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Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

#291 | The Guillotine

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies, Games

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 242 minutes

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Summary

Our beloved games industry is currently mired in an economic crisis of its own creation. By rapidly expanding corporate headcounts during the pandemic -- and by foolishly forecasting 2020-era gaming habits would persist into future years -- many publishers and developers have found themselves dramatically overextended. In 2022, some 8,500 people lost their jobs in gaming; that number grew appreciably to 10,500 last year. Here in 2024, though? Not even a month into the calendar, we're sitting at around 6,000 job losses. And it's going to get way worse. How did pubs and devs get this so wrong? And how come the human cost falls upon the people who were hired, but not those that did the hiring? Plus: A reliable rumor indicates Until Dawn is PS5-and-PC-bound, Death Stranding 2's re-reveal may be right around the corner, Focus Entertainment foolishly rebrands itself, and more. Then: Let's wrap things up with listener inquiries, as usual. How do we balance multiple games at once? Could the harm leaks do to studios actually be overstated? Is paywalling New Game+ a step too far? When is the appropriate time in the day to shower? This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/symbols and get on your way to being your best self Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And the Greetings and salutations welcome back to Sacred Symbols, a PlayStation podcast. This is episode

0:20.7

number 291. My name is Colin Moriarty.

0:23.0

I'm joined as always by my son Chris Reagan in his Sega hat.

0:26.0

How are you today, my friend?

0:28.0

Good to see you. I'm doing well.

0:30.0

Doing well, you know, just chilling. It's very very nonchalant kind of day for me right now, you know.

0:36.6

Fair enough.

0:37.6

It's early yet for you, so.

0:38.6

Yes, yeah, it's just begun.

0:40.8

So things haven't yet developed for you in one way or the other. Good to see you here today, my friend. We missed you on Sacred Symbols Plus the other, or Sacred Symbols Cross Defining Duke. Yeah, the other day you were missed. Yeah, that was, that was a wild, uh, that was a wild, that was a wild morning.

0:55.0

Did you talk about any of that at all?

0:57.0

I don't want to get into it. It's just some medical stuff that...

1:01.0

His dick fell off. Yeah, my dick fell off.

1:04.0

He woke up in his dick was ten times smaller than he usually is and he had no idea.

1:09.0

Yeah, it was deeply shocking.

1:12.0

So. Well, good to have you back my friend

1:14.2

Dustin Furman, executive producer. Welcome to the show. How are you today?

1:16.8

Doing just fine. I did some walking on the treadmill today Colin.

1:23.4

Oh, good.

1:25.7

I'm trying to, you know, get those steps in.

1:28.5

Because I realized that is what I was missing.

1:31.0

It's doing the dieting right, kind of stalling out. I was like, man, probably

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