Yeah, it’s pretty silly to pretend he didn’t get functionally demoted. If you’re a co-leader with another employee and then that co-leader becomes the sole leader and you get moved to report to them now, well then you got demoted, no two ways around it.
@@NoonDragoon He's still CEO of the studio business group. Just the hardware guy got the promotion to replace Totoki as he moves back towards Sony Corp. Not that difficult.
TIMESTAMPS: 0:00: Intro 10:48: PS Plus Essential Lineup for February 2025, PS4 Games Will No Longer Be a Key Benefit for PS Plus Beginning in 2026 13:28: New PS5 Software Update Temporarily Removes 30th Anniversary Themes 19:48: PSN Login on Steam Becoming Optional for Some Games 21:30: Spider Man 2 PC Launch Could Be Better 23:00: RUMOR: Gran Turismo 7 and Demon’s Souls PC Ports Cancelled 27:38: NCSoft Horizon MMO Not Cancelled 29:38: Bungie Devs Wanted to Return to Single Player Projects But Was Shut Down By Leadership 32:47: Sony/SIE Leadership Changes 54:00: Insomniac CEO Ted Price Retiring After 30 Years 57:30: Insomniac Still Not Ready To Talk Wolverine Yet 58:48: RUMOR: New State of Play Coming During The Week of Valentine’s Day 1:12:43: Forza Horizon 5 Coming to PS5 in Spring 2025; Microsoft Further Doubles Down on Multiplatform Strategy 1:30:06: Helldivers 2 Creative Director on Sabbatical 1:31:40: RUMOR: Next God of War Set in Egyptian Mythology 1:46:36: Sumo Digital Cancels New IP, Will Develop Exclusively for Partners Going Foward 1:47:47: Multiple Bloodborne Fan Projects Hit With DMCA Takedowns From Sony 1:52:24: New Phantom Blade Zero Gameplay Trailer 1:55:24: Final Fantasy Remake Part 3 Development Update, Will Not Be Next Gen Exclusive 2:01:56: Former PS Boss Shawn Layden Thinks PS6 Will Still Support Optical Discs 2:12:21: Shuhei Yoshida on Competition, PS3 Regrets 2:16:39: PS Productions Reportedly Involved In New Resident Evil Movie Project 2:17:58: TLOU Season 2 Update 2:22:25: Patreon Questions 2:35:26: PSX Gonna Give It To Ya 2:45:03: Outro
Y'all miss everything. Holy shit. Nashino and Hulst both reported to Totoki. It was in the first press release. Totoki got promoted. Nashino got promoted but is still CEO of Platform (until they name someone new) Read the press releases. Jim Ryan bought Firewalk, not Hulst. If you want to report news, use facts.
Totoki thinking PC doesn't effect PS proves he doesn't know how to make money only manage it to me. He doesn't understand how exclusivity strengthens brand power making more money in the long run. Short term gain for long term pain is how loan sharks and people who are there to make money at the detriment of the business operate, not proper business and investors.
CEOs tend to think one thing and say another Him saying that it doesn’t affect PS may literally just be to quell investors concerns… Because that’s a lot easier to hear than the truth, they need to improve profit margins.
36:50 I summarize this as Ryan stating he’s “cautious” that a numbers guys is leading SIE, that could mean 2 things: multiplatform and/or layoffs, cuts
It was $400 million and Sony spent something above $200 million but who cares? Giant corp loses money big deal, as long as they continue making games we want in the future
Concord was more likely dirt cheap for PS. A studio without a proven I.P is just a collection of employees with no value beyond their basic salary. The equipment and building they reside in. Where would excess the costs come from? Concord was more of a social embarrassment than a financial loss.
Since Microsoft is bringing over their games to PlayStation. I wonder if they'll bring over older games. Games like Infinite Undiscovery, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Fable franchise, Ninja Blade, ect..
I don’t mind PS5 not having themes.. I just can’t stand when they fill the screen with a random screenshot (instead of the game art) the welcome page has been enough for me they just need to add more dynamic backgrounds
Aside from death stranding 2, my most anticipated games this year are doom the dark ages, Indiana Jones and forza horizon 5. I guess yeah, my ps5 is an xbox 😅
Just because Helldivers 2 is rhe only day one pc port Sony has done, doesn't mean they are half hearted or unsure of their strategy. Maybe timed exclusivity IS the long term strategy. I'd be fine with that. Makes sense to give people an incentive to buy Sony consoles.
Live service games should be released on console and pc day 1, the whole point is to get as many people into the game as possible. Singleplayer games, not so much. There’s a lot of people that will go out and buy a PlayStation for the right game if it’s exclusive for a year and Sony can then double dip on pc with a shoddy port. Not to mention unfortunately a lot of pc players like to pirate games the second they’re out
It was a big waste of money, but sometimes that's what corpos need to get the point. I'm glad they shit canned a bunch of the live service games and the guys responsible for them(I know Herman is still there but he's not THE guy). Cut the losses, move those studios onto something that stands a chance of being something people would actually want to play, and stop firing hundreds and thousands of hardworking people because of c-suite decisions.
Jon needs to level up combat skills in KCD2. I'm 2 shotting enemies now and feel very responsive. It's so frustrating early game, though, as you simply can't button mash to defeat enemeis.... at all!
Its bad enough john and nate doing the PS part 2 pod even though they claim it as an xbox podcast. Ryan can barely contain his Hatred if you even question concord ffs.
The cross generation talk gets overblown. I assumed PS podcasters knew PS only supported cross generation for 2 years. We should expect cross generation games on PS6 until 2030 with a release date of 2028 PS6.
1. If there was toxic development around concord and it was “Hermen’s baby,” why has not a single dev spoken to say Jason Schrier about it? I mean Hermen closed the studio over 5 months ago now… yet nothing? Wonder why ;) 2. PS did not lose money on concord or any LS project cause PS has been profitable every single quarter this entire generation. But there is also no conceivable way Comcord could have cost more than $150m total. HFW cost $220m, had 1500 more devs work on it(according to mobygames) HFW also had full voice acting and mo-cap, concord had very minimal voice acting and no mo-cap. And now to touch on this fear that Totoki will force SIE to shift to day and date with PC for single player.. you realize how much money they would lose? MS has already proven that day and date with PC does nothing for sales. All it does is pushes your user base, who sub to PSPlus, buy accessories, buy 3rd party games… it pushes them to go all in on PC and spend none of that extra money in the ps ecosystem… all for what? Maybe 500k extra sales at launch? If a game releases a year or 2 later on PC it is still a new game for them, why would that effect sales on pc?? All it may potentially do is have someone on pc buy a ps cause they don’t want to wait
Just because Sony is profitable doesn't mean they didn't lose money on a cancelled game, it just means they made more than they lost. If they made Concord for $150 mil and it gets cancelled so they made $0 from it then that is $150 mil they spent with no return. Therefore, they lost money on Concord.
Games taking almost an entire generation to release is also a reason for price increase garbage . Ive said it before and ill say again, this generation will be my last in gaming. After Nintendos upcoming new generation i am done with gaming. Beyond Astrobot and Baldurs gate 3 and Stellar blade, this generation has been the worst yet. Ill hold onto what i have for as long as possible. Then i will just find another less expensive hobby. Im sick of this bullsh*t. Plus the rise of digital rental services, yes rental. Thats all digital is. I refuse to pay for anything i cant guarantee to truly own. These corporations can get f*cking bent.
Not interested in another DEI resident evil woke peice of crap. I want characters to look and behave like their original versions. Sick of Hollywoods forced woke crap!
He didn't get demoted, it's just that everybody else around him got promoted except him...
Pretty much lmao
Yeah, it’s pretty silly to pretend he didn’t get functionally demoted. If you’re a co-leader with another employee and then that co-leader becomes the sole leader and you get moved to report to them now, well then you got demoted, no two ways around it.
@@NoonDragoon He's still CEO of the studio business group. Just the hardware guy got the promotion to replace Totoki as he moves back towards Sony Corp. Not that difficult.
His already impressive tan got promoted and upgraded though.
They just laid off more people at PlayStation.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00: Intro
10:48: PS Plus Essential Lineup for February 2025, PS4 Games Will No Longer Be a Key Benefit for PS Plus Beginning in 2026
13:28: New PS5 Software Update Temporarily Removes 30th Anniversary Themes
19:48: PSN Login on Steam Becoming Optional for Some Games
21:30: Spider Man 2 PC Launch Could Be Better
23:00: RUMOR: Gran Turismo 7 and Demon’s Souls PC Ports Cancelled
27:38: NCSoft Horizon MMO Not Cancelled
29:38: Bungie Devs Wanted to Return to Single Player Projects But Was Shut Down By Leadership
32:47: Sony/SIE Leadership Changes
54:00: Insomniac CEO Ted Price Retiring After 30 Years
57:30: Insomniac Still Not Ready To Talk Wolverine Yet
58:48: RUMOR: New State of Play Coming During The Week of Valentine’s Day
1:12:43: Forza Horizon 5 Coming to PS5 in Spring 2025; Microsoft Further Doubles Down on Multiplatform Strategy
1:30:06: Helldivers 2 Creative Director on Sabbatical
1:31:40: RUMOR: Next God of War Set in Egyptian Mythology
1:46:36: Sumo Digital Cancels New IP, Will Develop Exclusively for Partners Going Foward
1:47:47: Multiple Bloodborne Fan Projects Hit With DMCA Takedowns From Sony
1:52:24: New Phantom Blade Zero Gameplay Trailer
1:55:24: Final Fantasy Remake Part 3 Development Update, Will Not Be Next Gen Exclusive
2:01:56: Former PS Boss Shawn Layden Thinks PS6 Will Still Support Optical Discs
2:12:21: Shuhei Yoshida on Competition, PS3 Regrets
2:16:39: PS Productions Reportedly Involved In New Resident Evil Movie Project
2:17:58: TLOU Season 2 Update
2:22:25: Patreon Questions
2:35:26: PSX Gonna Give It To Ya
2:45:03: Outro
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Hope he pays you for doing his job bro
You sir are doing gods work
Ryan doing the podcast in the Pulse 3D headset is so fitting
Those are the new ones, Pulse Elite
Give me steel series over those overpriced cans any day of the week. Pulse are so flimsy, and the speakers are crap comparatively.
STOP IT. THE PS6 IS 2028.
WE JUST GOT THE PRO IN 2024.
Plans change...
The ps5 pro Will be good for a good Well
I have no problem with Alloy.
You can count on Ryan with spinning the Sony CEO situation into something else.
Y'all miss everything. Holy shit. Nashino and Hulst both reported to Totoki. It was in the first press release. Totoki got promoted. Nashino got promoted but is still CEO of Platform (until they name someone new) Read the press releases.
Jim Ryan bought Firewalk, not Hulst. If you want to report news, use facts.
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Totoki thinking PC doesn't effect PS proves he doesn't know how to make money only manage it to me. He doesn't understand how exclusivity strengthens brand power making more money in the long run. Short term gain for long term pain is how loan sharks and people who are there to make money at the detriment of the business operate, not proper business and investors.
CEOs tend to think one thing and say another
Him saying that it doesn’t affect PS may literally just be to quell investors concerns… Because that’s a lot easier to hear than the truth, they need to improve profit margins.
FF7PT3 better f*cking run well on base ps5! Im not paying for digital only pro and slim just for that!!!!😡😡😡
36:50 I summarize this as Ryan stating he’s “cautious” that a numbers guys is leading SIE, that could mean 2 things: multiplatform and/or layoffs, cuts
Listening to state of play discussion while PSN is down hits different 😂
14:45 ME I'M THAT PERSON 😭 (PS4 was my first PlayStation console lol)
1:10:20 MGS Delta's release date leaked and its August
I enjoyed The Tester at the time lol. Also before then Christina Lee who did Pulse which was nice. Qore was also cool at the time
They did those reduced plastic cases for movies.
Remember Concord cost $600 Million
400k
@@MojaveKnight17 according to rummors
It was $400 million and Sony spent something above $200 million but who cares? Giant corp loses money big deal, as long as they continue making games we want in the future
@@nightseye9 But Sony may have also paid 9 figures to acquire the studio. So it might have been +300 million....
Concord was more likely dirt cheap for PS. A studio without a proven I.P is just a collection of employees with no value beyond their basic salary. The equipment and building they reside in. Where would excess the costs come from? Concord was more of a social embarrassment than a financial loss.
Since Microsoft is bringing over their games to PlayStation. I wonder if they'll bring over older games. Games like Infinite Undiscovery, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Fable franchise, Ninja Blade, ect..
Great show today guys.
I don’t mind PS5 not having themes.. I just can’t stand when they fill the screen with a random screenshot (instead of the game art) the welcome page has been enough for me they just need to add more dynamic backgrounds
Great pod guys
Aside from death stranding 2, my most anticipated games this year are doom the dark ages, Indiana Jones and forza horizon 5. I guess yeah, my ps5 is an xbox 😅
Just because Helldivers 2 is rhe only day one pc port Sony has done, doesn't mean they are half hearted or unsure of their strategy. Maybe timed exclusivity IS the long term strategy. I'd be fine with that. Makes sense to give people an incentive to buy Sony consoles.
Live service games should be released on console and pc day 1, the whole point is to get as many people into the game as possible. Singleplayer games, not so much. There’s a lot of people that will go out and buy a PlayStation for the right game if it’s exclusive for a year and Sony can then double dip on pc with a shoddy port. Not to mention unfortunately a lot of pc players like to pirate games the second they’re out
@nightseye9 I agree live service should be day one.
PS3 had a lot of great PS2 HD ports, thats where I got to play SOTC & ICO, Sly Cooper collection, DB Budokai and Tomb Raider Trilogy
When he says intermission, I'm assuming he means intergrade
INTERmission is the name of the DLC, so just Yuffies campaign, Integrade is the name of the remake with INTERmission... So who knows what he meant 😂😂
@justajoshy ah ok. I haven't played either lol. So he probably was talking about the dlc.
@@Throwbackrewatchyes dlc yuffie isn’t in the base game
I’ve never seen someone get a demotion while still keeping the same position before… ouch
Why are there no timestamps for these?
PlayStation has always been a great company. Memorable games. It does feel like Xbox is starting to do some great things also.
It was a big waste of money, but sometimes that's what corpos need to get the point. I'm glad they shit canned a bunch of the live service games and the guys responsible for them(I know Herman is still there but he's not THE guy). Cut the losses, move those studios onto something that stands a chance of being something people would actually want to play, and stop firing hundreds and thousands of hardworking people because of c-suite decisions.
This is a great show.
the only names better than Will Powers is Austin Powers and Max Power(aka Homer Simpson)
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Man this podcast gets looonger and looooooonger every time😂
Jon needs to level up combat skills in KCD2. I'm 2 shotting enemies now and feel very responsive. It's so frustrating early game, though, as you simply can't button mash to defeat enemeis.... at all!
What a great time to build that PC
The way Microsoft be rolling... you may end up combining MS/PS into one podcast lol
Its bad enough john and nate doing the PS part 2 pod even though they claim it as an xbox podcast. Ryan can barely contain his Hatred if you even question concord ffs.
May as well… Lord knows Sony isn’t publishing any games worth talking about anytime soon 😂😂😂
The cross generation talk gets overblown. I assumed PS podcasters knew PS only supported cross generation for 2 years. We should expect cross generation games on PS6 until 2030 with a release date of 2028 PS6.
1. If there was toxic development around concord and it was “Hermen’s baby,” why has not a single dev spoken to say Jason Schrier about it? I mean Hermen closed the studio over 5 months ago now… yet nothing? Wonder why ;)
2. PS did not lose money on concord or any LS project cause PS has been profitable every single quarter this entire generation. But there is also no conceivable way Comcord could have cost more than $150m total. HFW cost $220m, had 1500 more devs work on it(according to mobygames) HFW also had full voice acting and mo-cap, concord had very minimal voice acting and no mo-cap.
And now to touch on this fear that Totoki will force SIE to shift to day and date with PC for single player.. you realize how much money they would lose? MS has already proven that day and date with PC does nothing for sales. All it does is pushes your user base, who sub to PSPlus, buy accessories, buy 3rd party games… it pushes them to go all in on PC and spend none of that extra money in the ps ecosystem… all for what? Maybe 500k extra sales at launch? If a game releases a year or 2 later on PC it is still a new game for them, why would that effect sales on pc?? All it may potentially do is have someone on pc buy a ps cause they don’t want to wait
Just because Sony is profitable doesn't mean they didn't lose money on a cancelled game, it just means they made more than they lost. If they made Concord for $150 mil and it gets cancelled so they made $0 from it then that is $150 mil they spent with no return. Therefore, they lost money on Concord.
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Games taking almost an entire generation to release is also a reason for price increase garbage . Ive said it before and ill say again, this generation will be my last in gaming. After Nintendos upcoming new generation i am done with gaming. Beyond Astrobot and Baldurs gate 3 and Stellar blade, this generation has been the worst yet. Ill hold onto what i have for as long as possible. Then i will just find another less expensive hobby. Im sick of this bullsh*t. Plus the rise of digital rental services, yes rental. Thats all digital is. I refuse to pay for anything i cant guarantee to truly own. These corporations can get f*cking bent.
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Finally Herman Hulst got demoted Sony gotta stop these games like Horizon and Concord 😹😹
Nothing wrong with the Horizon games we’ve gotten besides Alloy anyway. But no I don’t want to see anymore either
@@nightseye9 once we leave Alloy and some agendas behind I’ll start to like the franchise. Cause can’t lie the environment and setting is cool.
Imma be real, I don’t think we’re gonna see it. Not because of the reception, but because there’s a crash coming. AAA crash.
I’m glad I checked me phone!
Greetings, beautiful gentlemen
Lay-offs are inevitable nowadays for these studios. They're too bloated.
You are a Corporate Shill. You will always defend Sony no matter what exploiting policy they implement.
Amateur podcast, ya'll are so boring.
He deserves to be fired. For concord
John PLEASE I’m BEGGING YOU STOP smacking your lips every time you speak
Not interested in another DEI resident evil woke peice of crap. I want characters to look and behave like their original versions. Sick of Hollywoods forced woke crap!