{"podcast":{"title":"The FlipScreen Games Podcast","slug":"the-flipscreen-games-podcast-4212963","podcast_index_feed_id":4212963,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/667563d4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://flipscreen.games","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/17089693/17089693-1629046776110-9956f18374a7c.jpg","author":"FlipScreen Games","episode_count":197,"summary":"The FlipScreen Games Podcast is a weekly video game podcast hosted by Pete Imbesi and Stephen Radford. Every week two friends from different countries get together to talk about what we're playing, answer listener questions, and discuss the latest happenings in the gaming world.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-08T02:18:13.524388+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-flipscreen-games-podcast-4212963"},"episode":{"title":"Is This The End of Xbox As We Know It? | FlipScreen Games Podcast 172","slug":"is-this-the-end-of-xbox-as-we-know-it-flipscreen-games-podcast-172","published_at":"2025-03-05T15:27:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-flipscreen-games-podcast-4212963/is-this-the-end-of-xbox-as-we-know-it-flipscreen-games-podcast-172","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-flipscreen-games-podcast-4212963","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/flipscreengames/episodes/Is-This-The-End-of-Xbox-As-We-Know-It---FlipScreen-Games-Podcast-172-e2vo5uc","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/667563d4/podcast/play/99407244/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-2-5%2F396011907-44100-2-8d00cda8998ff.mp3","summary":"Pete & Steve DIVE DEEP on how Xbox's current hardware sales are holding back the brand as a whole. Is it time for Xbox to abandon hardware so they can focus their attention on growing Game Pass and publishing games from their MASSIVE studio portfolio? Will market situations beyond their control limit Game Pass growth over the next few years?Sources:https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2024-q4/press-release-webcasthttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2025/earnings-fy-2025-q2https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2024-q4/more-personal-computing-performancehttps://www.gamesindustry.biz/ps5-experiences-record-sales-during-holiday-period-playstation-revenues-reach-11bnhttps://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/archive.htmlhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/number.htmlhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/index.htmlhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/earnings/index.htmlhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/241105_5e.pdfhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/241106e.pdfhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/240507_4e.pdfhttps://kotaku.com/xbox-series-x-s-physical-game-low-sales-digital-1851218453https://gamerant.com/xbox-section-down-sized-target/https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202202/global-playstation-game-unit-sales-quarter/https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/01/xbox-was-decembers-biggest-publisher-and-64percent-of-its-sales-were-on-ps5-ps4https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/new-report-says-pc-games-are-outselling-console-games-calling-pc-gaming-a-bright-spot-in-a-troubled-industry/https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-game-pass-now-has-34-million-fully-paid-subscribers-growth-coming-from-pc-and-cloudhttps://gamerant.com/ps-plus-extra-premium-games-player-count-decline-july-2024/https://www.g…","meta_description":"Pete & Steve DIVE DEEP on how Xbox's current hardware sales are holding back the brand as a whole. Is it time for Xbox to abandon hardware so they can…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6931,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-flipscreen-games-podcast-4212963/episodes/is-this-the-end-of-xbox-as-we-know-it-flipscreen-games-podcast-172/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-flipscreen-games-podcast-4212963/is-this-the-end-of-xbox-as-we-know-it-flipscreen-games-podcast-172.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}