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Over 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 - Intro0:27:35 - Chris Chan's spawn0:35:10 - Bluesky0:55:19 - Sacred celebrity look-alikes0:56:44 - Fantasy nerd slop voice0:59:47 - PS5 selling faster than PS11:02:26 - Alan Wake corrections1:04:35 - Updated PS2 sales numbers1:10:17 - Troy Baker is in Naughty Dog's next game1:20:43 - My First Gran Turismo1:24:03 - Helldivers 2 Controller incoming1:32:18 - Dino Crisis and RE: Directors Cut can be bought a la carte1:34:49 - Cyberpunk 2077 surpasses 30 million, Witcher 4 is in production1:37:34 - What Are We Playing?2:19:39 - PlayStation is working on a new handheld2:40:32 - Kadokawa updates2:54:45 - Shuhei Yoshida is leaving PlayStation3:17:48 - New PS Plus games coming3:26:10 - Gaming mission statements for 20253:35:29 - Gaming needs new markets to grow3:42:04 - What does being "sweaty" mean?3:47:41 - AI gaming companies

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Michael Mashpotato

Thank you to Dustin for reminding me to call the oil company so they can come do the yearly maintenance on our furnace.

Thomas Connolly

Perfect title for the episode, had to say it in the Bane voice or I’d be betraying myself lmao

AJWhite

It's not a sacred episode if it doesn't begin with Chris complaining about waking up at the time normal humans do

Jayce Tamulevich

My 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?

Mr Sir

Heh chris isnt fooling anyone why he’s on Bluesky

Cole Wallace

Chris is scarred for life now. 🤣

Black Detective in Dexter

Here'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.

Plumber Boy Mustache Man

Hey 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.

Andre Ordonez

The fantasy slop voice kills me every time 😂😂

Sam Dale

The Fire Rises!

Tristan Kimball

Colin’s been waiting a long time to use this title

Bogey

If we’re talking about people you look like, Colin I’ve always thought you looked just like Desmond Miles from Assassins Creed

David D

Oof, hard luck Colin. Finland isn't in Scandinavia, it's part of Fennoscandia.

Carlos

I can’t believe these douchebags made me look at the video version to see their reactions to Chris Chans girlfriend.

Jay

About to set up my xmas lights to this. Very well done

Rufián

Shuhei 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!

Michael Mashpotato

Sony 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.

Moistescarjoe

Imagine 25 years from now Chrischan jr releases a touching documentary about their Father/Mother

Michael

Is Castlevania: Rondo of Blood pretty good?

Dylbun

The Chris Chan baby has already been debunked it was just a misinterpretation of his autismo rant. The anti-christ is not here just yet

Matt Wiles

Portal ‘nothing wrong with it’… it doesn’t have Bluetooth!!

Lunar Tear

Considering how many flashbacks were in TloU 2, it wouldn't be surprising if Joel was in 3 by any means.

Gavin Kelly

Can't be the only one who read the title in Colin's Bane voice.

Pasqual Ribot

The 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

Deemac

Seems 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

Robbie Agnew

Portable devices aren’t popular enough to be the focal point of a company anymore.

NeO JD

Need a 1 on 1 with Shu someday. See if he’d actually do it after he leaves Sony.

Zack E

That’s a lovely, lovely voice

Guatles

CDPR actually announced they’ll do sequel to cyberpunk 2077 months ago already but that they’re working on Witcher 4 first.

Joseph Gedgaudas

Everyone keeps saying how terrifying Silent Hill 2 Remake is, but I found it more humorous than scary.

kunsam

Ackshully.... 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

Dustin 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.

Baden Ronie

Inn 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.

[ Enrique ]

32:23 lmao chris saying no like spiderman.

Glen Yelenovic

I 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

mattyboy316

Shuhei yoshida on a future sacred plus episode? 🤔

Kevin Cooper

RE: 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.

Dennis

Bluesky 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.

Bartevious

Haven’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.

Germanos

I 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.

Cornelius

Twitter 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

Jack

If Elon is a top D4 player, he is either lying about that or how hard/long he works

Marco Maluf

Shuhei is a legend! All the best to him always!