Xbox Games Showcase, Gears E-Day Direct Announced! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.30.26

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0:42What's up, everybody? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Monday, March 30th, 2026. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside GameSpots, Lucy James. Hi. Hey, Lucy. How are you? I'm well. How are you? I'm good. Do you want to show off your cool shirt? Yeah, I do, actually. Look at that. That is an Okami Den three wolf shirt. Apparently it was like a Comic-Con exclusive or something, but a friend of mine just found it in a cupboard. Oh, Capcom and gave it to me and it was like, you like Okami. Yeah. And now it's my partner. Isn't that a kind of understatement? Doesn't everybody like Okami?

1:15They should. If they have to. Do you love Okami? It's one of my favorites of all time. Yeah. What's new? Not much. Sad I missed you guys yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. Of course, Lucy's, you know, Ben's godmother was going to come over and babysit, but we had a trifecta of problems at the Miller household. And we're like, We're canceling date nights. Don't even worry about it. Don't worry about it. But otherwise, no, I'm not traveling for a little bit. Yeah, you've been on the road nonstop. Yeah, although I'm going to London in a couple weeks. Is that business or pleasure? I don't know if everybody knows.

1:42She's from there. You can hear her. You can't tell from the accent, but I assure you I am. I did my best today. Yeah. I didn't immediately undercut Jenna the table, but I did inside wince, and I know you would have wince too, when somehow we started talking about the Beatles. and Jen was like, we were talking about London already. That's what it was. We were talking about London. And then Jen was like, you know, the Beatles are from there. And I went, and Ben, I was like, Ben, I read them. We are the Beatles book all the time. They're the lads from Liverpool. Come on, Ben, say it, Ben. And he didn't say it.

2:11I was like, all right, you know what? We're letting mom slide today. Yeah. You know what? She's got enough going on. You don't have to bring up London and the Liverpools. Oh, thank you. I was worried about that. Thank you. We're getting coasters. Better to stop slipping. But otherwise, no, I'm good. That's good. You've been playing a bunch of games. Don't mention them. You're going to mention them on Gamescast after this. I didn't say anything. You're sticking around for Gamescast. You're just giving it out for free out there, telling everybody who'll listen what it is. No, I'm not. I'm waiting for my envelope of cash for coming in early on a Monday morning.

2:40Hey, man. You know what I mean? You just say it. We'll make sure you get a nice coupon to the taco truck across the street. We're plenty of happy. You ready to dive into some gaming news? Yeah. If you didn't know, this is kind of Funny Games Daily each and every weekday. We run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about. You need to be part of the show live. Of course, watch on Twitch, but on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games, you can super chat with your thoughts, opinions, and more. I'm going to have some, and I need you to have some too. Of course, we couldn't do this with our Patreon producers on Patreon.com slash kind of funny.

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3:56My sweet boy. He is a nice boy, isn't he? My sweet boy. I miss him. Me too. It's time for another look at the future of gaming. Xbox Game Showcase 2026 will air on Sunday, June 7th, starting at 10 a.m. Pacific. It will be followed immediately by a deep dive into the return of one of Xbox's most legendary franchises in the form of Gears of War E-Day Direct. we'll begin the day with our annual xbox game showcase including first gameplay looks and huge news on upcoming titles from our first party studios across the xbox family as well as our third party partners from around the globe from the biggest franchises to soon-to-be indie darlings immediately following showcase we'll go in even deeper on one of the games coming later this year directly from the team behind the gears franchise the coalition studio gears of war e-day direct will take players into the start of Emergence Day, offering new details, gameplay, and insights about the hugely anticipated origin story to the Gears of War saga.

4:54To help celebrate the Xbox 25th anniversary, we're excited to bring back Xbox FanFested Showcase. This year's experience will include a look back at the last 25 years alongside a forward view of what's next. Lucy, are you surprised by E-Day being the a follow-up to the showcase. Are you surprised we're getting news so early about this? We're in June. We're still here in March. Barely. Yeah. I'm surprised. I feel like this is maybe a, ooh, things have been a little bit wobbly in Xbox land. Let's just keep bringing you the good news. Let's get some good news out there, gang. We're not Project Helix we're working on.

5:35Don't worry about that. This is happening over here. When's Fable? This year. That's the surprising thing for me. Unless Fable is earlier than June No, it's supposed to be Fall I believe is what they put on it In that case, that is a surprise for me Then You know what, I'm not really a Gears of War Person I liked, what was the last one they actually made? Because that one ended on a cliffhanger I played all that one Because we did an audio logs with Rod Ferguson I played all of that one I played them all when they first came out What unanswered questions about E-Day are there that need to be answered in a brand new game rather than continuing the hugely anticipated origin story for the Gears of War saga.

6:22Chat, are we anticipating Gears of War E-Day? And don't get me wrong. I understand. I'm talking to the hardest of the hardcore, yada, yada, yada. We're hardcore, crazy gamers. I understand that Gears of War is a much bigger franchise than Fable. Then what I would say. Okay. There's a lot of yeses going on. Sure, okay. Hell yeah, yes, we are. Not at all. Nope, yeah. I mean, it's a mixed bag, but there's a lot more yeses than I thought there'd be in our chat. I know in the general populace there'd be more there. And now, you know, PlayStation owners have been able to play Gears, and so perhaps this is, that makes sense, I suppose, if you are introducing the franchise to people who perhaps have not had that console, get to experience E-Day again.

7:03That's cool. However, unfortunately for Xbox, this will be the second best thing that airs on June 7th. Oh, what's the first? The Vampire Lestat is coming back, everyone. Oh, wow. They interview the Vampire Season 3. Oh, my God. How are you going to be able to juggle both? Goodbye, Xbox. Yeah.

7:24So I'm, again, bummed out isn't the right word. I, for some reason, in this, you bring up Fable, which, of course, is one of my most anticipated games of the year now, if not most anticipated. Known British person enjoyer over here. I do enjoy a good British person. I was hung up on the belief that this would be clockwork revolution. It's time to shine. Oh, you know what? That's a one of you blade. That's another great one, but I almost feel like, I don't know these deep dives at the end. I feel like should be used more for, Hey, here's something you're not expecting. You need to know about. We need to explain the outer worlds too.

8:01Was so well done of like, here's all the intricacies going on inside of this game. You might pass by. And I feel like a clockwork absolutely has that. Even the trailer they showed last year was like, I'm excited for that game. Don't get me wrong. I thought that trailer was too long for that showcase. But this, like the post-show thing, is the perfect time to delve into all that. This just, of course, confirms that Clockwork Revolution not coming this year, which I think we've been able to see the writing on the wall for the way they've talked about it and the way they haven't talked about it, more importantly.

8:27But then for you even to bring up Fable, it's like, yeah, fuck. I know we already had the Fable Direct, but again, we need people to dive in and be ready to go with Fable. But that game looks so impressive and so amazing. and I also don't fully believe it's this year. I just feel like that's the kind they got to get right. And also, as you get closer and closer to the fall, theoretically, you get closer and closer to GTA. So why even bother? Yeah, it's a weird one. But hey, I'm happy for you Gears fans. You know what? Xbox fans in general. Yeah, no, no. It's been such a weird, messy couple of years for that brand to have FanFest, to have the 25th anniversary stuff.

9:02Did you see the clothes they dropped today? There's a new merch line of Xbox stuff to celebrate the anniversary. Is it on the Xbox Gear store? Because that's where I'm going to right away. Oh, my God. Yeah. I go there, and then they want me to log in because it's not up. It's not, you know what I mean? Come on, Xbox. Just show the goddamn thing. Come on. Where'd you see it? Was it on the wire? GameSpot Slack. Oh, well, open up the Slack. And then send it over to Barrett Slack. Lord Almighty. Probably Wario tweeted out. I don't know. Okay, maybe. We'll get back to it then. Let me bring in some Super Chats, okay?

9:34Of course, be part of the show. Super chat. YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. Just like Jameson did. Jameson writes in and says, I'm looking forward to E days personally, but I actually really liked the story they were building with Kate in four slash five. I really, I still want six eventually. And that's the other thing here where again, as an outsider, where I feel like I've played many years and they all run together and I don't think anything of them other than they all roadie run together. Yeah. Then me just playing them with Levi Buchanan or whatever back in the IGN days. but like going back also seems like a weird choice of just like hey remember berries remember dom remember all the fun you had with them we understand the new class isn't getting everybody excited so let's go back to what we know works yeah that's i mean that's modern media though true true true true true no one can have a new idea we got to go back and exactly yeah nobody's gonna nobody's gonna throw money behind a new idea uh aaron lime says i'm excited for the third party reveals at xbox but not really interested in first party wasn't a fan of the last gears and Fable's just not my thing.

10:32And Halo's the only campaign that... And Halo's only the campaign and allegedly has AI. I hadn't heard the AI complaints. I haven't heard the AI stuff yet. But I did play some of... What are they calling it? It's Halo campaign evolved. Campaign evolved. I did play some of it and it's like, I don't know. That's another outrageous one. They talked about that and then it's just been quiet. Like, what the hell's going on with that? Where's that one? That doesn't seem like that should take so long. Sky Super Chats says, this is just for Lucy mentioning the vampire Lissette. There you go. CJ says will we finally see blade do you think we see blade at this showcase god I hope so in any substantial way I think you could see it but I think it'll be another very fast teaser this one will actually have like it was Game Awards 23 yeah correct yeah thanks thanks Barry uh yeah it was Game Awards 23 when they revealed it oh yeah god any I mean anything from Arcade I am just ravenous for even though my love of Marvel has softened.

11:30I think, you know... Oh, man. Please. I just want something new. Doomsday will bring you back. Will it? Honestly, you said Doomsday will bring you back and I had to be like, wait, what's Doomsday? God, it's crazy it's been this long. I know. And this is all we have. But they are just... Like, I am such a huge Arcane fan. Yeah, for sure. I'm still not over what Xbox did to Arcane Austin with Redfall and then shutting them down. I still want my Dishonored 3. I know. One day. One day. Maybe. What else does Xbox have in terms of first party studios that they could possibly tap into? Obviously Forza.

12:11Forza will probably have a new trailer. Isn't Forza Horizon May? I think Forza Horizon 6 is May. May 19th. Maybe DLC. Forza is like a September thing. But I'm an idiot. I don't drive. So do you know driving these games? I walk everywhere. Forza Horizon, I can't wait for. But yeah, I imagine you get an updated thing. They got a million games. That's not the thing. I think that showcase they'll build will be amazing and be chock full of awesome stuff. I just worry about where Blade's actually at. Knowing nothing. I just worry that, you know, it's been so quiet. And again, in a year, just let him cook.

12:50Yeah. I also feel like you're in a year so crowded that like do you want to show this instead of waiting for next year but then again what's the new cycle for marketing because I would hope that Blade's a next year game if not the year after that right but then you're looking at when we start thinking about 2027 I would say Clockwork Revolution is going to be there you got Blade I assume hopefully is going to be there you start filling it in on where you're going with it I don't know if you want to start putting that in here where the fuck stayed at AK3 like there's a lot of stuff going on out there but really just don't fuck up fable fable looks too good to be true what uh 25th anniversary i like that they're bringing back a fan fest i like that they're going to celebrate that i hope they have cool announcements there uh you know i would say they're in a weird spot with that one of doing it around this day i think i would have loved a psx it's a standalone thing it's celebrating the 25th and during that you show the new xbox that you keep talking about this project helix here's what the form factor is here's a whole bunch of stuff here's the paying it forward to the fans the same way psx did yeah i wonder here if you're putting those kind of announcements in the actual showcase obviously then doubling back to them for people being in the crowd yeah i mean that's the thing it's like surely it would be too soon to have anything to show of helix substantially substantially sure the hope would be maybe be just the form is something i made in canva exactly exactly exactly what you'd be looking for but i don't know i doubt it but again back to what we were talking about earlier like i think so much of it right now is trying to change the tune well all right cool phil's gone yeah it was it was messy with sarah but asha is here this is the thing we're still committed to games we're bringing xbox back let's talk about the showcase now let's talk about this let's double down on the amazing games we do have with uh fable coming theoretically this year with uh forza horizon 6 coming in may i'm forgetting one that they have somewhere in between those that i think they have a date on check keep me honest there's a lot to love here yeah but it is just like the gears one is one where i go that's and i i understand that every showcase not every announcement not every direct can be for me yeah but at the same time i'm gonna totally tune out during that i'm not a gears person yeah but the thing is is if you are to that point it's the 25th anniversary they were gonna either go with a halo or gears and maybe halo is just absolutely not there yet i think halo is absolutely not there because i think halo would have been the obvious slam dunk to do something with there to have something exciting for.

15:09I mean, third party. Third party will show up for sure. Everything will be Xbox Play Anywhere, Xbox Game Pass. That'll be super exciting for the ROG ally owners like me. Like Loose. I love my ROG ally. Damn right you do. Shadow Slay and Super Chats, as much as this is going to be the year of Xbox, Clockwork and Blade are for sure going to be Helix projects. You think they're going to wait that long? Now granted, backwards compatibility, etc. etc but like i don't think you can wait that long for clockwork well clockwork you can wait on blade i haven't at least all been gestating too long it's also like let's get them going i feel like you're already seeing diminishing returns with marvel as an ip yeah and you have been for the last few years longer you distance yourself from everything with end game and you know when peak peak marvel even sort of the avengers sorry to bring it up oh no you can make fun of avengers that's fine um but you know i'm not i'm not standing in the way of bullets for avengers i enjoyed that game and i think that's a fine thing to say not you know they fucked that up but i don't know if yeah the only thing yeah come on okay uh let's get some more uh steak stick says uh the gears games are some of the best co-op experience i've ever played played the whole series with my wife last year and she's a super fan now so they are still making these fans out there.

16:27Immersion Fragrances says, this year is a celebration of the last 25 years with Forza, Halo, Gears, Fable. Next year will be the new IP for the next 25. Exciting to think about, but as we continue to see all these companies just double down on nostalgia, I doubt it, but I'd like to see that. I'd like to believe that. Sasquatch Oni says, most excited for the potential of OG Gears of War tone returning. And again, that would be the reach, I think, here with E-Day of going back to the team you know, being able to make it a little bit more like like I said the member berries. Cliff's not involved is he?

17:00No. I think he tweeted like they've asked me for advice. Was it that? Something like that. It was something yeah I couldn't remember if it was snarky where they haven't asked me for advice or whatever but yes Cliff Blasinski has tweeted at some point or BS'd about that at some point. Gary the third super chads and says even with the deep dive Outer Worlds 2 sold less than 1 million units. New Brass wants to push sales. God of or sorry Gears of War sorry PlayStation and me. Gears of War sells would have loved to see fable slash clockwork revolution though you're not wrong but i also don't think that like i don't i don't know how much of a this is the new brass speaking it is right i think if it was we need we want to move units we want people to be excited about gears in the 25th and again we don't have that halo anchor we should have for the 25th anniversary but we do have gears you double down on that get it more mainstream etc etc but yeah you're not wrong but i doubt it was that asha came in and was like fucking get your nerdy rpg shit off the screen we're not doing that great impression thank you i've talked in the room talked to her several times uh onimus prime the coalition is xbox's dark horse who honestly could make something naughty dog level if they got out of the gears ip it's great but hard to make new people care a new or different ip could be huge and of course this is the back and forth with any of this where yeah okay you want established ip to make money on and you know get people into the xbox ecosystem etc etc but gears of war has had so many bites of the apple and i look at like i know i don't like gears so i'm not even remotely excited for this developer direct at the end of it but flip-flop you put out outer worlds 2 and 1 million sales whatever it is yeah one final one here that's not about the game but it's for you okay uh chris dent says ask lucy to drop her old school geordie accent oh my old school because it's been so long since i spoke in my real accent that's the thing is that my accent goes all over the place and so if you want to hear me i'm like my real accent if i'm going home which i am in a few weeks time it's going to be all this all the time yeah next episode of friends per second you're not going to understand me oh wow but then i'll refer it back immediately because i'm good well that's because you're a chameleon you can blend in uh no i just I have an anxiety disorder.

19:09That's how I try and fit in. Okay, well, that got serious. No, I'm kidding. My accent just changes all the time. I find myself really Americanized now. Sure? Yeah. You put your frozen pizzas in the freezer yet, or you still put them in the fridge? Well, no, because now I actually have space in the freezer. Yeah, blame me and Jen for that. Sorry you can't be fed and nourished during COVID. Sound of a smirk says, Greg, you could love Gears. The story is dark and super emotional. I have played Gears, to be clear. I played multiple gears with people on my own. Name three gears. Cog gear. Now, I've never connected to the story, but I appreciate that.

19:47And I do it. But I think they're more about going through and chainsawing people than I would like to. But I digress. It doesn't matter. I hope you're excited for Xbox Day. June 7th, of course, we'll be live reacting to it here. It's kind of funny. Will it be live on a delay because we send everybody to SGF? Or will it be normal and only I'm tired from going to SGF? We'll find out once we figure out what's at SGF. Story number two, but still in Xbox land, Microsoft gaming chief Asha Sharma killed. This is an Xbox campaign as it quote, didn't feel like Xbox. This is Tom Phillips at IGN. Microsoft has confirmed that its new gaming boss, Asha Sharma personally killed the company's controversial.

20:25This is an Xbox marketing campaign because ironically, it didn't feel like Xbox. The promotional slogan was announced with fanfare back in late 2024 when Microsoft tried to convinced the world that Xbox could actually refer to any object that played Xbox games. This meant your smartphone was an Xbox, your dusty old tablet was an Xbox, and even your smart TV could be an Xbox. Something that also suggested you no longer needed to buy an actual Xbox anymore. For a company that was already having issues shifting Xbox consoles, the marketing campaign felt a bit short-sighted. A view reportedly also held by numerous staff at Xbox itself, whose job it had been to try and make the Xbox Series X slash S not a flop.

21:05In recent weeks, fans have spotted This Is An Xbox marketing pages disappear from the internet, while a report has stated that the team members had been, quote-unquote, offended by it ever existing. And now, Microsoft has officially confirmed the slogan is dead, with Sharma to thank for it being finished off. Quote, Asha retired This Is An Xbox because it didn't feel like Xbox, an Xbox spokesperson told Windows Central. She is personally leading a reset of how we show up as a brand, end quote. This is an Xbox wasn't killed. It was murder. Wanted for murder, Asha. Cool. Sorry. It's a marketing thing.

21:48Fine. I understand completely where it came from. I understand the process which led to this is an Xbox campaign existing. Yeah. Yeah. I also don't feel like it really felt like Xbox It felt like a pivot Yeah It felt like a major pivot Clumsy pivot Yeah And that's what Xbox has kind of unfortunately done the last few years None of it has been elegant A lot of it has been met with pushback Obviously we've got Phil and Sarah leaving And you know Asher New Blood coming in Stuff's gonna change Yeah I think this was a no-brainer it's nice that they have something on the record about it but of course like ash's entire introductory letter was about like we need to correct the sins of the past to console and return to console so clearly this was dead in the water for them again you know you turn it back to friday's games daily with bless and i talking about all right they're raising the price of playstation exponentially 150 more for this playstation pro right and it being the idea of Like, I think I would love to see that alternate universe where Microsoft didn't get money signs in their eyes and chase AI and let Phil and the team go all in on this.

23:02Cause this is an answer to the problem we're in right now of like, cool. Tech is very fucking expensive. Your phone is an Xbox right now. Try it, jump in, play with it. But I know that like when you have a boss's boss's boss and a million shareholders who are trying to make, they don't give a shit about that. They're not going to give you the time. I think to run with that campaign and really make something of it. And Asha coming in for better or worse clearly wants to contract and go back to being, no, no, Xbox is this box. It is a console. Come get this box. And we'll see how that plays out.

23:30And that's the thing to that point about like especially phones, I think is and tablets being the key thing as part of this campaign. Because if you look within the wider context of the gaming industry is that gamers are getting older and the younger Gen Z, Gen Alpha. They are on tablets. They are playing Roblox or Minecraft or Fortnite. They are not investing. They don't have the money to invest in a console. so really this campaign was meeting those people where they are trying to find them meeting them where they are which was on phones and tablets and making a a foot in the door a gateway to get involved in the xbox ecosystem in some way if you're investing by buying game pass using xcloud and then maybe you see something that you want to play on a big tv in front of like in your living room with the you need the console for great that's a way to funnel those people in there but in doing so the messaging was not the best and it wasn't it wouldn't be clear i think like as i get older so like i have um my aunt and uncle like my uncle is really into gaming but like my aunt will message me and be like i don't know what to get him blah blah blah and she'll explain to me what it is like for her to go to a game store and not know sure what she is looking for sure and so one thing that i've tried to consciously do is put myself in the shoes of my auntie janet and to be like if i didn't know what the ins and outs if i didn't even know the difference between the x and the s how would i approach this and that is what xbox is really doing they are trying to find those people who are not as invested in the gaming ecosystem or as familiar with the language as we are and trying to get those people this is insane here's here's my take on it because you are 100 right and you go to the kids and you talk about the phones And I think where my frustration with this is that this was the softest rebrand marketing campaign, I think of all time.

25:20And that's an exaggeration, but in terms of to go find the kids and go find your aunt and go do this requires a Herculean lift of, we are rebooting Xbox. We are going on the today show. We are running NBA ads. We are doing this needs to be everywhere. And really what we saw with this was the same, I would say tried and true marketing you would see for the new console, the new video game. It was on a bus stop. Sure. What does that mean when you look at it? It was promoted on IGN and GameSpot. Sure. But you're speaking to an audience that already knew about it to some degree, maybe understood it to some degree.

25:57But to your point, like I told the story last week when my cousin page hit me up, it was like, Hey, I want to, I'm thinking about getting a console. Should I get a PlayStation or Xbox? And I was like, well, it's all about exclusives, but you could try all the Xbox stuff right now on your phone. She's like, what do you mean? I got her game pass. She popped in. She used it for a while. Right. But it was like, she had no idea that existed in like, so to talk about the complexity and the layers here, like for, this is an Xbox to have worked. It needed buy-in from the top of Microsoft that we are going all in all of our money.

26:29Let's go and really do this. And clearly this was, Hey, we've already been doing this. People like Greg have already been saying this. now we need to tell the world but with the marketing budget they had and whatever they were approved for i assume they could only take that so far rather than the giant banner ads you need flying over the golden gate bridge yeah and it's also like some deserved and but also you know you've got a question a little bit it's like complacency a little bit where it's like you are just go you are using that word xbox yeah and you are hoping and relying on the fact that people have some passing knowledge of what it is yeah but really does everyone know i don't know yeah that's a big question i think for where they're at right now right as we've talked a lot about asha coming in what's going to happen blah blah blah blah blah is it an actual college effort and the college try here if we're going to you know do this and we're going to rebring xbox to the forefront or is this what some people have talked about that i like as a horrible analogy of like she is the hospice nurse here to end life care you know what i mean and is it the death of xbox and the birth of Microsoft gaming, where it is going to be that, hey, we are getting out of consoles.

27:36That's not the future. We're still making games. We still think, but it's Microsoft gaming because yes, Xbox, no pun intended, puts you in a box. It does for what this campaign was and why it didn't work. It is hard to explain to somebody that, no, you don't need the console, but I don't even want the console. I have a play, this, that, the other phone that, you know, clouds, apps on your TV. And of course, it's not the newest TV, so you got to buy a new TV. So you don't even know it's there. I got a Just Dance app on my TV. saw that today too yeah i'm talking about when i launched obviously now you can do it yeah hell yeah nvidia what no what no no lg thank you thank you thank you thank you i'm sorry i was hung up because last night i turned on my tv to play starfield what up on my xbox what up and it was the just dance app up there and then it was nvidia geforce now that i also have as oh i didn't see nvidia but oh i haven't it's all day get out there do it uh ink goblin says one god one xbox I like it and I do think that's something we've lost in this chain let's just have one fucking thing to sell let's just sell one fucking thing not just multiple versions not the ROG and the ROGX let's just fucking sell one fucking thing but I understand we're trying to meet everyone everywhere and it's working well no it's not you know what I mean

28:56Nightlife says Cloud is going to dominate and no business decision is elegant. It's powered by money. Let's look back at Sony killing Bluepoint, one of the best studios. That's the definition of a tooth's clumsiness. Bluepoint wasn't killed. It was murdered. Yes. Nightlife, I understand you're packing everything into your membership response there, so maybe it wasn't as elegant as you wanted. But no, money is at the heart of all the decisions that we look at and go, why would you fucking, oh, you're trying to make money. It's not going to work, but I'm glad a thousand people lost their job for it.

29:26That's great. That's really good. Casper says the best thing Asha can do is make the Series S slash X cheaper. That would be a great move. That would be, yeah. I mean. Can it get you back on Costco shelves? I don't know. You know, that would be like, that would be, that would be PS4, pass in the physical copy type shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If PlayStation raises stuff by so much and then Xbox is like. That'd be awesome if Xbox just raised theirs to get PlayStation to raise theirs and then they come back down. We are wrong. Don't worry about it. and then what's this here okay uh these pitches love soda sosa sorry i have a photo of a three story building in chicago with quote this is not an xbox on the side twice it made zero sense in that context again i think of the relaunch if you were going to do this campaign to do it right it would be sarah bond on the today show on good morning america and it would be the it's not even this is an Xbox.

30:21It's Microsoft is retooling Xbox, rebooting Xbox. It would be an all in thing. The reason this fails is because clearly to the point of people being offended by it, you're half in, half out. Everything's Xbox. I don't need the console. No, no, you should still buy the Xbox. What the fuck are you talking about? Like, what are you saying right now? It doesn't make any sense to a normal person. No. I, yeah. You know what? What? Good. Good. Great. Good. Grand. It's marketing. It is marketing. We should get all we're all just rats and amaze everybody play the game eat the cheese and have some fun. We're going to move on to a company Xbox knows a lot about Bungie but not before I remind you about the kind of funny membership over on patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games Apple and Spotify.

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