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Podquisition 445: May Be Nice

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Jimquisition

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4.6980 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Our position is now in question. Games we played this week include: Everybody 1-2-Switch (1:05) NieR:Automata (24:10) Playdate (36:35) The Last Hope (54:45) --- News things talked about in this episode: So many things have leaked because of poor redaction by FTC (1:04:55) https://www.eurogamer.net/sony-court-documents-removed-after-redacted-details-spotted Microsoft wanted to buy Square Enix in 2019 (1:01:05) https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-considered-square-enix-buyout-court-documents-reveal Microsoft’s lawyer keeps saying unannounced things as though they’re public knowledge (1:04:07) https://www.theverge.com/23768244/ftc-microsoft-activision-blizzard-case-news-announcements https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-expected-to-release-a-playstation-5-slim-later-this-year-priced-39999-microsoft-says Satya Nadella claims he doesn’t like console exclusives (1:06:50) https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-ceo-if-it-were-up-to-me-id-get-rid-of-exclusives Ubisoft announces its first blockchain game (1:09:05) https://www.kotaku.com.au/2023/06/ubisoft-blockchain-champions-tactics-grimoria-chronicles/ Niantic lays off 230 people and cancels projects after successfully alienating Pokémon Go fans (1:10:37) https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/niantic-layoffs-pokemon-go-shutting-down-games-1235658759/ --- Buy official Jimquisition merchandise from the Jimporium at thejimporium.com Find Laura at LauraKBuzz on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. All her content goes on LauraKBuzz.com, and you can catch Access-Ability on YouTube every Friday. Follow Conrad at ConradZimmerman on Twitter and check out his Patreon. You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at mercenarycreative.com.

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, hey, time to put you middle to the test now.

0:04.4

Oh, baa, baa, baa,

0:06.8

hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now.

0:11.0

Uh-huh, uh-huh. now. So I know we don't usually start by jumping like right into a video game

0:35.6

but I have to jump right into a video game this week and I hope you'll forgive me for that

0:41.7

Yeah you carry on I'm just on my play date so you you get on with it.

0:48.0

Oh yeah you're on your play date it must be nice.

0:50.0

I tell you what it isn't really carry on yeah well believe we'll leave you do we'll come

0:59.2

back to you in your play date in a minute I guess then for Stephanie's playdate

1:02.2

corner or whatever. I have played a Nintendo

1:07.0

published first-party Nintendo Switch game this week.

1:10.0

Oh everybody one-two switch? Yeah I played everybody one, two switch? Yeah, I played everybody one, two switch.

1:15.0

Uh, which, reminder for anyone listening who doesn't know the history of this game.

1:20.0

The summer of last year, there was a story on FanBite about a sequel to 1-2 Switch in development called

1:27.1

Everybody 1-2 Switch. Oh and real quick, pour one out for all of the fan-bite writers who bit it in the last few weeks.

1:34.4

This story, summer last year, fucking absolutely nailed some shit, great work from I think it was

1:39.2

Imran Khan over there that did this.

1:41.0

Yep. But the story was, hey, there's a one two switch sequel in the works, but they've been

1:46.9

testing it with focus testers and the game is like really fucking shit and Nintendo did not know internally what to do with it.

1:56.9

The report was it was meant to come out in early 2022 and by mid-2020-22 they were still going we don't know what to do with it and pushed it back another year.

2:05.0

The leak was very accurate. It talked about like the host of it being a bi-peable horseman wearing a rubber horse mask.

2:12.0

Apparently he's a horse because horse sounds kind of like the word host in lots of different languages.

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