Sacred Symbols, Episode 364 | No Squares Shall Enter in the Circle of Winners
Added 2025-06-20 16:00:22 +0000 UTCSony's recent PlayStation-centric corporate presentation illustrated just how powerful their gaming vertical is. Indeed, PlayStation 5 has already generated more revenue for the company than PS1, PS2, and PS3 combined, and in the last five years, Sony has netted more in profit from gaming than it did in all 26 prior years the brand has existed, combined. Within their presentation was a lot of interesting data, quotes, anecdotes, and more to comb through, and we do that with a fine-tooth comb. We also wonder why the video presentation was so awkward, stilted, and choreographed. Can these people not speak extemporaneously and off-the-cuff? But we digress! Then, we get into other pertinent news of the week: Bungie's indefinite delay of Marathon, rumors of Sony's potential interest in Warner Bros., fresh PlayStation 5 and 6 handheld rumors, and more. Then, we end the show (as we always do) with listener inquiries. Is Hermen Hulst truly to blame for PlayStation's serious first party woes? When will Ghost Story's Judas launch? Is controller rumble and vibration an important component of our gameplay experiences? Will Colin's 100 hours in PowerWash Simulator translate to the real world?
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:31:11 - Colin and the pool
0:44:34 - New home tips
0:58:35 - Sony Business Segment Presentation
2:26:40 - Marathon delay
2:55:14 - Is Stellar Blade coming to Switch 2?
3:02:17 - Does Sony want Warner Bros Discovery?
3:15:09 - PlayStation handheld rumors increase
3:29:00 - Death Stranding changed because people liked it too much
3:39:11 - Death Stranding animated adaptation
3:41:34 - Borderlands 4 is $70
3:51:35 - Beastsaber updates on PSVR2 is ending
4:00:36 - Gears beta extended
4:02:42 - What We've Been Playing (Cyberpunk 2077, Splitgate 2, FBC Firebreak Death Stranding)
4:24:06 - Hermen Hulst's long term projects
4:29:36 - PC titles on Xbox's next hardware
4:48:44 - Where is Judas?
4:54:33 - Is vibration important?
5:01:10 - Climate station
5:04:59 - Does knowing who developed a game even matter?
Comments
Anybody else having huge audio issues with this pod? I’m losing audio every 45 seconds for some reason. Unlike their normal production.
Cooper Belisle
2025-06-26 16:53:44 +0000 UTC2:42:28 that accent is actually called “mid-Atlantic”. Ask ChatGPT about it. 🤓
Kid-Organic
2025-06-25 05:14:54 +0000 UTCSelling hardware is materially profitable when its a niche (Rog, Steam deck). (Smallish companies) When you mass market a console you sell at loss or close to a loss to gain material profit on the software. It’s a mass hardware because it’s cheap (loss). Xbox strategy is an exit strategy of the console market. They are probably doing this to shut down everything that is in a console and make it available in their strong ecosystem the pc /pc hybrid.
Drew
2025-06-24 22:40:03 +0000 UTC
