Switch Please - Part 3

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Squidge

Jay

The B

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Part three of the second podcast episode is here!

part one is available here

part two is available here

Show Notes

Part three of the second episode of our podcast is here.

phew! That’s three hours of audio content

SquidgyFidget starts a conversation about the Switch not having a gamer score which leads us to a discussion on Xbox Live and the Playstation Network. Then B drops a knowledge bomb about Nintendo bringing a online play to the Switch very soon.

I talk about the difficulty of being the first with some new technology, the death of the Saturn and Dreamcast; and B brings to our attention the fact that the consoles which win the wars are the ones which concede on certain aspects of their design and hardware for the mainstream, which takes us to a discussion on SegaNet.

I also link what happened in the video games crash of the 80s to what happened recently with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and how Nintendo fixed gaming back then by adding (what was effectively) a DRM chip to each cartridge for the NES.

Links

We’ve already written about some of the games we discussed, so here are some links to those posts:

• Leeds Retro Games Fair 2017
• Leeds Super Retro Games Fair 2017

External Links of Interest

• Go follow B on twitter, he’s a pretty chill dude.
• Leeds Retro Game Fair (28th Jan 2018) will we see you there?
• UK Comic-Con Cruise 2018
• Nintendo online service announcement post
• We talked about the ET Landfill story
• DropMix looks really interesting, and we can’t wait to get a DCMA takedown request from using it
• We were mentioned on an episode of the fantastic {CodingBlocks}.NET podcast

Music

Links to the music used in the podcast can be found below. Definitely check them out, because they’re amazing tracks by awesome musicians.

• Intro music is Behind the Lines by Ian Sutherland
• Outro Music is I N e e d Y o u 私の側て by G.H (removed from BandCamp)
• Spoiler Break music is Spectrum (Subdiffusion Mix) by Foniqz (BandCamp)
• Pallet Cleanser music is Breath Deep Breath Clear (Wu Chi) by Siobhan Dakay