Episode 556 - Vita Means Life, And That's Beautiful

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🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Sony’s at it again with rumors of a new handheld console floating around. This time they’re looking to tether it to the PS5 as a remote play machine, but is that enough of a use case to justify it’s existence (let alone what it might cost?). The crew then discusses April fools joke games, learning to cope with Mr.X in RE 2, revisiting Breath of the Wild, and take a quick dip in the question bucket to answer some vintage questions.

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0:00.0	What's good internet? It's April 7th, 2023 and you're listening to Waypoint Radio episode 556.
0:24.0	I am your host Rob Zachini and I'm joined by Patrick Lepic.
0:27.3	Hello, I got to turn off the heater. I keep going and our producer Ricardo Contreras.
0:34.0	It's going to hit 75 today in New York. Yeah, I think you have the heat that we got earlier this week.
0:40.6	We had a 77 day and then don't worry, it's back down to 50. Yeah. See, I wish I could be more excited
0:50.1	about like the 77 degree day, except that like that means it's going to be like 82 inside my building
0:55.6	immediately. No. So it is the like it's it's it's nice outside, but where you end up having to
1:01.8	spend a lot of your day to work, it's immediately like, well, I don't know how to control this
1:05.6	temperature. So I'm just going to sit here and be sweltering. Anyway, Patrick, I want to jump
1:14.8	right into this because I saw people chatting about this the the other day and I'm eager to know more
1:20.0	and get into this. Having had that big discussion about the questionable fate of PSVR2, how that's
1:28.2	going, you know, another kind of fizzling, you know, peripheral project by Sony. There's a rumor
1:36.8	going around that Sony wants to touch that hot stove again with a another peripheral device.
1:43.2	Yeah, there's a report out of insider gaming, Tom Henderson, who has been pretty reliable
1:49.7	on things, especially related to a belief call of duty. I can't necessarily speak to the track record
1:54.8	on Sony hardware announcements, nor can I speak to this authoritatively, personally based on
2:00.4	people I've spoken with. But you know, it has been backed up by giant bombs Jeff grub, who has
2:07.9	sort of corroborated this broader idea that Sony is working on some sort of new handheld and
2:12.8	these sort of collective sort of agreed rumors reports. However, one to categorize them is that it
2:19.2	is not not something that would be a Vita 2 or a new PSP, but as in fact, kind of following a trend
2:28.6	that we are seeing in the wake of things like the steam deck, which is a either cloud or remote
2:34.0	play focused device. Like currently you can from your phone or your iPad or from a computer, you can
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