The Hey all, welcome back to the PlayStation Podcast. You got Kristen here and it is episode 400

Oh my gosh all those sound effects I believe I'm joined this week by is that

Tim Turry that's me and we also have Justin Massingale hey

hello hello hi excitement hi high excitement for episode 400 we you know we wanted to get this party

started a little bit early so actually we want to start out the episode this

week Sid could not join us for recording but he was able to catch up with one Hermann Holst the head of

PlayStation Studios and we have a pretty big conversation a lot of juicy

juicy little morsels in there we wanted to start off the episode strong with that so let's let's

listen in now to Sid Mr Hermann Holst who is the head of

PlayStation Studios.

Welcome back to the podcast, Herman.

Hey, Sid, nice to talk to you again.

And fun fact for you, this is actually our 400th episode of the official PlayStation podcast.

400 episodes over, boy, it's been about 10 years now.

But I could think of nobody that I wanted to speak with more than you and I wanted to kind of get an update on on you and what you've been working on and your new role at PlayStation studios.

Well, it's not actually such a new role anymore. You've been head of

PlayStation Studios now for quite a while and what's what's been your focus so far

over this past year, year and a half? Well, Sid, it's it's been quite a right. It's it's been what 17 months now. It's hard to

imagine it's only been 17 months since I took that job. When I started we had to finish some important PS4 games. We were working on

getting our titles ready for PS5 launch and obviously there was COVID adding a layer of complexity to all of that.

But against his backdrop were growing in PlayStation studios quite rapidly so my priority was getting

first of all a really strong global management team in place for PlayStation studios.

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