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Are Hard Drives the Next-Gen Xbox’s Latest Roadblock? – Unlocked 729

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Just as we thought things might be lining up for a next-gen Xbox launch in 2027, a new story on hard drive availability has left us wondering if that option might be slipping away. Plus: we go over the new games coming to Xbox that were announced in last week's Sony State of Play, talk through the next wave of Xbox Game Pass additions, and more! 00:00 - Intro 01:06 - Ryan's Thoughts On Reanimal 05:16 - Are Hard Drives the Next-Gen Xbox’s Latest Roadblock? 19:05 - The Biggest Xbox Games From The Sony State of Play 47:27 - Whats Headed to Xbox Game Pass 54:58 - PokemonPlanet This weeks show is hosted by Ryan McCaffrey, Miranda Sanchez, and Michael Higham. The episode is produced and edited by Nick Maillet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:06.6

Episode 729. It's February 19th, 2026 as we're releasing this episode. It's February 18th as we're

1:14.6

recording it. We always like to caveat that in case any crazy Xbox news drops between the time we

1:19.9

record and the time we publish, which seems to happen to us a lot. Anyway, I'm Ryan McCaffrey.

1:25.3

You know the faces on your screen, the voices in your ears. Miranda Sanchez, how are you? Hi, I'm good. How are you? Doing great. You sound wonderful. You sound very Miranda-E. Which is all we, that's all we want. That's all we ever want. I think I'm basically stable now, so that's good. Oh, love it. Michael Hyam, how are you, sir? I'm locked in, baby. Let's get it.

1:46.0

I love that attitude. We're just sprinting onto the field now. We're ready. It's game time. There's actually, we're just kind of have a random assortment of stuff to talk about this week. And I want to just start with a quick mention. mention. I haven't put enough time into this yet, but I just started, and it's fact

2:03.3

it's, yeah, I mean,

2:04.4

it's in square one behind me, but reanimal came out, what, late last, I think it was Friday

2:10.1

the 13th, they dropped that one, which is, as we all pretty well know, from the, the original

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