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Is 2024 The Year AAA Console Exclusives Die? - Beyond 848

Beyond

IGN

Entertainment News, News, Video Games, Leisure

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Once upon a time, video game consoles were defined by their exclusive game lineups… these days, that seems like less of a sure thing, and with the rising cost of game development, it’s not hard to see why. Between a simultaneous PC release making Helldivers 2 PlayStation’s fastest-selling game ever, to Square-Enix aggressively exploring a multi-platform strategy, to Xbox Game Studios games like Sea of Thieves topping PS5 sales charts, it sure looks like more publishers are ditching the idea of keeping their games on just one platform or device. On a semi-related note, back in our day, video game controllers were small enough for little kids to play them, and now they’re too darn big! But really, maybe Nintendo’s on to something by offering teeny-tiny Joycon, but also a Switch Pro Controller. Meanwhile, the DualSense is practically twice the size of the first three generations of DualShock controllers, could there be a market for a smaller controller? Animal Well is, well, a game about animals at the bottom of a well, and that’s all well and good. Little Kitty Big City is the latest adorable indie game that has entirely too much NPC dialogue for its own good, and if you don’t mind reading the Elden Ring manga is easily the funniest interpretation of a FromSoft game this side of Prepare To Try. Podcast Beyond this week is Max Scoville, Brian Altano, Jada Griffin, and Akeem Lawanson. EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/pobeyond Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Scoville and I'm joined today by my esteemed colleagues once more, Jada Griffin, Brian

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Altono, and Akema Wantsen. Hello everybody, Beyond.

0:52.0

Happy new fiscal quarter or whatever it is, everyone, I think.

0:57.2

And about a fiscal quarter to you as well,

0:59.3

so all of you go buy a new game.

1:01.9

Thank you, Brian, the corporate man.

1:04.0

We put our shoes under the money tree last night

1:08.0

and hoped for a great fiscal quarter for PlayStation.

1:10.0

I don't know what you're supposed to do.

1:11.0

I wanted a whole fiscal dollar, I don't know about you but I like that's one thing it's like growing up

1:17.0

But like I love to read the video game magazines because they have stuff about video games in though is so cool and now it's like we talk about like earnings calls and there's

1:24.5

that's definitely that's tangentially related that's like where I don't know like if you like to eat

1:31.2

hot dogs do you really like to know how the business at the hot dog factory is going?

1:34.8

I mean, there's knowing how the sausage is made.

1:37.0

No, that's, it's that shot, was that like viral shot of like the McNuggets get in?

1:42.3

And it's just like this pink slurry that they just pushed into like just like this vata pink slime. Yeah, that's what the physical stuff feels like and then a bunch of information and news and leaks and like things come out of it like someone will get on the call and be like and next year our investors will be happy to know that we're putting out a brand new grand theft auto and everyone was like oh shit they said it they said the thing they did it that's like if you if you hid the happy meal toys in the in the pink sludge that you got to like root through with your bare hands anyway off to a great start doing real well. We're going to be talking about that

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