Sacred Symbols, Episode 335 | Time To Go Mobile
Added 2024-11-29 17:01:01 +0000 UTCOver the past year or so, rumors have percolated surrounding a future PlayStation handheld, but in reality, no one knew what the exact nature of this hypothetical device would be. Could it be a successor to PSP and Vita? Or perhaps a portable PS4 or PS4 Pro? Well, it's neither of those things, if recent reporting is accurate. Instead, Sony is apparently building a fully portable PlayStation 5, which -- if accurate -- could completely upend not only the core gaming market, but the traditional cadence of console generations, full-stop. But perhaps the biggest question about a PS5 Portable is this: What does it mean for PlayStation 6? Other news this week includes an update to Sony's pursuit of Kadokawa Corporation, the retirement of legendary PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida after 31 years with the brand (and 38 years at Sony itself), a surprise upward revision of PlayStation 2's once-static sales number, and much more. We round things out with listener inquiries, as we always do. Do we have any preliminary "gaming plans" for 2025? Will the west's catastrophic demographic collapse have equally catastrophic ramifications for the gaming space? What does it mean when a game (or gamer) is called "sweaty"? Have we officially reached peak "Fantasy Slop Nerd" voice?
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:27:35 - Chris Chan's spawn
0:35:10 - Bluesky
0:55:19 - Sacred celebrity look-alikes
0:56:44 - Fantasy nerd slop voice
0:59:47 - PS5 selling faster than PS1
1:02:26 - Alan Wake corrections
1:04:35 - Updated PS2 sales numbers
1:10:17 - Troy Baker is in Naughty Dog's next game
1:20:43 - My First Gran Turismo
1:24:03 - Helldivers 2 Controller incoming
1:32:18 - Dino Crisis and RE: Directors Cut can be bought a la carte
1:34:49 - Cyberpunk 2077 surpasses 30 million, Witcher 4 is in production
1:37:34 - What Are We Playing?
2:19:39 - PlayStation is working on a new handheld
2:40:32 - Kadokawa updates
2:54:45 - Shuhei Yoshida is leaving PlayStation
3:17:48 - New PS Plus games coming
3:26:10 - Gaming mission statements for 2025
3:35:29 - Gaming needs new markets to grow
3:42:04 - What does being "sweaty" mean?
3:47:41 - AI gaming companies
Comments
Shuhei is a legend! All the best to him always!
Marco Maluf
2025-01-25 03:02:39 +0000 UTCIf Elon is a top D4 player, he is either lying about that or how hard/long he works
Jack
2024-12-04 21:39:15 +0000 UTCAssmad shitlibs are leaving Twitter/X because they no longer can suppress stories like the Hunter Biden laptop. I’m sure left-wing hate speech is very much allowed on Bluesky.
WashedAF
2024-12-04 20:00:41 +0000 UTCTwitter isn't really big outside the US, and it's definitely not the main social media platform. Twitter is closer to Pinterest than it is to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok in terms of monthly users
Cornelius
2024-12-04 11:13:51 +0000 UTCI couldn't disagree more on the packaging. This pretentious crap that Apple is doing, pretending that overspending, on their technology makes you a better human being, is sickening. I'm buying a console. It needs to be packaged, so that is it safely transferred to me. Nothing else, and anything else more than that, is just pretentious.
Germanos
2024-12-04 10:04:16 +0000 UTCPeople who genuinely care either way and go to bat for social media companies are the same. On either side of the aisle.
Bartevious
2024-12-03 18:52:06 +0000 UTCIn MW2 or MW3 with a .2 sec ADS time I get it. I haven’t seen any guns scope in like slight of hand or QuickDraw in over a decade tho
Bartevious
2024-12-03 18:40:52 +0000 UTCHaven’t played cod in years but I disagree about the quick scoping point of sweats. Quick scoping has always been high risk high reward. 99 percent of “quick scopers” would perform better with the meta AR or SMG.
Bartevious
2024-12-03 18:40:05 +0000 UTCBluesky probably won't survive. I just think it is hilarious the usual suspects are mad some are choosing to use a differently moderated platform. Call it an echo chamber all you want. Some people will seek alternatives when the other platform allows all kinds of hate speech, but saying cisgender will get you suspended.
Dennis
2024-12-03 15:13:04 +0000 UTCHe just posted on there about crying watching Wicked 🤣💀
Bailey Callis
2024-12-02 20:26:33 +0000 UTCFennoscandeeznuts
Gooch Gobbler
2024-12-02 19:20:19 +0000 UTCyeah I can't believe they care about the packaging at all tbh lol
Gooch Gobbler
2024-12-02 19:17:42 +0000 UTCyeah no idea what Colin was talking about there lol it better be next year!
Gooch Gobbler
2024-12-02 19:15:22 +0000 UTCRE: Colin's Look-Alike... there is a 2018 documentary called "Three Identical Strangers", and one of these three individuals (the thinnest) looks so much like Colin I had to look up the cast to make double-sure. Google image the doc title, and then look for the image where the three of them have their arms around each other. The dude on the right is a pretty close doppelganger -- complete with the throwback white-afro.
Kevin Cooper
2024-12-02 15:30:45 +0000 UTCShuhei yoshida on a future sacred plus episode? 🤔
mattyboy316
2024-12-02 15:23:12 +0000 UTCIt’s a challenging game
Alec Davis
2024-12-02 14:02:10 +0000 UTCI have play COD multiplayer and campaign on the portal and it has been nearly perfect. Granted I’m not a FPS pro, but I can easily hold my own with a 1+ K/D. The same I have when playing on the PS5 directly
Glen Yelenovic
2024-12-02 13:52:24 +0000 UTC32:23 lmao chris saying no like spiderman.
[ Enrique ]
2024-12-02 11:58:49 +0000 UTCColin is exceptionally strange about hating any and everything Chinese. The end of his podcast: “Proudly recorded in the USA.” Like what does that even mean..?
Stevie Q
2024-12-02 07:28:49 +0000 UTCLol yeah in the other thread I linked the definition from Cambridge dictionary. I say this meaning no offence, but Colin is such a classic American. He was so confident in saying "hash out" is the correct terminology, whereas that's an American phrase - and "thrash out" (as was in the article) makes more sense to the rest of the world. As this was a Japanese article, about two Japanese companies negotiating, which was then translated - their phrasing was correct
Deemac
2024-12-01 23:56:17 +0000 UTCWhat company has a portable device as their focal point or is trying to make it one?
The Rose Experience
2024-12-01 16:38:09 +0000 UTCInn regard to Judas' release date, Take-Two did say in 2023 that they expect Judas to be released by March 2025, so thr interviewer may just be referencing that.
Baden Ronie
2024-12-01 14:05:17 +0000 UTCDustin talking about his pro experience sums up the state of the gaming landscape. Patches, updates, new tech actually being worse, needing an fps counter on your TV to discern the difference etc etc. It's a mess.
kunsam
2024-12-01 08:10:24 +0000 UTCAckshully.... The write in using "thrash out" was correct. It means to 'discuss a problem in detail until you reach an agreement or find a solution'.
kunsam
2024-12-01 08:07:36 +0000 UTCEveryone keeps saying how terrifying Silent Hill 2 Remake is, but I found it more humorous than scary.
Joseph Gedgaudas
2024-12-01 07:04:58 +0000 UTCExactly he said every reason except the main one lol
Connor Staley
2024-12-01 03:02:56 +0000 UTC“Completely decentralized” isn’t true at all. Bluesky’s ecosystem is currently closed off and centrally managed. It leans on the AT Protocol for decentralization, but key systems, like identity and content registries, are totally under Bluesky’s control. It’s not federated in the way ActivityPub is. The “decentralized” language coming from Bluesky advocates is theoretical at this point.
Jimmy G
2024-12-01 00:42:37 +0000 UTCI don't know how you can say this when there is and has always been a handheald that sells around 100 million units on the market. There is clearly a very large crowd that always goes for the handheld option even if they also have a console. Usually it's the one nintendo makes.
Ice Slice
2024-11-30 23:29:18 +0000 UTCThey are working on both games concurrently
Deathspank
2024-11-30 21:01:00 +0000 UTCCDPR actually announced they’ll do sequel to cyberpunk 2077 months ago already but that they’re working on Witcher 4 first.
Guatles
2024-11-30 20:23:09 +0000 UTCJapan is playing portable, Americans are playing docked. IMO
Robbie Agnew
2024-11-30 18:34:56 +0000 UTCBut the main reason why the Switch is massively successful is the fact that it’s portable. Japanese players love portable machines, I guarantee you most people are not playing it docked.
Michael McCoy
2024-11-30 18:05:50 +0000 UTCIt does seem like a first world problem but I would like a cool box.
Casey Anthony’s Hide and Seek Tips
2024-11-30 16:29:38 +0000 UTCIt’s silly and no big deal but Colin + Chris sleeping habits are the biggest “out of touch” part of the show lmao. Each their own obviously but it’s pretty funny.
Zack E
2024-11-30 16:14:14 +0000 UTCThat’s a lovely, lovely voice
Zack E
2024-11-30 16:08:27 +0000 UTCThat’s a hybrid machine. I mean a solely portable device. Not gunna cut it these days
Robbie Agnew
2024-11-30 15:49:35 +0000 UTCNeed a 1 on 1 with Shu someday. See if he’d actually do it after he leaves Sony.
NeO JD
2024-11-30 15:41:11 +0000 UTCSwitch?
NecrumOddBoy
2024-11-30 15:32:18 +0000 UTCPortable devices aren’t popular enough to be the focal point of a company anymore.
Robbie Agnew
2024-11-30 15:20:14 +0000 UTCYep, you have to use the pulse headset with it, which totally blows
ajwhite
2024-11-30 14:21:55 +0000 UTCSeems like I'm definitely in the minority here, but I don't really care about this unboxing experience that so many people care so much about. Like I understand that it's very lackluster in comparison to the Series X for example, but the amount of time the guys spend talking about this seems excessive lol. I completely understand presentation etc, but I'm buying the product at the end of the day, the packaging either goes in storage or is recycled. Again I realise I'm on my own here, but it really doesn't bother me personally Also surprised to hear Colin complain about the 30th anniversary product unboxing, I thought that was kind of cool, as they did something different with the OG style packaging, then all the images of the various playstation accessories on the inside. Granted I got the anniversary edge, which was in a sturdier box inside and also comes in a nicer package again with its own case etc. I can't speak for whats inside the normal Dualsense box
Deemac
2024-11-30 13:57:31 +0000 UTCThe chinese hate is getting a bit out of control imo. I get you dont like tencent but you make it sound like its working for nazi germany. Its hard to take your opinion seriously on the matter as the last time you went in depth about this you invited a literal CIA asset ( rand corp). I dont know, I dont care much about this one way or the other, it just come across as very cold war mentality
Pasqual Ribot
2024-11-30 10:58:21 +0000 UTCMaybe your best one yet.
JT
2024-11-30 03:41:59 +0000 UTCYuh, I think it’s the second best in the series
Martian Manfucker
2024-11-30 03:13:02 +0000 UTCCan't be the only one who read the title in Colin's Bane voice.
Gavin Kelly
2024-11-30 02:23:25 +0000 UTCConsidering how many flashbacks were in TloU 2, it wouldn't be surprising if Joel was in 3 by any means.
Cameron
2024-11-30 01:59:16 +0000 UTCColin-isms Slop Voice
Greta Thu’umberg HOW-DARE-YOUing Big Oil execs off a skyscraper
2024-11-30 01:40:15 +0000 UTCPortal ‘nothing wrong with it’… it doesn’t have Bluetooth!!
Matt
2024-11-30 00:13:14 +0000 UTCThe Chris Chan baby has already been debunked it was just a misinterpretation of his autismo rant. The anti-christ is not here just yet
Dylbun
2024-11-30 00:04:50 +0000 UTCIs Castlevania: Rondo of Blood pretty good?
Michael
2024-11-29 23:43:59 +0000 UTCIt’s where all the cuck anti trumpers are circle jerking eachother right now too
Scott
2024-11-29 23:34:43 +0000 UTCImagine 25 years from now Chrischan jr releases a touching documentary about their Father/Mother
Moistescarjoe
2024-11-29 21:37:08 +0000 UTCalso just had to fire up the video for this haha
Ryan Hayman
2024-11-29 21:16:03 +0000 UTCSony has me right where they want me. I’ve bought 9 different Dualsense controllers so far. They need to release the clear blue Dualsense now. Im definitely a little peeved though. They dropped the price of the chroma controllers two weeks after I bought the white one.
Michael Mashpotato
2024-11-29 21:04:04 +0000 UTCShuhei Yoshida is a 9/11 truther - he understands perfectly what transpired that day. The same group that is behind the takeover of Sony HQ ~5 years ago. The men with tiny hats. He fought them bravely, but he is only one man. Stellar Blade was his Trojan Horse, his final play to combat the rats running PlayStation. Buy Stellar Blade, fight the good fight, stand by Yoshida. Make gaming great again. Thank you Shuhei!
Rufián
2024-11-29 20:28:24 +0000 UTCAbout to set up my xmas lights to this. Very well done
Jay
2024-11-29 20:02:06 +0000 UTCI can’t believe these douchebags made me look at the video version to see their reactions to Chris Chans girlfriend.
Carlos
2024-11-29 19:42:22 +0000 UTCImagine your opinions being so unpopular you have to turn to heavy moderation and censorship to get them across without scrutiny
Katana Silver
2024-11-29 19:13:14 +0000 UTCOof, hard luck Colin. Finland isn't in Scandinavia, it's part of Fennoscandia.
David D
2024-11-29 19:07:31 +0000 UTCHe looks like a more masculine Andrea Rhodea too. It’s really just the haircut and facial hair though
Katana Silver
2024-11-29 19:07:26 +0000 UTCIt’s also a pedophile haven, add that to it as well.
The Rose Experience
2024-11-29 19:01:04 +0000 UTCIf we’re talking about people you look like, Colin I’ve always thought you looked just like Desmond Miles from Assassins Creed
Bogey
2024-11-29 18:57:26 +0000 UTCColin’s been waiting a long time to use this title
Tristan Kimball
2024-11-29 18:37:31 +0000 UTCThe Fire Rises!
Sam Dale
2024-11-29 18:37:21 +0000 UTCThe fantasy slop voice kills me every time 😂😂
Andre Ordonez
2024-11-29 18:22:35 +0000 UTCHey Gents, loved the bluesky conversation but one difference between Bluesky and most other social media platforms is that it is completely decentrazlied. It works a lot like an e-mail service and in the future other decentralized platforms can talk to each other. E.g. Gmail users can send e-mails to Hotmail etc. A Decentralized internet is a beautiful thing.
slick
2024-11-29 18:16:35 +0000 UTCHere's a life hack for you guys: If you go to bed at a reasonable time, getting up early is not a big deal. In fact, it's actually enjoyable.
Mike Held
2024-11-29 18:11:41 +0000 UTCChris is scarred for life now. 🤣
Cole Wallace
2024-11-29 18:09:17 +0000 UTCHeh chris isnt fooling anyone why he’s on Bluesky
CUMSoftware
2024-11-29 18:06:14 +0000 UTCMy order was placed and I’m all about an Outer Heaven militia, but I need to know everyone’s call signs. Perhaps Anxious Boston, Handsome Otaku, and Chris Rayboss?
Jayce Tamulevich
2024-11-29 17:46:42 +0000 UTCIt's not a sacred episode if it doesn't begin with Chris complaining about waking up at the time normal humans do
ajwhite
2024-11-29 17:24:30 +0000 UTCPerfect title for the episode, had to say it in the Bane voice or I’d be betraying myself lmao
Thomas Connolly
2024-11-29 17:08:32 +0000 UTCHappy thanksgiving!
Brandon Tyler
2024-11-29 17:06:34 +0000 UTCThank you to Dustin for reminding me to call the oil company so they can come do the yearly maintenance on our furnace.
Michael Mashpotato
2024-11-29 17:06:27 +0000 UTCYES BROTHER!!
Red Head Redemption
2024-11-29 17:05:34 +0000 UTC
