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Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

#402 |The Story Was Quite Clear

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Games, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 263 minutes

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Summary

With Sony abandoning its chase of easy PC dollars, the megalithic Japanese company instead seems intent on maximizing its dollars at home, and reasonably so. While reporting indicates PlayStation's PC sales were stymied by staggered and unpredictable releases, that was already obvious. What's less clear is how Sony's pursuit of profit might affect the status quo, with a lawsuit in the UK over PSN monopolization and blatant A/B testing for dynamic digital pricing happening right before our eyes. What does the future hold as we begin to move towards next-gen? Plus: EA lays off members of the Battlefield team that created America's best-selling game in 2025, Nagoshi Studio and its Yakuza-like title Gang of Dragon are in big trouble, a LEGO PlayStation (1) console is seemingly en route for the holiday season, adventure classics Myst and Riven are PS5-bound, Crimson Desert finally emerges on PS5 Pro, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! With id finding so much success with the revived Doom trilogy, could Quake be next? What was the deal with that cryptic Bluepoint Tweet from 2019, anyway? Are physical-only players being hurt by the underproduction of copies of big games? Is Dustin intentionally making mistakes in his edits to sabotage our entire operation? Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/SACRED and use code SACRED and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! A special Magic City Max Discount promotion is live in the app right now. Jalen Johnson only needs 0.5 POINTS during the Hawks vs Magic game this Monday 3/16. Open the app and make it rain! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Get 10% off at https://www.betterhelp.com/symbols Get 50% off and free breakfast for a year at https://www.factormeals.com/sacred50off and use code sacred50off  Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:28:57 - Ragebaiting Dustin0:38:33 - Geno Smith0:38:56 - Neighborhood drama0:45:22 - Sony's issues with PC releases0:54:22 - UK case vs Sony digital storefront begins1:13:40 - Sony testing dynamic pricing1:33:32 - EA layoffs1:45:23 - Nagoshi Studio is in trouble1:56:33 - A PS1 Lego set is coming2:05:55 - Crimson Desert console specs2:13:43 - Pragmata moves up release date2:15:36 - Myst and Riven remake coming to PS52:19:38 - Falcom revives Dragon Slayer2:27:09 - New PS+ game catalog titles2:31:27 - What We’re Playing (Resident Evil Requiem, Minishoot Adventures, Marathon, Pokemon Pokopia)3:38:42 - Preordering physical games3:48:05 - New Quake?3:56:13 - Can Sony pull people away from established games?3:59:50 - Do Sony studios have too much power?4:02:27 - What was the point of Bluepoint's old tweet?4:05:03 - Starfield interference 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 402. My name is Colin Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my son, Chris Raygon. Chris, what is the meaning of life? Kevin seen Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in a long time. I don't remember what the number was. I think it's a number. Yeah, I think it's 42. 42 sounds right. That's ringing a bell. There you go. How's it? What's going on? Not too bad. I'm flying out soon next couple days. So wrapping things up here in New York. I'm going to be back next month, though, because, of course.

0:54.9

Why don't you just move back to New York where you belong? Eh, I'm going to be back here anyway. I got a house. So, like, there's no rush. Yeah, that's the way that I feel about it. That's true. So, yeah, your parents' house, you'll inherit that. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. So like I figured like I'm going to be back here at some point anyway.

1:13.1

No need to rush it, you know? house you'll inherit that. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. So like I figured like I'm going to be back here at some point anyway.

1:13.1

No need to rush it. You know, what if I want to live in Japan for three for three years and they get kicked out?

1:19.3

Yeah.

1:20.8

There's whatever version of ice they have.

1:23.1

Anime ice.

1:26.4

But I'm doing all right. I got up stupid early. Well rested. I don't know. It was one of those things

1:33.4

where I woke up not being able to go back to sleep because I was like, well, I've slept all I could.

1:37.6

And it was like 6.30 in the morning. I was like, okay. I guess this is it. Yeah, I have that sometimes myself where I'll like sleep for five or six hours and then I'll wake up to pee or something. And then I'm like, I feel like I should just stay up and then like, nah. And then I go back to bed and then I wake up three hours later and I feel like I got hit by a fucking truck. Yeah. Stupid. Over sleep. Yeah. My dad would always say that. He would say like when you wake when you wake up just get out of bed and be like that. We're not all firemen.

2:03.1

I think you're just used to getting fucking star. My dad would always say that. He would say like when you wake, when you wake up, just get out of bed.

2:16.5

And he'd be like that, we're not all firemen. I think you're just used to getting fucking startled awake. And so you're and so you, I always used to ask, I would ask him that when I was younger. Like what do you do? Like, do you sleep? And he's like, not really. You know, when they're like when they're on tour. you know, really.

2:18.1

Do you have an alarm?

2:19.3

Do you have an alarm

2:19.8

that you wake up to or do you,

2:20.7

or do you not? I have my phone. My phone alarm goes off. But I would say two out of three times I wake up. I don't wake up to it. I wake up before. And then I shut it off. I feel like an alarm ruins my day. Me too.

2:34.9

In some way.

2:39.1

Like if I wake up with an alarm, it's kind of like, this is already starting off on the wrong foot, you know, alarmist.

2:43.1

When I worked in the corporate world at IGN, I would actually, I would have to be at work

2:48.7

like nine.

2:49.9

And so I would actually, I had like a

2:51.8

very good circadian rhythm where I would just kind of get up at like 630 or 7. It was really weird.

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