ILP#418 | Battlefield 6 ft @slomobackslap.bsky.social | Ghost of Yotei | Final Fantasy Tactics | Xbox Magnus | Halo Director Leaves #ILP👑http://youtube.com/live/2ikL3L1pRHQ

Iron Lords Podcast is Live Now! @lordcognito.bsky.social @lordaddictilp.bsky.social @kingdavidotw.bsky.social @slomobackslap.bsky.social Topics: ▫️Battlefield 6 ▫️Ghost of Yōtei ▫️Final Fantasy Tactics ▫️Xbox Magnus ▫️Halo Director Leaves

Hardware - Nintendo Switch 2 unit sales are trending 77% ahead the time-aligned sales of the original Nintendo Switch.

Couple fun US stats from Circana's PlayerPulse (n=5.1k): Battlefield 6 purchase intenders are 79% male, 47% aged 18-34, 55% play on PC, and 56% intend to also buy Black Ops 7. Black Ops 7 purchase intenders are 63% male, 32% aged 18-34, 47% play on PC, and 24% intend to also buy Battlefield 6.

Hyper enthusiast, price-insensitive players are really keeping things going, especially in the non f2p gaming space. According to Circana's Q3 2025 Future of Games, only 4% of US video game players buy a new game more often than once per month, with a third of players not buying any games at all.

New BRAP podcast is up with @gamelogiq.bsky.social @slomobackslap.bsky.social @timdog4lyfe.bsky.social We discuss the Game Pass price increase and more! www.youtube.com/live/0xhq8sn...

Some early gameplay of Borderlands 4. I’m really enjoying the combat and it’s exactly what this franchise needed. But the performance needs a lot of work, very poorly optimized on PC.

@ramonterrell.bsky.social This is what I mean between the Pictos and your active Luminas.

Metal Eden is pretty damn good. That is all.

SCOOP: Perfect Dark was almost revived. The game's developers were close to a deal with Take-Two to fund and publish the game following its cancellation by Xbox in July, sources say, but negotiations fell through, leading to layoffs at Crystal Dynamics last week. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hardware - Nintendo Switch 2 has now surpassed 2 million units sold in the US life-to-date. It is currently 75% ahead of the unit sales pace set by the original Nintendo Switch.

Hardware - Nintendo Switch 2 drove July’s hardware spending growth. July dollar sales of PS5 hardware fell 47% compared to a year ago, while Xbox Series spending dropped by 69%. Nintendo Switch spending declined 52% year-on-year.

Circana Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly Active Users (Not Concurrent) - W/E Aug 16, 2025 - The Battlefield 6 beta ranked 1st on Steam across the US, Mexico and Canada, while also ranking 4th on both PlayStation and Xbox in the US.

So I'm off work today because I'm going to the Commanders game with my son. Decided to test all of my controllers for input latency, error rate %, and polling rate because I'm bored. Results were fascinating.

When you run out of ammo, randomly pickup a gun off the ground and find out it's awesome lol

DPS Podcast will be postponed until next week. See you guys next Thursday.

Come join us tonight for @gamingforte.bsky.social playing Death Stranding again! Getting started at 10:30PM EST. LINK: t.co/GJb9uDu2fW

Hardware - Nintendo Switch 2 sold 1.6M units in June, the highest launch month unit sales for video game hardware in US history. The previous high was the 1.1M units of PlayStation 4 sold during November 2013.

2025 Year-to-Date Top 20 Best-Selling Premium Games - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing publishers, excludes add-on content)

June 2025 Top 20 Best-Selling Premium Games - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing publishers, excludes add-on content)

June 2025 U.S. Video Game Market Highlights from Circana - Nintendo Switch 2 debuted as the fastest selling video game hardware device in US history, while consumer spending in both video game hardware and accessories reached new all-time June records.

This all knives build in Cyberpunk is pretty good despite dealing with a bug introduced in the 2.3 update. Headhunter + Fang + Blue Fang, and the right build setup should make sure you never run out of knives to throw. Either way, I added the Maxtac Mantis Blades if I ever do.

DPS podcast going live in 5 minutes! Link: www.youtube.com/live/-olZqji...

Always love when NPR puts out a new list like this. Never fail to discover a handful of incredible games I never knew existed. www.npr.org/2025/07/16/n...

Circana Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly Active Users (Not Concurrent) - W/E Jul 5, 2025 - Mecha Break launches at 11th on Steam US and 12th on Xbox. - Diablo IV jumps to 10 on PS with PS+ add. - Call of Duty: WWII hits 8 on Xbox with Game Pass. - Peak hits #1 on Steam MEX.

Lunch Time W/ SloMo | Productivity vs Creativity LIVE Now! LINK: twitch.tv/slomobackslap

May 2025 U.S. Video Game Market Highlights from Circana - May 2025 projected U.S. total spending on video game hardware, content and accessories grew 1% when compared to a year ago, to $4.1 billion. Year-to-date spending finished the month 6% behind 2024’s pace, at $21.8 billion.

Lunch Time W/ SloMo | Road to Borderlands 4 LINK: twitch.tv/slomobackslap

Circana Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly Active Users (Not Concurrent) - W/E Jun 21, 2025 - Peak debuts at 6th on the Steam US & CAN charts, was 12th in MEX. - FBC: Firebreak launches at number 15 on Xbox while ranking 23rd on PlayStation. Was both in Game Pass and PS+.

When a counterargument targets the reasons behind someone's statement rather than addressing the statement itself, it often indicates a lack of a substantive rebuttal to the original claim.

Hate to contribute to a Discourse, but 3rd party share of Switch 2 software in the US is far better than it was during the Switch 1 launch.

Had a little fun in Splitgate.

I said I wasn't gonna do it, but then I went and did it anyway lol.

I can't think of a single game that's going to outdo Expedition 33 for GOTY.

ROG Ally 2 leaks: new design, larger screen and Xbox version videocardz.com/newz/asus-ro...

Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRL...

Apparently Yuji Horii confirmed a Chrono Trigger remake during an interview at Comicon Naples. He then said through translator "You have heard nothing" after apparently realizing what just happened www.reddit.com/r/chronotrig... www.reddit.com/r/dragonques...

I love this game. #expedition33

Just finished Act 1 of Expedition 33....wow.

I have nearly 7 hours in Expedition 33 I wish I wasn’t so busy today so I could play it more.

This is a truly beautiful game. #expedition33

Time to think up a new build to run in this Division 2 Brooklyn DLC.

Nintendo says it received 2.2 million applications to preorder the Nintendo Switch 2 in Nintendo Japan's store. The number "far exceeds our expectations, and far exceeds the number of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles that can be delivered from the My Nintendo Store on June 5th"

Ghost of Yōtei comes to PS5 on October 2. New trailer introduces the Yōtei Six — gang members Atsu has sworn to hunt down: play.st/3GkxBT4

Tough week for haters of video games tbh.

Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/...

Not to sound like a broken record. But there's a certain point where trade just stops (Minus the exempted items) because it becomes too prohibitive to import anything from China. We hit that point about 3 tariff raises ago.

The refusal to provide people due process before shipping them off to foreign prisons is criminal and intolerable. It must not be normalized. Everyone who believes in justice and America needs to speak up now.