Episode 104 - Total Fleece Comfort

Host: Mike

Co-Hosts: Matt and Eric

Housekeeping (as by the end of show I forget) 

Free Games this week on EGS: Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride

Intro: 

Sucks to be Mike continues

MS a no show at Pax East

NEWS:
PC/Stadia/Multi-platform:

Many companies had their financial calls this week, highlights

People are spending more $$ on in game items in COD, via battle pass, then they did with loot boxes/season pass

A new CoD is coming in 2020, studio not yet announced

Ubisoft to release 5 games this year, 3 Triple A games in Q3

Google to Triple Its Canadian Workforce,  add as many as 800 employees in Montreal by 2022 (Google Stadia)

Xbox: 

“I don’t want to be in a fight over format wars with [Nintendo and Sony] while Amazon and Google are focusing on how to get gaming to 7 billion people around the world. Ultimately, that’s the goal.”

“That’s not to disrespect Nintendo and Sony, but traditional gaming companies are somewhat out of position,” says Spencer. “I guess they could try to re-create Azure, but we’ve invested tens of billions of dollars in cloud over the years.”
https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-phil-spencer-amazon-google-sony-nintendo-cloud-competitors?sf117065398=1

Nintendo: 

Coronavirus impacts Nintendo
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21126013/nintendo-switch-delays-production-coronavirus

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