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Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

#400 | My Computer Is Future Shockin'

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Games, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 285 minutes

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Summary

While the wider world continues to embrace ubiquitous access for their digital products, compelling rumors indicate Sony might opt to go in the other direction. This is particularly surprising considering their pursuit of success on PC, openness in publishing on Nintendo Switch, and the shocking move to bring Helldivers II to Xbox. Then again, the numbers speak for themselves. It appears PlayStation has grossed somewhere between one and two billion dollars in total from their PC releases dating back to 2020, a comically small sum compared to their greater gross over that time, and an amount of money that may simply not justify further jeopardizing their closed ecosystem. Are we about to snap back to the old way of doing things? Many PlayStation fans will be pleased, if so. Plus: Wolverine gets a September release date on PS5, Horizon: Hunters Gathering and Marathon revel in concurrent playtests, Death Stranding 2 is coming to PC very soon, French publisher Nacon declares its insolvency, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! Can Sony's first party teams truly be blamed for pitching games-as-a-service when it was clear that's what leadership wanted? Could it be possible that the secret Santa Monica Studio, Cory Barlog-directed game is Uncharted? Is Resident Evil 9's 10-12 hour runtime a selling point or a detriment? Will Sacred Symbols go another 400 episodes, or perhaps even 4,000? 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 Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:34:10 - New merch drop!0:46:42 - Reflecting on 400 episodes1:00:10 - Favorite part of doing the show1:13:26 - 420 special?1:14:25 - capspiracy1:15:39 - USA GOLD1:26:16 - triple space1:27:49 - 100 chicken nuggets1:39:16 - Chris on Bluepoint1:56:17 - Saint Slayer release date2:01:35 - Wolverine release date2:09:17 - Sony walking away from PC gaming?2:33:09 - Horizon Hunters Gathering beta this weekend2:36:52 - Marathon cheaters will be banned permanently2:45:08 - Death Stranding 2 PC specs revealed2:48:01 - Nacon is insolvent2:50:29 - Marvel Maximum Collection revealed3:02:46 - New NieR game?3:06:12 - Yves Guillemot interview3:11:17 - Koei Tecmo reorganizes3:13:08 - March PS+ Games3:17:50 - January sales data3:23:27 - What We’ve Been Playing3:39:34 - Did PS Studios really choose live service games?3:55:00 - Could Cory Barlog’s next game be Uncharted?4:05:40 - Softball interviews4:19:45 - 10–12 hour games4:24:30 - How to use guides4:28:11 - RNG in 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. This is episode number 400. My name is Carl Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my son Chris Raygon, Chris. Happy 400. How are you doing it? Yeah, my friend. Yeah, we did it. I'm doing okay. Not too bad. You know, today's a weird day because it's like this marathon service line is happening right now,

0:40.3

basically, and it ends just starting. So I feel like that, you ever see that, that image of

0:45.5

Lois Griffin, which is like looking over at the pill bottle?

0:50.7

Although I don't even know, like I feel like, I feel like it's going to have a ton of server issues so

0:54.9

yeah you kind of want to maybe let everyone deal with it at first and then when it settles maybe

0:59.3

you yeah yeah it's cool but like it's yeah 400 is crazy it's uh doesn't feel it it it's one of those

1:08.1

things where like it feels like it's been that many and also not even close at the same time.

1:11.5

Yeah, I understand completely.

1:13.9

It's gone pretty quick and yet incredible levels of consistency for us, which I'm very proud of.

1:21.2

We'll talk a little bit about episode 400 later on.

1:25.3

I felt a little lazy around the time of getting 400 together. It's like, like, oh, should we do something kind of celebratory? And then I'm like, well, why don't we, it's not the timing's not great. Because Saints, you know, my new game or our new game, St. Slayers is about to go gold. I've been really, really busy, like unusually busy. Dealing with that plus the company stuff. So I was like, why don't we, we launched the show.

1:45.3

I want to say July 2nd, something like that.

1:49.5

And I was like, why don't we, July 2nd, 2018.

1:53.0

So why don't we just do something then?

1:56.2

It'll be easier.

1:57.0

Give you a little bit more time.

1:58.9

Yeah.

1:59.3

Because 52 a year, it's like very, I don't know, 400 is not eight years. It's something else. So like seven and a half years or whatever. So it's a little underwhelming. Let's be honest. Everyone's a little underwhelmed right now. Thank you for being here, Chris. It's good to see it. By the way, you're in New York still, looks like.

2:38.0

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. There was some, I don't know if I want to talk too deeply about it at all, really. I kind of want to just get away from a lot of it, but family reasons. Just like, you know, I feel like people can infer what that means, but yeah. So it's not the best circumstances to be home, but, uh, you know, it's nice to see everybody at the very least. You found out someone was in the Epstein files. Right. Yeah. That's exactly what it is. I was thinking about you, Chris, because you got to be there for the, uh, the blizzard. Yeah, that was kind of nice. That's kind of fun. I mean, it's annoying, but also kind of fun. Yeah, if you don't have to do anything or be anywhere, what's the big deal?

2:53.6

Yeah, I mean, of nice. That's kind of fun. I mean, it's annoying, but also kind of fun.

2:51.7

Yeah, if you don't have to do anything or be anywhere, what's the big deal?

2:53.6

Yeah, I mean, I had to shovel a little bit, but like, I don't know. It's like, it's, I don't mind. Like, I'm the lives that we live are so sedentary that like in needing to shovel snow actually kind of felt like productive and nice in a weird way.

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