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Mike is joined by the one and only Kahlief Adams to talk about what we’re missing in the current sports video games landscape!
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00:00:00 – Start
00:02:43 – Big Podcast Milestones w/ Kahlief!
00:08:43 – Housekeeping
00:09:55 – What are sports games missing today?
00:38:00 – Positive Week For Xbox Sales In Japan!
00:52:14 – What Kahlief Wants for Xbox’s Showcase
01:06:28 – Evil Dead The Game Has Sold Well Early!
01:10:55 – Giving Kah Trivia Grief
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Witness
04.06.2022Great episode with KFW superstar Kah Kah
ImaginaryBlue
03.06.2022Bring back 1080 Snowboarding! Who doesn't love snowboarding on a penguin?!?!
G P
03.06.2022We haven't had NBA Jam since On Fire edition like a decade ago. We have entirely new generation of stars since the last one.
* Seph -
03.06.2022Skate or Die
Blades of Steel
Arch Rivals
Mutant League series
Cody Jones
03.06.2022Bring back the OG Backyard Baseball,Def Jam Vendetta and Blitz:The League
morhboct3
03.06.2022Sports games need Dynamic life situations in career modes for example your custom character should have to deal with more than just injury that would affect his stats and ability to play he should have to deal with family issues , personal causes, keeping your sponsors happy, going clubbing with friends, girlfriends, kids all stuff that modern athletes have to deal with
judah_macabe
03.06.2022Bring back Harry Potter Quidditch World Cup!!
Blanco718
03.06.2022Cant wait for that new boxing game to come out!!
Drew The Gam3r
03.06.2022I miss EA BIG & Fight Night so much….and I don’t even watch sports
BrothaStills
03.06.2022Madden currently has a NFL Street type mode with Madden KO, my main problem with that mode is that it is an online only thing that isn’t nearly as fleshed out as the Street games. But a lot of the plays from NFL Street are in this mode
Jonathan Beaulieu
03.06.2022Miss the SSX series so much. I played maybe 1000h of SSX when i was young
CaptainMaakasu
01.06.2022Boxing games.. Where are they!? We've only seen eSports Boxing Club so far, which is on the other side of the rainbow..
I'm still gonna wish for a new Hajime no Ippo game in secret ^^
Kip Smithers
01.06.2022Big fax Kah! Doris Burke is dope! I don’t allow anybody around me to talk nonsense about Doris when she’s commentating a game 😂
WbBuck
01.06.2022No love for NHL!
Break It Down
01.06.2022Finally the topic we need discussed more at length! Thank you.
livibam
01.06.2022Me and a mate used to bet multiple £100s while playing drug fuelled sessions of Top Spin 2
Kip Smithers
01.06.2022Since Kah brought it up…would love to see Maximilian dood come on KF content at some point in the future. Maybe alongside Blessing to review a future new fighting game release on gamescast?! 👀
AlwaysKola
01.06.2022NFL 2K needs to come back. I can t wait to see their new NFL arcade game that was announced. NFL 2K commentators we're the best as well. Best line "You Can't Coach That!"
Lprieto33
01.06.2022NBA Street Vol. 2 was an absolute classic! Wish it was BC.
Mario T.
01.06.2022Another great show, love Kahlief in the show👍🏽
Aaron Marohl
01.06.2022Kah was thinking of 'Sega Sports Tennis' on PS2. Great game!
Jermel Purse
31.05.2022Who is think about a sports game you need to sell and that’s difficult for a genre that could be viewed as niche. Just think for a second what are some of the biggest sports games to rock the world. Notice my words I want sports games that rock us that changed what we thought about sports. They don’t come along often. Now we have franchises that we all flock to every year that are big that sell Madden in BF NBA 2K for example. I’m not saying those are big but I’m saying those are predictable. What are the sports franchises that literally shook up the video gaming industry the ones that people said wow I’ve never heard of that I have to have that. The biggest one ever was Wii sports. Everyone had to have it your grandmother had it most likely. My grandmother is a gamer so she had all the games my mother she’s not a gamer she had Wii sports and dad he’s not a gamer he had it too. Now that’s reaching main stream with your sports game and that’s what every sports game wants to really do they want to sell. They want to be featured on late night television like Wii sports was. Then you have the games that we gamers play skate, Tony Hawk, SSX you understand what I mean these are games that gamers pick up and that mainstream audience look at and say oh yeah I’ll get that too. But they fade away they don’t remain popular fixtures in gaming they come and go it’s a ebon flow to them so that’s the problem with sports gaming you either need to be a franchise that’s been storied in history to get sales you need to literally rock the boat such as Wii sports did shake up the world or you need to prepare to be part of the ebb and flow of things.
Now very interestingly I think it could be helpful to the first party developers to have a major sports franchise that pops up every three or four years something that gamers know is dependable and they will get and it will be given to them at a relatively low cost in the case of GamePass it comes with the service in the case of Sony they could add it to the service as well to be honest. Just imagine every few years you get your snowboard game then you get your skateboard game then you get your kart racer so on and so forth at a regular scheduled pace it would keep gamers interested in your platform because they know I’m going to get a sports game this is part of the Xbox ecosystem or this is part of the Sony ecosystem. I think the first part of developers overlook how stabilizing that could be for gamers to know that I’m going to have this experience available to me sure that could be a selling point to stick with your platform as opposed to the competitions.
Mark Heath
31.05.2022Oh right Kah works with FCF. Well guess I'm skipping this episode
Jeff Smith
31.05.2022Yes! We are missing a good boxing game!
Yarden Tulchinsky
31.05.2022you can tell Phil at the Xbox showcase to not put jrpg games on Xbox, we will play them on playstation
Muck45
31.05.2022Once Barrett is on a show is one thing he is going do is talk to much 🤦🏽♂️
Games With James
31.05.2022Disappointed in the NYCFC top…
AdBlock Every1
31.05.20221vs100.. Really? That game was garbage.
Landon L.
31.05.2022BRING BACK SHADOWRUN
GuitarHeroAero
31.05.2022Phil, Larry, and Alanah for episode 100. Make it happen!
Side note, gah remember when Xcast was just a 6-episode pilot program? How far we've come! Love tuning into this show each and every week.
Ian Roberson
31.05.2022Anybody remember top spin? That game, along with every single XSN title, was the top notch. That’s the Microsoft I miss… now Xbox is proud just to flash their Game Pass logo in front of Sony’s baseball game…
S T
30.05.2022Enjoyed the XCast ep as always – fun watch @Snowbikemike! 😄
PdxVman
30.05.2022I just want more Mario sports games like Strikers(which we're getting) and Sluggers from the Wii, I want volleyball Mario, and honestly just any arcade sports game with some depth/customization!
Sham Narayan
30.05.2022Mike this content doesnt cut it bro, you need the team.
Blake J
30.05.2022we need more action sports games and quirky stuff like sled storm
Philip Heaven
30.05.2022Enjoyed hearing more from Mike on this episode
Haz Kaj
30.05.2022Was he being sarcastic about the jrpgs? Because I hope he was. We need more games like that not garbage ass dudebros shooters.
TayloredArt 01
30.05.2022For your first 100th episode you should get Phil Spencer after an epic Snowbichael Michael recap of the first hunnid jisoints.
THE THINKER
30.05.2022I really do miss Paris he is the man
THE THINKER
30.05.2022I CANT WAIT FOR NCAA FOOTBALL GAME FROM EA
THE THINKER
30.05.2022Xbox is bringing a new tennis game to game pass soon
THE THINKER
29.05.2022I love the new golf games. I also have a bowling game called PGA TOUR 22
THE THINKER
29.05.2022Xbox outselling ps5 in Japan is big .It's a sign that xbox is making inroads in China but much work to do
spaz co
29.05.2022fight night needs a comeback.
mxmastermitch
29.05.2022Kahleif won me over with his JRPG and “Final” fantasy take. Lol love the energy there
Matt R.
29.05.2022We know what projects the majority of MS first party are working on. I'd like to see The Coalition's new game. As well as what Compulsion and Inexile are working on.
Henry IV
29.05.2022How is the topic of the current state of sports gaming discussed without bringing up NFL 2k?? The fictional broadcast/announcing duo of Dan Stevens and Peter O’Keefe was also legendary. So many memorable one-liners.
I also wish the EA Street series would return, but I doubt we’ll see it come back.
Unfortunately exclusive licensures have ruined the landscape for sports video gaming. All we have left are the memories.
DestructableMe
29.05.2022Been Loving PGA2k with the buddies, lots of custom courses so the replayability is great, plus it's cross play with peeps on last gen.
Tommy Larsen
29.05.2022I need NHL Hitz so bad!
bpfattio
29.05.2022Sonic Tennis on the 360 was great!