Sacred Symbols+, Episode 208 | Gushing About Vita (and More!) With Gio Corsi (Patreon)

Please welcome my (Colin's) good friend Gio Corsi to the show. Most of you know Mr. Corsi full-well -- he spent more than six years as an executive at PlayStation, particularly during the latter PS3/Vita era and into and through most of the PS4 generation -- and you saw him on-stage at events, in videos, giving interviews, and more. In 2019, Gio left Sony to go to second-party partner Illfonic, but I wanted to bring him on the show not to talk about the future, but instead the past. We focus on Vita, which he helped shepherd at Sony from a software perspective, and we long for the days of Sony's handhelds. We also talk about other things: The nature of first, second, and third party games, what it's like being an industry personality, the fight over storefront quality-control, and more. And yes: I ask him about my recent obsession, game subscriptions. He doesn't agree with me. Please enjoy.