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Beyond and hello everyone my name is Jonathan Dornbush and this is a special episode of Podcast

Beyond. I'm going to call it episode 638 because I think these topics are big enough for

us to have a numbered proper episode for. But it is such a breaking, unexpected episode

that unfortunately both Max Scoville and Lucia Bryan can't be with us today working on one

of the various other things happening right now and we'll talk about some of those things soon

but thankfully I am joined by Brian Altana. That's right I'm here. Good to see you guys and beyond.

I wish I wish we were doing this episode on a good news circumstance. I think we'll be getting

some of that this year at some point hopefully right? Yeah you would hope that we'll be able to do

one of these for a PS5 launch lineup announced and it has Mac 3 through 7 but for now we unfortunately

have some sad news that we're reporting on this week. I'll read the official statement from Sony

essentially about the fact that the last of us part 2 and Marvel's Iron Man VR have both been

delayed. Sony tweeted out yesterday I believe it was Thursday as we're recording on Friday.

SIE has made the difficult decision to delay the launch of the last of us part 2 and Marvel's Iron

Man VR until further notice. Logistically the global crisis is preventing us from providing the

launch experience our players deserve. They then followed that up and said currently there are no

other delays to report but we'll keep you posted. Obviously people thinking PS5 and Ghost of

Sushi must still to come on PS4. Naughty Dog then put out a further statement which I won't read

in full. It's pretty long but they essentially were saying the game is pretty much done. The statement

says the good news is we're nearly done with development of the last of us part 2. We are in the

midst of fixing our final bugs but they realize the reality that due to logistics beyond our control

we couldn't launch the game to our satisfaction. Brian I do want to talk about because obviously we

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