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These stories just keep a'comin, huh? Join us on today's IG Daily as we discuss the latest "expensive next-gen games" debacle - but this time, for a Control port?? We're joined today by the lovely Riana Manuel of What's Good Games, so come hang out with us as we talk that money money.

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So by now we all know the news: the much-anticipated Halo Infinite has been delayed to 2021. Ouchies. Join us today as we talk about what's on everyone's minds now - so what next? What does this mean for the game? Why did they make this decision? All this and more, on today's IG Daily!

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I mean, the headline says it all - not only does this Last Of Us 2 update have some super dope visual mods, it also brings back the beloved Grounded mode, along with PERMADEATH in case you really hate yourself. Look, we don't judge - 2020's got us all feeling a type of way. Did we mention the accessibility improvements in Grounded mode? We also bring back the wonderful Stephanie Ijoma of NNESAGA to share her thoughts on the update. Dive deep into the details with us on today's IG Daily!

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Facebook Gaming has joined the ranks of Microsoft and Google as the latest to get hit with weird gaming restrictions from the App Store. Apple insists that these restrictions are to keep GAMERS safe, which in practice sounds great - but then why are they so lenient with other apps that don't directly compete with their OWN gaming business? Hmmmmmmmm interesting. Almost like they don't wanna host any competition on their platforms! Join us as we chat about the details on today's Inside Gaming Daily.

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Yesterday, US President and orange man Donald Trump signed an executive order that says ByteDance (parent company of WeChat) and Tencent (parent company of TikTok) are now enemies of the state and a threat to national security. The order was vaguely worded but data collection and data mining have been tied to WeChat and TikTok - so in 45 days transactions related to either service and their parent companies will be prohibited! This implicates a lot of very big video games and publishers because TenCent owns, oh ya know, EVERYTHING. Epic and Fortnite come to mind immediately as well as Riot and League of Legends. Even video game website Fanbyte is owned by Tencent. So what does this all mean for our precious videogames? Well stick around and find out, right here on Inside Gaming Daily.

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[Public Pool] Subject: Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat https://bit.ly/3ijTbWv

[Polygon] Riot Games now owned entirely by Tencent https://bit.ly/3knvfTX

[Fortune] China’s Tencent Folds Yet Another Video Game Company Into Its Empire https://bit.ly/3fBH8lB

[Wikipedia] Tencent https://bit.ly/30Dusqn

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The Switch's reign of domination continues! Nintendo is SUPER winning the console wars right now with a whopping 61.44 MILLION UNITS SOLD. GOOD GOD. At a number just about to take over the NES, we explain all about why that's such an impressive number on today's Inside Gaming Daily. We did the Math. Or, to rephrase - Alanah did the Maths.

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An Activision Blizzard earnings call earlier this week turned our heads when the company's president, Robert Kostich, didn’t give a straight answer in regards to a question about pricing for next-gen titles. Seems simple enough - if Activision’s game prices were going to stay the same they would have just said so. However, the Activision Blizzard president deflected and talked about how much “extra entertainment value” the new next gen titles are going to have...and we all know what that means. Activision is just the next in line waiting to charge $70 for all games moving into the future. Clutch your wallets and dive on in, we’re cutting through the corporate bull today on Inside Gaming Daily!

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[GamesRadar] Activision to share plans for next-gen pricing

https://www.gamesradar.com/activision-blizzard-says-theyll-share-plans-for-next-gen-game-pricing-soon/

[GamesIndustry.biz] 2K21 will cost $70 https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-07-02-nba-2k21-price-is-usd10-more-expensive-on-xbox-series-x-and-ps5

[GamesRadar] Ubisoft to stay the course at $60

https://www.gamesradar.com/ubisoft-confirms-next-gen-games-coming-this-year-will-still-be-dollar60/

[Polygon] Treyarch and Raven teaming up on next CoD https://www.polygon.com/2020/8/4/21354793/call-of-duty-2020-black-ops-5-treyarch-raven-software-pc-ps4-xbox-one-ps5

[Yahoo Finance] Activision earnings above expectations https://finance.yahoo.com/news/activision-blizzard-q2-earnings-2020-200550563.html

[Engadget] Activision laid off 800 people last year

https://www.engadget.com/2019-02-12-activision-blizzard-layoffs-800-employees-record-2018.html

[Game Industry.biz] Bobby Kotick gets paid way too much https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-06-04-activision-blizzard-shareholders-upset-over-ceo-bobby-koticks-compensation

[Bloomberg] Employees are also sharing wages in an effort to improve wage equality

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-08-03/blizzard-workers-share-salaries-in-revolt-over-wage-disparities

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Microsoft's cloud gaming service, xCloud, has been more than a whisper on the wind for a while now - and it looks like it’s finally getting a launch date of September 15th! There’s one problem though: seems like xCloud will be skipping Apple devices all together for the initial roll out. On the upside, according to a post on Xbox Wire, the service will support over 100 games at launch which is pretty cool...unless you have an iphone or ipad. Another great detail is that service will be included into Ultimate Game Pass memberships. Awesome! Buuuut it looks like xCloud is only initially coming to 22 regions around the world...oh for crying out loud... we’re gonna need a data table to see who can actually use the service aren’t we? Okay, okay… that wasn’t a great joke but you should be proud of us. We got through a whole description for Inside Gaming Daily without dunking on Stadia.

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[Xbox Wire] Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and xCloud https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/08/04/xbox-game-pass-ultimate-cloud-gaming-on-september-15/?ocid=XGP_soc_omc_xbo_tw_Video_lrn_8.4

[Twitter] Xbox Game Pass Announcement https://twitter.com/XboxGamePass/status/1290634850718740482?s=20

[TechRadar] Game Pass Logo Change https://www.techradar.com/news/xbox-game-pass-looks-set-to-drop-the-xbox-part-of-its-name#:~:text=First%2C%20it%20quietly%20discontinued%2012,Xbox'%20from%20Xbox%20Game%20Pass.

[TechJury] Mobile Gaming Statistics

https://techjury.net/blog/mobile-gaming-statistics/#gref

[Statista] Smartphone Market Share

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held-by-smartphone-platforms-in-the-united-states/#:~:text=Apple%20iOS%20continues%20to%20hold,percent%20share%20in%20September%202019.

[Major Nelson] xCloud limited to iOS Test Flight Program 

https://majornelson.com/2020/02/12/project-xcloud-limited-ios-testflight-preview-begins-today/

[Apple Arcade] Apple Arcade

https://www.apple.com/apple-arcade/

[Stadia] Stadia Support

https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9576515?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS#:~:text=The%20Stadia%20app%20is%20available,app%20can%20be%20found%20here.

[ArTechnica] One Million People Have Tried Stadia

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/04/one-million-people-have-tried-google-stadia-mobile-app-estimates-suggest/#:~:text=Enter%20mobile%20analytics%20firm%20Sensor,app%20across%20iOS%20and%20Android.

[Statista] Smartphone Users Worldwide

https://www.statista.com/statistics/330695/number-of-smartphone-users-worldwide/

[Statista] Console Gamers Worldwide

https://www.statista.com/statistics/748093/number-console-gamers-world-platform/#:~:text=Number%20of%20console%20gamers%20worldwide%202014%2D2021&text=It%20was%20estimated%20that%20by,to%20677%20million%20by%202021.

[Mobile Marketer] Global Game Revenue Study

https://www.mobilemarketer.com/news/mobile-games-sparked-60-of-2019-global-game-revenue-study-finds/569658/#:~:text=Mobile%20games%20made%20up%2060,by%202024%2C%20per%20the%20research.

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Former PlayStation Executive, Shahid Ahmad, has gone on record stating that the launch of PS4 could quite possibly have been the end of PlayStation as we know it. Of course, we always knew that the PS4 was going to have an uphill battle due to the shortcomings of the PS3’s launch and life-cycle but to hear former execs equate the PS4’s success to life and death for the brand is certainly a new perspective. This behind the scenes look comes to us from early screenings and a trailer for a new PlayStation documentary making the rounds and it’s pretty clear with some of the big names attached that we’ll be getting all sorts of new perspectives to consider throughout the history of the platform. The documentary is called Bedrooms to Billions: The PlayStation Revolution and will release on September 7th 2020 but until then we’ll be right here on Inside Gaming Daily reading the tea leaves and determining if in fact, like a river, the past does repeat itself with the upcoming launch of the PS5.

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[VGC] A PlayStation documentary is set to release alongside its 25th anniversary

[VGC] PS4 ‘could’ve been the end’ for PlayStation, says former exec

[Wikipedia] List of best-selling game consoles

[Wired] A Look Back at Sony's Overblown PlayStation 3 Promises

[Venture Beat] Playing the last PlayStation 2 game ever made

[CNet] PlayStation 4 to sell at a loss, but Sony expects profit

[Macrotrends] Sony Net Worth 2006-2020 | SNE

[Quartz] Microsoft is now worth over $1 trillion, a stunning run since Satya Nadella’s ascent

[The Verge] Why Microsoft wants TikTok

[Bloomberg] Sony Is Struggling With PlayStation 5 Price Due to Costly Parts

[Polygon] Report: Sony struggling with PS5 costs, price point uncertain

[The Verge] Microsoft’s Xbox boss says Amazon and Google are ‘the main competitors going forward’

[gamesindustry.biz] The console war is over | Opinion

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Valve boss Gabe Newell picked his side in the console wars this week when he appeared on a New Zealand talk show to talk mess about the PS5. Okay well not really, he was just asked which one was better and he said Xbox. Of course, this simple back and forth will be used to fuel the great flames of the ever consuming console debate that rages everytime a new generation of hardware arrives. Honestly, we can’t complain though - because whoever loses, we all win. We get to make a video about it and you get to watch it in another edition of Inside Gaming Daily!!!

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[Twitter] @RSeriesxbox https://bit.ly/3farVrD

[Tom’s Guide] Xbox Series X ‘cares’ more about 120 fps gaming than PS5 https://bit.ly/2DfRkmi

[Twitter] @dynamic_voltage https://bit.ly/3jYt8pI

[Twitter] @CJGrannell https://bit.ly/3g8Ham1

[Youtube, Dealer - Gaming] RDX FT Game Developers: Xbox Series X UPDATE! Halo Infinite News, Xbox Series S REVEAL, PS5 Games https://bit.ly/3jLHXvz

[Video Games Chronicle] A former PlayStation developer claims Xbox Series X is ‘a beast’ compared to PS5 https://bit.ly/2P4q7FW

[Video Games Chronicle] Xbox boss says he felt ‘even better’ after seeing PS5 hardware specs https://bit.ly/3hNTvNd

[The Verge] Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says the PS5 is so impressive it’s ‘going to help drive future PCs’ https://bit.ly/30XItxU