Day 0 Update #6 – 2/8/2015

On this week’s show: Joystiq is gone but not gone. Nintendo confuses us, and Atlus celebrates Persona! That and more, coming up!

2/8/2015 Show Notes

• What are we playing?
  • Patrick
    • Ridge Racers 2
    • Brandish: The Dark Revenant
    • The Legend of Heroes III
  • Filippo
    • Defense Grid 2
    • Raspberry Pi Fiddling
  • Brandon
    • Bayonetta 2
    • Tomb Raider 2013
    • Dragon Age: Inquisition

• And just like that, it’s over for Joystiq.
  • Joystiq X Engadget, no Gem Packs required.
    • Some confusion…Ludwig’s post seemed a bit final. Joystiq in name only?
• Drift Stage Kickstarter finishes at $57,720, announced for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita
• Raspberry Pi 2 Now on Sale.
• Xbox One getting first major update of the year
• glNext Initiative announced, details to come at GDC
• Nintendo’s short-term strategy: cheaper software, not hardware price cuts
• Bad Netflix. BAD. And Nintendo, you should just know better.
• PewDiePie & company backlash at Nintendo? Yeah, it didn’t go well.
  • Smash excluded from the program, what genius thought that was a good idea?
  • more
• Persona live stream news…
  • Persona 4 Dancing All Night gets 6/25 JP release date.
    • And apparently Disco Teddie is now a thing.
    • Yu Miyake (Tekken), Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill) among those on remix duty
  • Persona 5 trailer released, and it is awesome!
    • Nice to see Igor there, wonder if they recast him or just using stock audio.
    • Anti-heroes “on the run for doing what they think is right”, per Hashino.
    • Seems they’re going from summoning persona to transforming into them.
    • Is that the bar from Catherine I see?
      • Probably not, as Catherine didn’t seem to take place in Japan. Still, Atlus likes giving little nods to their other titles, like the class trip to Iwatodai in Persona 4, so it might not be out of the question…
• Twitter CEO: “We suck at handling abuse.”
  • That can’t be mere happenstance. Moderation would hurt their traffic, business.