#387 | Price You Gotta Pay When You Break the Panorama

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies, Games

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 231 minutes

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Summary

Two months ago, a now-fired Sucker Punch developer lost her job due to an ill-timed social media post, and she's been fairly quiet ever since, at least until now. In a new article, artist Drew Harrison talks about what befell her, but -- truth be told -- she seems to have missed the biggest part of her own story: How much she could have (and did) harm the hundreds of other people that worked for years on Ghost of Yotei, only to disrupt the entire marketing roll-out of the game on the precipice of its hyped release. Let's revisit the situation with new context and insights, and see if we can make sense of whether her dismissal was fair, unfair, or perhaps just the product of the environment many industry professionals gleefully cheered on when the shoe was on the other foot. Plus: Death Stranding 2 gets an ESRB rating for a PC release, PlayStation 3 emulation is actively being worked on outside of Sony's walls, Stellar Blade 2 is abandoning PlayStation as its publishing partner, RAM price spikes threaten the future of console pricing, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! Did Sony's recent update to PlayStation Portal ruin the functionality of the PS button? What happened to the so-called "One Sony" initiative? Could an ex-Housemarque developer's new game spark a renewed love for arcade-style romps? What's the latest on the misadventures of an entity called Young Colin? Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:32:10 - Pursuing your dream0:44:04 - Walking inspiration0:49:29 - Young Colin0:52:29 - Black Friday memories1:04:24 - Colin’s Intergalactic drama1:17:41 - Fired Sucker Punch employee speaks out1:43:21 - Death Stranding 2 PC release leaked1:47:39 - New info on PlayStation emulation from MysticRyan2:00:30 - Sony's PC releases are declining2:04:33 - Stellar Blade 2 will be multiplatform2:13:22 - Is PS5 safe from RAM price increases?2:26:16 - New Marathon closed beta2:37:04 - December PS+ games2:43:23 - Splitgate 2 returns in December2:45:38 - Far Cry is getting a TV show2:49:42 - What We’ve Been Playing3:08:52 - Shoutout to Sektori3:11:59 - Portal for Christmas3:14:57 - Portal's PS button change3:17:41 - What happened to One Sony?3:25:03 - Why drives the love for retro games?3:37:14 - PSA on getting your partner into games Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations, welcome back to Sacred Symbols, a PlayStation podcast.
0:20.4	This is episode number 387. My name is Carl Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my son, Chris Ragan. Chris, good to see you today, my friend. How are you? I'm good. I never know how to start these episodes, really. Because I've seen some comments being like, oh, Chris with the weather report or like, Chris with the sleep report. And I'm like, I woke up an hour ago. You know, my day's not really, I haven't said anything in motion yet. This is the first thing I do. Yeah. Like a coffee or like breakfast. So I'm like, I don't know what to tell you. Sorry for not having a more interesting wake-up session, I guess.
0:57.1	It's always something.
0:58.5	It's always something.
0:59.5	It's never nothing.
1:00.7	Yeah, that's true.
1:01.5	That's true, man.
1:04.5	It's good to see you.
1:05.6	Hope you're doing well.
1:12.3	What are you, now, this will go live after Thanksgiving, but are you doing like a friend's, Friends Thanksgiving?
1:14.2	Yeah, we're keeping it low key.
1:16.3	We usually rent out like we usually do like a big Airbnb thing.
1:20.7	Everybody brings, everybody cooks.
1:24.4	You know, I usually brew some alcohol for everybody. I used to do wings, but like it's,
1:31.9	I had a deep fryer or like a, not a, not like a McDonald's deep fry, but like, you know, like a,
1:36.2	like a normal countertop deep fry that would like make a bunch of wings in. And I was using it
1:41.7	for so long that like it started warping like the steam started like warping some of the cabinets. And I was like, maybe I'll maybe I'll. I thought maybe I do it outside, but there's no real convenient way to do it outside. So I was like, this is this kind of a hassle. And I know you can make, you know, you can make them in the air fryer.
2:03.7	Yeah, that doesn't. I like the air friar.
2:07.0	The oil does something. And you're having, you're having fried wings.
2:11.9	What are you going to be healthy when you're eating fried wings? Like, oh, it's less oil.
2:18.8	The fuck. But, um, so I've kind of stopped doing that like for the last like year, two years. And I've just been focusing on like brewing some, uh, goquitha, which I've talked about
2:22.0	on the show before.
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