Hey y'all, this week I cover some economic trends in the USA and Canada, before diving into EA and their AI push. I then take a trip back in time with Stephen Totilo's 2004 interview tape with the late Satoru Iwata, as I compare Nintendo and Sony's past... and draw some parallels through time to explain where we find them today... part of that invites a discussion on the PS5 Pro. Otherwise, something something Tony Hawk will come up soon (probably?) at the end of the month, which made me want to play some Street Uni X.
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CHAPTERS
(0:00) Intro
(0:28) Start
(2:45) Overview
(3:08) US Fed Cuts Benchmark Interest Rate
(5:43) Bank of Canada Governor Raises Prospect of Big Rate Cuts
(10:29) EA, AI, and their Investor Show
(16:09) AI Frenzy: BlackRock and Microsoft $30bn Deal
(18:58) Investors Piling on to OpenAI's $6bn Funding Round
(26:02) Nintendo and the Pokémon Company have Sued Palworld Maker, Pocketpair (Game File), (GameSpot)
(32:10) Iwata Tape (Game File)
(32:40) Excited for Replay, Tristan Donovan's Book
(43:58) Speaking of Graphic Fidelity, there's a PS5 Pro! (Venture Beat)
(50:40) The "Who's This For?" Discussion (Financial Times)
(55:28) Tony Hawk 25th Anniversary Coming Up!
(56:36) Street Uni X (Gamma Space)
Attribution: “Crunchy Funk” and “Shapeshifter” by Mr Smith, and “Starting a New Year” by Jesse Spillane, are all licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0. Remixes and transformation were performed.
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