Sacred Symbols, Episode 265 | Total Mindshare
Added 2023-07-28 16:00:13 +0000 UTCAt 40 million units sold after 32 months, PlayStation 5 is only half-a-quarter behind PS4's prodigious sales pace. This is a big deal for a console that was launched into a pandemic economy that made it extremely difficult for people to find a machine for nearly two straight years, not to mention afford one, what with eroding purchasing power due to inflation. Now, the question becomes -- with Project Q and a PS5 Pro around the corner -- can PlayStation 5 continue its meteoric sales trend? Plus: Sony's investment into China continues to pay off, with a trio of new China Hero Games revealed for PlayStation 5, while it appears that Insomniac is making a third AAA game concurrent to Spider-Man 2 and Wolverine, which is mighty intriguing. We wrap up our recording, as we always do, with listener inquiries. What does the word "retro" mean in today's gaming environment? With recent happenings, is it high time we get a UFO abduction game? Will Sekiro go down as one of FromSoft's most-revered titles? Is Arizona about to disintegrate off the face of the Earth?
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:17:08 - Aliens
0:37:28 - Words of encouragement for the overheated
0:45:21 - Where does all the hair go?
0:50:46 - Drink more Old Fashioneds
0:51:37 - The PS5 is immune to wasps
0:55:01 - Did we hear back about LRG?
0:58:44 - New Spider-Man 2 PS5 items have been revealed
1:08:59 - Insomniac may be working on a new game
1:17:44 - Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has launched on PC
1:27:15 - New Armored Core footage has been released
1:34:59 - Tencent has purchased a majority stake in Techland
1:35:29 - CD Projekt has announced layoffs
1:36:11 - DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing and Nickelodeon All-Star Battle 2 have been revealed
1:44:06 - Ubisoft has canceled a sequel for Immortals: Fenyx Rising
1:48:29 - Is the FTC pushing facial recognition software?
1:55:12 - Castlevania: Nocturne is coming soon
1:58:55 - Capcom teases a massive game
2:05:10 - Somerville will come to PlayStation
2:09:21 - What have we been playing?
2:30:58 - PlayStation hardware is booming
3:17:25 - Sony is bringing more Chinese games to the world market
3:25:46 - New PlayStation Plus games have been announced
3:31:04 - Are fanboys hurting us?
3:48:28 - How do we define retro?
3:56:22 - When will we get a AAA survival horror UFO game?
4:03:03 - What are our thoughts on Sekiro?
4:11:21 - Do we remember The Tester?
4:14:43 - Will we get more mini consoles?
Comments
Good episode, listened to this while floating around in the pool. Good vibes
Robbie Cooper
2023-08-07 01:56:55 +0000 UTCColin’s belief in aliens shows that belief in the supernatural does not require the preponderance of supernatural evidence.
Zan McClelland
2023-08-04 20:22:22 +0000 UTCI’d argue Basket Case is definitely classic rock but not yet for American Idiot
Jason Hjartarson
2023-07-29 22:08:41 +0000 UTCKnowing aliens have been watching us for centuries and starting interacting with us more after the Atomic Bomb doesn't stop my mortgage being due on the 15th of every month. Show me pics or I don't care
James Hill
2023-07-29 20:37:05 +0000 UTCColin listen to the experts about climate. Wtf do you mean if you don't know if it's good or not. Jesus Christ
Ryan
2023-07-29 15:11:23 +0000 UTCWhen Colin brings up the fact US emissions are down he forgets to mention how for centuries the US has been polluting the earth and furthering climate change. The damage doesn’t go away because emissions are reduced now.
Kenneth Fox
2023-07-29 13:01:41 +0000 UTCI started Alan Wake remastered and dropped it after episode 2. The gameplay is so frustrating and janky, with a terrible camera. I have to think it was bad even for 2009, by today’s standards it’s awful. I’m going to watch a play through on YouTube because the story was intriguing, and I have to assume the sequel will be better. Control was great.
Rich Price
2023-07-29 12:57:43 +0000 UTCUnusual for Colin to ignore something like this. So many wrote in about the Dustin situation, yet it wasn't addressed. Clearly Colin saw the discourse. Wonder why he chose to push it under the rug.
Grant MacNamara
2023-07-29 08:20:05 +0000 UTCInteresting that Col didn’t bring up the “being mean to Dustin” situation considering how many people wrote in about it. As someone who’s PS5 is in my room, I’ve never clicked with the idea of playing a handheld in bed. And for Colin’s scenario, always comes off like he doesn’t want to buy another TV, which would not only solve that issue he has, but also Micah’s of never having access to the TV. 😄 I’d considering the 360 generation and before retro because getting some of those games is hard. Find a 360 and go to its marketplace, there’s so many games that you can’t even buy digitally anymore. Also, recently having tried to play early 360 games on Game Pass, some of them aren’t so visually appealing anymore. 😅
NeO JD
2023-07-29 08:02:55 +0000 UTCA gas smelling queen
Nathan R
2023-07-29 05:30:06 +0000 UTCI’ll leave this here. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=meNbh90DZJ0
Nathan R
2023-07-29 05:29:32 +0000 UTCThere’s this Twitter guy, unisensei and for some reason he keeps popping up on my Twitter feed- I don’t know why, his content is, as Dustin correctly pointed out, bottom feeding…I’m curious like Colin, what is the deal with his life, general outlook, who hurt him?!
Andy T
2023-07-29 04:53:13 +0000 UTCThe first five minutes of this podcast are gold 😂
The Devmeister
2023-07-29 02:26:15 +0000 UTCI love the spiderman 2 plates design
Angel DeJesus
2023-07-29 01:41:47 +0000 UTCYou were talking about jumping and sekiro, I put in FF16 as a nomination for worse jump in a game, I don’t mean while your battling just in exploration. Does anyone remember any other games with useless jumps?
Michael Thew
2023-07-29 00:41:12 +0000 UTCLol the US is a joke, who can even fall for this alien BS. They are trying to divert attention for sure, what a farse
Pasqual Ribot
2023-07-28 22:05:04 +0000 UTCFor the Capcom game predicted to sell millions, what about Dragon’s Dogma 2? Isn’t that due soon?
Jeffery Carlson
2023-07-28 22:01:08 +0000 UTCJust to be clear about project Q, you don’t have to be near your ps5 to remote play. You can access remote play anywhere you have Wi-Fi. So hotel rooms, your work office, friends house, etc. as long as your ps5 is in rest mode and not turned off.
Bogey Zero
2023-07-28 20:56:44 +0000 UTCAliens are just demons, 'UFOs and alien phenomenon' has been documented for ages. The almost total lack of physical evidence makes these investigations an examination of psychological phenomena of the reporters, rather than a physical investigation. The presidents son is having intercourse with underage prostitutes and smoking crack while driving at a 172MPH in a new Porsche and it's documented in photos and video. Sci-Fi is Gen X and millennial mind poison, much like tik tok is mind poison for kids today. Aliens r fake n cringe sorry dont @ me.
Theotokos Respecter
2023-07-28 20:41:22 +0000 UTCCorrection: Ratchet can run totally fine on a HDD, but you need extra RAM to help load the assets. There’s plenty of videos online of it running at 4K/60 on a HDD. This game probably couldn’t run on a HDD with components similar to a PS4 though, as seen from DF.
Zachary Abell
2023-07-28 20:35:39 +0000 UTCGuys... Hair is an organic material that breaks down over time. That's why skeletons exist with no skin or hair. Come on guys... Shame on whoever asked that stupid question.
Jason
2023-07-28 19:49:59 +0000 UTCImmortals Fenyx Rising answers the age old question of “if Breath of the Wild wasn’t a Zelda game would it be a 7”? And yes… yes it would
Joshua Jones
2023-07-28 18:41:31 +0000 UTCI just want to know...when the Aliens come to take us away to our home planet of FlaflooGa do you think they'll let us take our Playstations???
Kevin Padua
2023-07-28 18:26:17 +0000 UTCWily Wars was done by retro bit. Your safe buying that. Originally limited run helped distribute but you could have bought it from lrg or directly from retro bit.
Trapgunner
2023-07-28 18:17:01 +0000 UTCDustin, is Dark Souls II worth a playthrough today or does it suck?
Michael
2023-07-28 17:44:16 +0000 UTCIt’s hilarious how quick a Colin is to call out virtue signaling from people he disagrees with but, he can’t see that he’s doing it with Limited Run Games
Joshua Jones
2023-07-28 17:42:51 +0000 UTC
