected, but I just might as well get straight to the health as well stuff for me. So we had our abscess. We had our biopsy. We went back for post-op analysis. We are cancer-free initially. So that is good news, right?
1:29.0	So I'm like, all right, back to the gym, right?
1:32.1	I'm ready because I'm feeling spry.
1:34.2	He's like, nope, we catch you open.
1:36.5	It's like a wound.
1:37.4	He was like, you still got another week before you could go back.
1:41.2	And I'm like, ah.
1:42.9	So I'm like, all right.
2:51.0	So what about like full recovery where I don't have to do all this stuff that I got me doing? And for those who are familiar with the word sits baths and gauzes, I'm in that life right now. I hate it. It's very dreamy life. Yeah, I'm a baby. I'm a baby. Todd Le Cog. That's literally what I'm doing. Like three times a day. It's often. It's often. So anyway, so he was like, look, it's going to be another three weeks. Like three weeks. Oh, no. So the good news, we cancer free. The bad news is the recovery still goes on, you know, but look, it's a blessing. And then at the end of the day, stage two will be the next level of cancer screening. And then we're graduating to the colonoscopy, which is in that four to six-week period, where we could get that and get official, more official confination and preventative stuff long-. So we're on that way. So we get it. But at least I look at it this way. Monday is a target day. I get to go back. I'm dying. Two weeks without no, Jim, I feel like I lost all my gains. Your boy ain't feeling strong no more. But I'm hanging it.
2:51.8	How are you doing, man?
2:53.3	Good.
2:53.9	Yeah, like I feel like I can confidently say good.
2:58.1	I don't know.
2:59.0	I've just been reading a lot more and doing a lot of different things.
3:02.5	So I just kind of been enjoying my day to day more.
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