The Patch Game Club is included in the audio format.

This is true. though i disagree on Versus XIII and XV being different productions. When your characters, themes and story carry across it can easily be considered working on the same game. Look at the original FFXIV, crashed and burned, was redone and reworked in its entirety to be playable. Those are both the same game, despite having seperate develpment cycles (new teams altogether) and the games playing nothing like each other in any way.

Not all of the characters, story and themes carried over from Versus. Basically, or at least very close to, none of the themes the game was supposed to portray did, and the overall story was refitted to work in a main series title, along with the characters as well (some of being even being removed due to not working in the new environment). And that's just of what little they had made for Versus at the time, not of the entirety that was meant to be in the final game. And again, that's just the narrative - there's still also the rest of the game. Every concrete asset of Versus was scrapped (obviously) and every game mechanic rethought and reworked. Basically the only thing that remained was the very, very general concept of it being an action RPG. Stuff like that has also been done a lot in not only the series but in gaming in general - using parts of a scrapped previous project for a completely new project. It's nothing out of the ordinary, and as actual development projects, the two games are still very much considered two different ones.

As for FF XIV, that's a different thing, and it's all the same game. A Realm Reborn (the relaunch) was effectively an expansion that relaunched and reworked a lot of the game in addition to that. The original release is still a part of the same broader FF XIV game, and titled Legacy, just like the next one is A Realm Reborn and so on. It's also all a part of the same development, and they didn't switch teams (although that wouldn't really matter in the end). The only thing that changed was a couple of lead developers (mainly Tanaka stepped down and Yoshida took over), but for the majority, the team remained the same. A Realm Reborn and Legacy also do not play "nothing like each other in any way" (I guess you haven't played both of them?) but that's hardly on topic anymore.

I agree. I'm getting sick of them assuming everybody is playing and interested in VR. I think that this podcast has become too VR focused considering all of them use it now.