78: The State of Nintendo and Games Media ft. Gene Park
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
4.7 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Hi and welcome to another special episode of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today, we are joined by another amazing guest - Gene Park. Gene is the games writer for The Washington Post and he has so much knowledge about the state of video game journalism and what the future will look like for games media. Gene also has a ridiculous amount of access, probably more than most game journalists to the inner workings of Nintendo so he shares some stories about what it's been like interviewing Nintendo developers and getting early access to the biggest Nintendo games. Gene is an incredible person who has shared so much about himself. We're huge fans of him and we hope you are too. Also in this episode, we finished Final Fantasy 16 and share our final thoughts on the ending, don't worry, no spoilers. We also dig into Nintendo's recent financials and share some light thoughts on the Pokemon Showcase. We wrap it all up with questions from our incredible Patreon community. Lots of good stuff coming up!
0:00 - Welcome Gene Park
12:12 - Gene Park shares what it's like working with Nintendo and the state of games media
1:04:47 - Games we are playing (Final Fantasy 16, Pikmin 4, Hong Kong Massacre, Venba, Diablo IV)
1:32:01 - News news news (Pokemon Showcase, Nintendo financials)
1:46:24 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we have another very special guest joining us. |
| 0:12.6 | Gene Park is the video game writer for Washington Post, such a reputable paper, |
| 0:19.9 | and he's going to talk to us about what it's like to cover video games and Nintendo at the Washington Post. |
| 0:25.6 | This is such an incredible conversation that we had with Gene. |
| 0:28.4 | He recently had what I would say is the essential coverage of Tears of the Kingdom and really got to spend some time with those developers. |
| 0:35.5 | It's fun to dig into him of like, |
| 0:41.4 | what is it like trying to get to the soul of Nintendo, |
| 0:44.2 | that soul that they rarely want to show the world? |
| 0:45.7 | He's digging it out. |
| 0:46.7 | He is. |
| 0:51.5 | He's such a wonderful writer and has such a passion for the games industry. |
| 0:53.4 | But he's also in a really interesting place because the Washington Post, like they cover a lot of real things, you know, like politics and business |
| 1:02.7 | and government and boring things, but like life things that people care about. So he has to |
| 1:09.3 | really navigate those challenges to bring that legitimacy |
| 1:13.4 | to video games. He's always trying to explain to his editors, you know, like why this is an |
| 1:18.8 | important thing, why Tears of the Kingdom is an important cultural moment. So it was such a great |
| 1:24.8 | and interesting conversation. We're such huge fans of Jane and we're so excited to have him on the podcast today. |
| 1:31.0 | Exactly. |
| 1:32.4 | Our guest run continues. |
| 1:37.0 | Yes. |
| 1:37.8 | Three in a row. |
| 1:38.8 | Streak of three in a row. |
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