381: Playstation 5 Price Hikes And Xbox’s Partner Preview

About this episode

The episode discusses the recent price hike of the Playstation 5 and reactions to Xbox's Partner Preview, along with various gaming news updates.

This week we talk about Playstation 5’s price hike, Xbox’s Partner Preview reaction, Marathon reviews finally hit, Battlefield Hardline shutting down, Epic’s layoffs and much more. Click this link for my socials, all of my other content and ways to support: https://linktr.ee/baundiesel 📋Questions, Topics & Feedback: https://forms.gle/DsgpqMAzeLdPhAY99 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:26 Playstation 5 Price Hike 00:28:17 Xbox’s Partner Preview 00:42:09 Marathon Reviews 00:46:40 Battlefield Hardline 00:49:45 Epic Layoffs 00:51:48 Dark Outlaw Games 00:57:09 This Is NOT An Xbox 01:03:02 Metacritic’s Top Publishers 01:05:59 Modern Warfare’s Revival 01:07:42 OpenAI Shutters Sora 01:10:04 Star Fox In Mario Galaxy 01:11:25 Updates & Outro

People in this episode

Host: baundiesel

Topics covered

• Playstation 5 price hike
• Xbox Partner Preview
• Marathon reviews
• Battlefield Hardline shutdown
• Epic layoffs

Keywords

• Playstation 5
• Xbox
• Marathon
• Battlefield Hardline
• Epic layoffs
• gaming news
• video game industry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Xbox, Epic

Products: Playstation 5

Books & works: Marathon, Battlefield Hardline

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