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Game Scoop!

Game Scoop! Episode 295

Game Scoop!

IGN

Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jack Tretton steps down from head of PlayStation, Batman: Arkham Knight is announced, and we discuss the hardest games we've ever played.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Welcome to IGN Game Scoop. I'm your host, Damon Hatfield. I'm

0:15.0

joined today by Greg Miller, Justin Davis, and Brian Altano. We've got a great show for

0:20.6

you today. Lots of stuff to talk about. We're going to talk about. There's a new Batman

0:23.0

game. The uncharted writers leaving Naughty Dog. But first, breaking news today. Jack

0:30.4

Trenton stepping down as president, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment. There he is.

0:35.9

Jack. He's friend of yours. Yeah, big time. Big time.

0:39.1

We've interviewed him in New York. I've been right here in this room. Yeah, sat in one

0:43.0

of these two chairs. Yeah, but it wasn't the other one though. So that's kind of gross.

0:46.0

That's right. I mean, related jokes about Sony. Yeah. Yeah. I've interviewed. I covered

0:50.0

PlayStation exclusively for IGN for like six and a half years. I've talked to Jack Trenton

0:54.0

a lot. Sad to see him go, but what a time for him to go, right? PlayStation four is on

0:57.4

top. That's what I want to ask. Yeah. It seems like a strange time for me, right? Like,

1:00.7

they just launched a PlayStation four. They're riding this huge wave of success. And he's

1:04.5

like, well, I'm out. Like, he didn't want to like stick around a little bit longer. I mean,

1:08.8

he's stuck around a long time, right? Like 19 years. He's been there since they started

1:13.6

as Sony Computer Entertainment. Yeah. He was part of the team that launched the original

1:17.2

PlayStation. Right. Wow. Yeah. He's been around forever. He's been there for every

1:21.0

console launch. I think if anything, you get tired of a job or you know, you want to

1:25.3

go out on a high note like Seinfeld. I was just going to say that, right? That's the

1:28.2

one thing I always go back to. If he leaves during PlayStation three era, it's always

1:32.0

going to be, oh, and Sony kind of went to this rough and tumble time. And you know, they

1:34.7

turned it around, but they were never great or whatever. And now you get to be troubled

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