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Kinda Funny announces their new Xbox Podcast
- Thread starter jbug617
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I think he's awesome. Warm and funny. Great podcaster and interviewer too.
what do you mean by "enough content though" kinda funny seems to crank out content on almost everything. MS is about to announce a slate of new games, a new console generation, new streaming service, gamepass is still relatively new. there's easily 60 mins / week of stuff to talk about?
What a fantastic lineup of gaming personalities.
I've gotten tired of everything and everyone but giant bomb/giant beastcast but I think I'll enjoy this.
I've gotten tired of everything and everyone but giant bomb/giant beastcast but I think I'll enjoy this.
Nah. No thanks. This is what I love about Kinda Funny. It's very casual and feels genuine. I like the ramblings and background noises. They feel like real people that you are hanging out with and listening to them talk about games. I don't want that to change.
If you have more time to spend for the exact same info, that's good for you. Most people don't have it, and the amount of podcasts people listen is rising every day.
But even if you have time, there is a missed opportunity with this media.
Imagine discussing about a moment in game X, and the Edition cut adds the background music and some dialogue from that point in the game.
After listening to Moves and News podcasts adding this type of care, my gaming podcasts sound cheap.
It's a strong set of hosts, so I'm sure it'll be a decent listen, but I have to say I'm surprised to see so many people excited about platform-centric podcasts. I thought most outlets had moved away from that sort of reporting (and it's certainly not something I personally enjoy), but I guess there's still a large audience for it. I'm curious to see how the reception turns out.
Ironically that sounds like a huge waste of time personally. If a gaming podcast did that I would be alot less likely to listen to it.
Listen to the New York Times podcast to see how much you can learn in 20 minutes.
I really don't have time to listen to someone fixing their microphone or ranting about some random off topic.
Excited to listen to this. Hope there is some good chemistry, seems like a random (but good) crew.
I think we just have different priorities. I don't listen to game podcasts to learn things as much as I listen to them for entertainment.
Their other shows already cover xbox/nintendo/ps4 news. It's hard to do daily shows and not cover everything. Seems this show would be more of a "this week in xbox".
If you look at PSiloveyou its going to be a deeper dive into different franchises or smaller exclusive titles. it will probably mirror this but with Xbox game studios or gamepass exclusives in mind. interesting to see the fresh new team be brought together for this aswell
Alanah is great, but I don't really care for an Xbox podcast. Hopefully she can be on some KFGDs too? gameovergreggy
Up until Sony's show an Xbox podcast would probably have more to talk about this year than either a Sony or Nintendo podcast.
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Maybe, but she still works for Funhaus so I doubt she'll have much time.
Off topic rants are what make podcasts worth listening to. You know how rubes like to say "stick to X"? Well I love it when people don't stick to X.
Great cast and we need another dedicated Xbox podcast. Alanah really knows her stuff, same with Gary and he's entertaining, I don't know the other guy. Hopefully it extends beyond the 6 week pilot.
It's just the way he talks, he used to work in radio and he uses that same "professional" voice. He seems like a genuinely nice person and I enjoy his podcast as well.
Hes fine, maybe a bit old fashioned. I dont really seek out his content though and do sort of wish they would freshen up their forward facing personalities.
Speaking of Xbox marketing, whoever has been running the Game Pass twitter needs a promotion lmao
I like him, he's active with the community and helps out people when they reach out to him. See him quite a bit on r/xboxone.
Oh, ok. Only watch their daily show and their "specials" so wasn't really sure how psiloveyou or its Xbox equivalent work.
So strange that KF feel so unconfident about doing an xbox podcast they have to do a trial. Like there's not literally tens of millions of them. It's like Xbox owners a foreign species or something.
To some people they are, imagine Colin Moriarity being a guest/host.
For some reason I can't quite identify, I love listening to Gary Whitta talk So I'll be listening to this podcast even though I haven't been in the Xbox ecosystem for 8 or so years now. Maybe I'll have to get back into it. Game Pass sure sounds amazing :)
Not a big fan of Mike. I just can't get over his style and voice. Which I mean when I'm listening to these when driving, the voice is 100% going to make it or break it lol. It's hard to explain.
Gary is gold though
Gary is gold though
You just never really know who your audience exactly is. They may find that the majority of their listeners don't care about Xbox, which means an Xbox show wouldn't make KF any money. Doing a trial let's them see if the potential is there.
But that's like a supermarket refusing to sell vegetarian food, saying "But none of our customers are vegetarian".
Of course they aren't! You don't sell anything they want!
Sell the product and the customers come.
KFG are missing out on so many customers because of their lack of xbox know how/engagement.
This is a good first step.
As someone trying to start a business, I wish it worked that way lol
Think all 3 of the hosts being subcontractors and advertising atm contributing a lot to going into a new show more cautiously.
In this case, it is filling a void that exists within Kinda Funny's platform agnostic content aswell - there is a reason none of the KF full timers are on this podcast.
I love Allanah and Gary, but I don't for the life of me see the appeal at all to Snowbike Mike. I only make it like 5 minutes into anything KF with him in it, audibly groan and turn off the video. I'll have to give this a pass
That's fine, but to pretend that everyone has the same needs and wants as you is strange. Videogame podcasts have a long history of veering off-topic and having 5 star run times for a reason. People want it.
It was just sarcasm given the shit ton of news that just came out from Xbox.
Someone get Tim Gettys a goddamn Nintendo podcast like you don't even have to worry about content cause Nintendo nostalgia trips will get people through the rough patches.