Tokyo Game Show 2025 Recap and Discussion | Official Xbox Podcast
The Official Xbox Podcast
Official Xbox Podcast
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this episode of the Official Xbox Podcast, we're in Tokyo, Japan, and Jeff is hanging out with Sarah Bond and Mena Kato to talk all things Tokyo Game Show 2025. We're recapping the show, talking about the games we're most excited about, and highlighting the exciting diversity of games from Japan, China, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and more!
00:00 Introduction
01:16 Xbox's momentum in Asia
02:18 Players reactions in Asia
03:41 Game highlights
06:02 Asian pop culture collaborations
07:17 Xbox's deepening engagement with game creators in Japan
and around Asia
07:49 Xbox's presence at TGS
08:19 Bounty of riches for Xbox fans and Game Pass subscribers
09:25 Outro
FOLLOW XBOX
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Xbox
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Xbox
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Xbox
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Games in this podcast range from E to M. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the official Xbox podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | The only podcast coming to you from inside Xbox, or in this case, Xbox Japan. |
| 0:11.0 | It is Tokyo Game Show Week. |
| 0:13.0 | And if you are just waking up in the West on the morning of September 25th, |
| 0:17.0 | you may have slept in, and you may have missed a few things. |
| 0:20.0 | So we're going to get you all caught up here. And I'm very pleased to be here recording this episode in Microsoft HQ in Tokyo and joined by a few familiar faces. Xbox president, Sarah Bonn. How are you? It's great to see you. It is great to see you too. Yeah. We see each other more in Japan and I run into you here all the time now. Every time, we're just walking down the streets of Shinjuku, and I'm like, look who it is. And Menacado, you are now the, and I want to make sure I get your title right, the managing director of all of Xbox Asia, congrats on that. Thank you. And it's been about a year since I saw you last year, you came out to us. We came out to you this year. Welcome to Tokyo. Thank you. And we saved you some energy and you can give it to a sphere on this problem. Have you noticed how much she's embraced Xbox now because she actually, her hair is green. That is awesome. Next year, you'll have a tattoo sleeve. Oh my gosh. You know, baby steps. |
| 1:11.9 | Baby steps. I like that. I really, if I had the hair to do it, I would absolutely do it. |
| 1:16.9 | We're going to get to some of the highlights from the broadcast. It's really a source subject. |
| 1:21.2 | And, you know, we had some heavy hitters that were made right here in Japan as well as across Asia. |
| 1:26.5 | And I'm someone who loves games from Japan. |
| 1:29.4 | I'm very excited. |
| 1:30.4 | I cannot wait to dive back into Dragon Quest 1 and 2 with those HD-2D remakes that were talked about yesterday. |
| 1:35.9 | I would love to ask how you would summarize Xbox's momentum in Asia with the creators of these globally beloved games. |
| 1:42.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.1 | Well, first, this is always my favorite trip of the year, |
| 1:45.8 | and Mena knows that. |
| 1:46.9 | Love, love coming to TGS. |
| 1:48.7 | We come here, we connect with a ton of developers and fans |
| 1:53.3 | here in Asia, here in Japan, and it's always a highlight. |
| 1:57.8 | And today, Asia is actually our fastest growing region in Xbox. |
| 2:02.3 | We had over 300 indie developers who we actually launched their games. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Official Xbox Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Official Xbox Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.