PlayStation’s 2025 Year in Review - Beyond 927

Beyond

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, we’re taking a look back at PlayStation’s 2025, from game releases to hardware announcements, corporate reorgs to global politics. The PS5 has had a wonderful year, breaking the 80 million sales mark, but it also saw price hikes at a time in the console life cycle when hardware usually gets cheaper. With this in mind, we’re in no hurry for a PlayStation 6, but Sony is definitely working on something behind the scenes. Beyond! 00:00 - Intro 02:38 - PlayStation’s 2025 Year in Review 05:49 - Do you Miss Your PS4? 27:49 - Brian is a BIG TIME MLB The Show fan 33:58 - PlayStation’s 2025 Year in Review Continued 34:29 - New PlayStation Hardware 38:40 - Did PlayStation Do a Good Job In 2025? 42:23 - PlayStation needs to get weird again 44:01 - Should PlayStation Make a New Handheld? This weeks show is Hosted by Max Scoville, Brian Altano, Jada Griffin, Nick Maillet, and is produced by Nick Maillet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Beyond and hello and welcome once again to IGN's weekly PlayStation show. I'm your host, Max Scoville.
0:04.4	And coming up, we are taking a look back at the major events around PlayStation in 2025 and maybe
0:09.9	saying what we hope to see from the company in 26. Let's get into it. I am joined once again by my good pals Brian Altano, Jada Griffin and Nick
0:28.5	Maya.
0:29.1	Beyond, everybody.
0:29.7	How's it going?
0:30.4	Beyond.
0:31.4	Beyond.
0:31.7	Back again.
0:34.2	Yeah, so this is the last episode of the year, so I figured it's a good opportunity to kind of just do a speed run of everything that happened around Sony in 2025.
0:44.3	I would say it's been a big year.
0:46.5	It's been the year's the same length as they always are, you know?
0:50.0	The same amount of stuff happened in the year, But how much of that stuff was related to PlayStation?
0:55.8	That may vary.
0:58.4	Doing great.
0:59.6	Don't come with that face to me, Brian Alton.
1:01.3	Nailed it.
1:02.1	That was, I was a...
1:02.9	What is a year?
1:04.1	No one knows.
1:05.4	No, we, I forget where I was.
1:07.4	But Max, we have this running...
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