Handheld gaming, scooter subscriptions, and a Techtober preview

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today on the flagship podcast of low-latency controller input: 02:12 - David Pierce talks with Tom Warren about the trend of handheld gaming devices like Valve's Steam Deck and the Logitech's G Cloud Gaming Handheld. 21:20 - David tries subscribing to a scooter rental service and starts to rethink the concept of ownership. 33:40 - David chats with Nilay Patel and Alex Cranz about the ten big tech events happening this October. Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we'd love to hear from you. We are conducting a short audience survey to help plan for our future and hear from you. To participate, head to vox.com/podsurvey, and thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of low latency controller input.
0:07.0	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am currently on a scooter riding around my neighborhood
0:11.4	trying to find a place that will sell print magazines.
0:13.8	It's a long story, but basically if you see a copy of New York magazine with a full page
0:18.9	Vergecast ad in it, send me a picture.
0:21.0	I really want to see it.
0:22.0	Anyway, we have an awesome show for you today.
0:24.1	We're going to talk to Tom Warren about the Steam Deck and the Nintendo Switch and the
0:28.4	larger tech G Cloud Gaming Handheld, which is the worst name ever, but there's all kinds
0:33.4	of interesting stuff happening with handheld gaming consoles and we're going to get into
0:36.8	all of it.
0:37.8	We're also going to talk about scooters and how the way that we ride and try and buy
0:42.0	them is changing because it is changing.
0:45.0	And we're going to talk about all of the tech events coming up in the next several weeks
0:48.7	because there are a ton of them.
0:50.7	Product announcements, trials, other product announcements.
0:52.9	It's going to be a big one.
0:54.2	We're going to figure out what's interesting and what isn't.
0:56.9	Well, that's coming up in just a second, but first I got to get this scooter home because
0:59.8	I'm down to one bar of battery and things could get bleak pretty quickly here.
1:04.0	This is the Vergecast, CNSEC.
1:10.7	Support for today's show comes from Slack.
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