A Very Stupid Arms Race | Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast Episode 186
1,314Microsoft -- as it's wont to do -- just went and spent a bunch of money on a publisher. But this is no ordinary publisher or forgettable amount of money: By buying Activision-Blizzard for a record $68.7 billion, Xbox now controls some of the industry's most vital IP and studios, including the king of them all, Call of Duty, and its constellation of developers, including Infinity Ward and Treyarch. Yet, Microsoft's bullish move will likely set off an even-further damaging series of mergers and acquisitions that remove risk for certainty and eliminates creativity for volume. It amounts to a very stupid arms race that everyone else will be compelled to compete in, whether they want to or not, and there's only one entity to blame. Then: Release dates for Ghostwire Tokyo, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, and WWE 2K22 have emerged, God of War does big numbers on PC, Sony renews trademarks related to defunct first party team Psygnosis, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! What's our temperature on Horizon: Forbidden West less than a month away from launch? Are we not keeping an open enough mind when it comes to the possibilities of gaming NFTs? Will Sony botch the little things that could make Project Spartacus shine? Is David Jaffe more attractive than Colin Moriarty?
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Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:05:57 - Would we rather shit everytime we fart or puke everytime we burp?
0:08:03 - Is David Jaffe more attractive than Colin Moriarty?
0:09:02 - PlayStation Wrap-Up for 2021 is now available.
0:10:17 - Sony has reiterated that God of War will be released in 2022.
0:11:52 - The Cuphead Netflix series will begin in February.
0:14:27 - Shenmue anime is coming to Adult Swim and Crunchyroll
0:17:39 - New details have been leaked about Respawn’s AAA game.
0:24:16 - Troy Baker said something about NFTs and got dumped on.
0:34:50 - An Uncharted LEGO set is rumored.
0:38:49 - HBO’s The Last of Us has cast Storm Reid as Riley.
0:41:00 - What have we been playing?
0:48:37 - Microsoft has purchased Activision.
2:29:44 - Ghostwire Tokyo may be coming sooner than we expected.
2:32:26 - LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Story will be released on April 5th.
2:37:44 - WWE 2K22 will be released on March 8th.
2:38:33 - The PC version of God of War (2018) is putting up big numbers.
2:42:13 - PlayStation 3 games have begun appearing on PlayStation 5.
2:43:49 - Sony has moved to rescue their trademarks for Psygnosis.
2:45:43 - Yakuza’s creator may be working with Netease.
2:48:37 - Techland plans to support Dying Light 2 with at least five years of support.
2:54:01 - The December NPD numbers have arrived.
2:55:54 - News Wrap-Up
2:56:45 - Will Elden Ring’s release rekindle the difficulty debate?
2:59:16 - Could NFTs and video games have a solid relationship?
3:05:28 - Will Spartacus include frame rate and resolution boosts?
3:11:52 - Horizon Forbidden West gut check?
3:15:33 - Is it worth it to play Uncharted 4 if you haven’t played the others?
3:19:37 - If we could only choose Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, or Dying Light 2, what would win?