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

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.

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Avi

New patron here so I’m catching up on some older episodes of Sacred Symbols+. Didn’t realize Gio worked on the MTV Spider-Man animated series. It was a pretty cool and edgy show that had Neil Patrick Harris as Spider-Man. Not my favorite Spider-Man cartoon but one I enjoyed. Pretty cool how wide-spanning Goo’s career is. Great episode!

DrKen

This was a fantastic interview. Loved the conversation. And I really wanna know what these ex playstation personas like Gio, David Jaffe, John Garvin and others think of our lord and saviour Jim Ryan's era of Playsataion. Is PS too businessy now or is it still on the right track. Im very intrigued by that notion.

Chelsea

As someone who is working through the vita catalogue, I would love to see you and potentially a guest do a 15-20 must play vita games ps+ episode. Very exited to listen to this one!

Anonymous

Good to see Gio again. 2011-2017 was peak Sony.

Jordan Falduto

It only just hit me when the two questions about quality control and subscriptions were read back to back. In a way, the subscriptions ARE the quality control. Your ramshackle game can go on our marketplace and be in the spotlight for a week or so and then it's gone. BUT, if it hits PS Extra we're going to vet it, we're going to essentially sell your games in one fell swoop with a financial deal, spotlight it for weeks on our social platforms, and IGN is even going to write an article about it coming to our service. THIS is the new Nintendo seal of quality. Sure, not all quality games will make it to the service (especially triple A), but I know when I play a Game Pass game it's going to be of a certain caliber, even if it's not my style. Hopefully I remember to put this on next week SS' thread because I'd love to hear the boy's thoughts...

LastStandMedia

I dunno, I think the exact opposite, personally. Quality is frankly not that high on Gamepass. There are some great games, but what is the mean Metacritic score?

Dion Collier

Bro... SS+ just keeps poppin off with bangers. Def best Patreon membership out there. Keep it going!

Blake Wall

I remember being really excited for the Vita and feeling really confused that no one I knew had any interest but I am one of the few people who can say the death of the Vita wasn't my fault because I pre-ordered it the Christmas before it came out I have been buying games for it since the beginning also I bought another Vita because I ran my original into the ground also I tried my best to tell people how great it was and I did convince some people

P Wolly

Yeah Gio! Great episode. Please come back to talk with us again!

Blake Wall

What was the good new he was congratulating you on I must have missed that?

Blake Wall

Oh I am surprised I missed that & congratulations

Wade Says

I still play my Vita to this day. Nothing like it.