Xbox Layoffs and the PlayStation Disc Disaster
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What big industry shakeups set the stage for this episode?
Things in the video game industry are not great. That's the short version. For the longer version, stick around for this episode. Welcome to TripleClick, where we bring the games to you. This week, we are talking about bad news coming out of Xbox and PlayStation. But then after the break, we're talking about three games that we each really like. So some bad news, some good games. Let's get into it.
I'm Kirk Hamilton.
I'm Maddie Myers.
And I'm Jason Schreier. Hello. Hello.
We're back.
We're back. It was summer break, but we're back and ready for school. Kirk Hamilton, how was Strong Songs live on Saturday night? I've been waiting to ask you this offline so we could ask it on the show and I could hear all about it.
Yeah, how did it go?
It was incredible. I'm still processing it. It was unbelievable. It was like the greatest night ever. It's just, I don't even know where to begin. The crowd was unreal. We packed the place. We had a ton of tickets on the live stream as well. The band was out of control. We rehearsed just so hard. That week before the show, we got a ton of stuff together. And then everyone just brought it super hard. The guest singers were incredible. It was so much fun. It was a blur. I'm really like... We had... A videographer named Kevin Jarden shot the whole thing with his insane camera and is super good at this kind of stuff. And I haven't seen his footage yet, but I've seen stills from it, and it looks unbelievable. So I haven't even dug into the recording, but we're going to have some very cool recordings from the show.
But it was just... I've never done anything like that before. It was the hardest thing I've ever done in terms of producing a show that complex and huge. And it just went off unbelievably. I mean, I want to do it again. I learned a ton. I'm ready to do it and do it even better. But also I want to sleep for a month.
So can people watch the recorded version online? Will it be online so people can check it out?
It'll be, I'm not totally sure. I mean, if you bought a ticket for the stream, you can watch an archive of that for a while. Like I'm going to go and edit it and make it sound really good. And then there'll be something somewhere. I'm not sure what Kevin and I are going to put together, but I think we're going to work together on something for it. Which is very exciting because he's really good at this stuff. And also, like I said, he got some great footage in addition to the multi-cam for the stream. So we're going to cut that all together. Very cool. I don't know if I'm going to release an entire video of the entire thing to everybody. But I'll do something. He was at rehearsal as well. We have interviews.
So we could do... It'll be kind of a documentary style interview. you know, accounting of the whole night that people will definitely be able to watch. And I think I'll put an audio version of the show or at least a lot of the show in the Strong Songs feed or at least for patrons of the show. So I'm kind of figuring that out. But yeah, people will be able to watch it. And if someone bought a ticket for the show, for the live stream, you can watch it, you know, for the next 30 days. You can't buy a ticket now and watch it though and watch the live stream. That was only before the event. So you'll just have to wait. If you missed out, You'll have to wait.
One more question and then we'll get to our show. But Kirk, what was the strongest song that you played?
It's a hard one. There were a few that were really great. A singer named Naomi LaViolette sang With or Without You with just piano. And then I wrote a four horn horn arrangement and she nailed it. It was like a real high wire act because that's a hard song. Sick. My friend Jared Flood sang Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Now you're not allowed to do multiple answers. None of this stuff. There's going to be three. I can't say one. No, because they might listen to this and I can't say one. Jared did Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. He did the Sara Bareilles arrangement of that solo piano. It was amazing. And finally, Luigi Boccia, the wonderful opera singer, a good friend of mine, sang Paranoid Android, the Radiohead song.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What big industry shakeups set the stage for this episode?
0:04–31:47
2
What happened in Xbox's mass layoff and studio divestments?
31:47–44:07
3
How will Xbox’s vendor cuts and additional 1,600 job losses affect studios and staff?
44:07–1:00:07
4
Why is Xbox refocusing on big franchises and what does that mean for Game Pass?
1:00:07–1:14:51