#259 | Things Have Changed Like A Decade

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies, Games

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 284 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In another legendary Colin Was Right moment, Embracer Group has officially broadcast an SOS. The mega-publisher is in significant debt and severely overleveraged, with 17,000 mouths to feed over 131 studios making something like 250 games. But few of its products matter, it can't release enough quality fare to draw the requisite income to sustain its Ubisoft-sized headcount, and its products inevitably compete with each other, too. Embracer was always an absurd proposition, one that almost no one made a peep about while its teetering tower was built ever-higher. Let's discuss their future, one markedly different from the one they planned just a few years ago. We also take the time to get deep into this week's other news, as there are a lot of announcements emerging from various showcases. Star Wars: Outlaws, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Persona 3 Reload, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, and Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth are just some of the upcoming titles we touch on, as well sharing lots of thoughts about Final Fantasy XVI's well-received demo, and listener inquiries on topics like the arcade ticket economy, the perfect game length, and Last Stand licensing its content to a big media company. Plus: Can we get Boar's Head to sponsor this show? Probably not, as it turns out. Thanks to our sponsors! Get a free 1-year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs at https://www.athleticgreens.com/sacred Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Sacred Symbols is sponsored by Athletic Greens in their exceptional AG1 supplement,
0:04.1	unless then a minute each day. You can do something really healthy for yourself by drinking a
0:08.1	glass of Athletic Greens, so why not give it a go for yourself and see what AG1 can do for you?
0:13.1	If you're looking for an easier way to take supplements, Athletic Greens is giving you a free
0:16.8	one-year supply of Vitamin D and five free travel packs of AG1 with your first purchase.
0:21.6	Go to Athletic Greens.com slash sacred. That's ATH-L-E-T-I-C-G-R-E-E-N-S.com slash S-A-C-R-E-D.
0:28.9	Again, that's Athletic Greens.com slash sacred for Athletic Greens powerful and healthy AG1 supplement.
0:34.6	Check it out. Sacred Symbols, a PlayStation podcast, is brought to you by, well, you.
0:40.0	If you want to learn how to support our show, go to patreon.com slash last stand media.
0:59.4	Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Sacred Symbols, a PlayStation podcast. This is episode
1:06.0	number 259. God, that's crazy. My name is Kyle Moriardium-Joyne. As always,
1:12.4	are most of the time by my son Chris Reagan. Chris, how are you today? You're back in
1:17.2	New York by the looks of things, so it is one o'clock in the afternoon for you instead of 10 AM.
1:21.5	That's exciting. Yeah. Welcome back to the show. How are you today, my friend?
1:25.4	I'm good. I'm good. It was weird missing the show last week specifically because of the weird
1:33.2	ethereal nature of why. I was getting so many videos of people, like in Manhattan being like,
1:38.7	it looks like fucking blade road around here and then I landed and it completely screwed my
1:43.7	flight up and then by the time I landed, it was just gone. So I was kind of underwhelmed.
1:48.1	I was kind of hoping to land in this, you know, I got like a gas mask and everything.
1:54.4	And for no reason. It's a cool prop I have now, I guess, but it's a shame. Dude, I love
2:00.4	gas masks for Halloween. For my senior year, I wore my dad's FDNY gas mask. I just wore
2:06.8	like psychomantis. And I was told to take it off because people like that was it right after 9-11
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Last Stand Media & Studio71, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Last Stand Media & Studio71 and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.