What Does PlayStation Look Like Without Call of Duty? - Beyond 732

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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On this week's episode of Podcast Beyond, IGN's PlayStation Podcast, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Jada Griffin, Mark Medina, and Matt Kim to dive into the big news of the week, and, unsurprisingly, we dig into the Activision-Xbox deal. On a PlayStation show, you say? Well, we discuss what this potential deal means for PlayStation players - should Activision and Blizzard games, perhaps most notably, Call of Duty, go exclusive to Xbox consoles and subscription services on console and PC, where does that leave PlayStation? After all, Call of Duty is always one of the industry's best-selling games, and one of the biggest games, with timed exclusives as part of nearly every recent entry, a major factor for PlayStation players. Should future Call of Duty games go away from PlayStation, we discuss what that means for Call of Duty Warzone and more broadly the first-person shooter and multiplayer landscapes on PS4 and PS5. We discuss what PlayStation's recent moves to acquire teams and exclusive games from third-parties means for its future (and why we think multiplayer experiences will be a big part of the PS5's lifecycle), and whether bringing back old franchises like Killzone or Resistance makes sense versus new games. for the PS4 and PS5 player base. We examine PlayStation's recent first-party multiplayer efforts, multiplayer hits on PlayStation Plus, and more as we discuss this, as well as whether the Xbox-Activision deal, and the obvious focus on Xbox Game Pass, will cause any shifts to PlayStation's upcoming alleged subscription plans. Our PlayStation podcast also digs into the new Horizon Forbidden West trailer, as well as God of War's success on PC. Plus, we dive into all the games we've been playing, including Jonathon finally beating Horizon Zero Dawn's The Frozen Wilds DLC, Matt beating Death Stranding, Mark continuing to work through Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and Jada's Demon's Souls trophy hunting. And, for those looking forward to the release of Windjammers 2, Jonathon also speaks to the CEO of DotEmu, Cyrille Imbert, about the series' surprising success on PlayStation a few years ago, their goals with the sequel, and more.

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0:14.0	Beyond and hello everyone, my name is Jonathan Dorbush, and this is podcasts beyond IGN's weekly Playstation show, where we cover all the latest and greatest in the world of Playstation and the gaming industry, because what we're talking about this week pertains to everyone, but it is still also very important to Playstation.
0:43.0	We do have a lot to talk about this week that we're going to get into, but before we zoom, I'm joined this week by Jada Griffin.
0:48.0	Hello, I'm excited to talk about all the Nintendo news.
0:52.0	I'm a long podcast, wrong podcast, PlayStation, Xbox, PlayStation, PlayStation stuff. Yes, I mean, Banjo, Kazooie's coming out. So that's all banjo, Kazooie, right?
1:00.0	That's what the PlayStation fans want to hear about. That's what I was invited here for my speed,
1:05.0	the exacting abilities in Banjo, Kazooie. Speaking of speedruns, we have the master of the speedrun scene at IGN, at least when it comes to Super Mario 64. Man, we keep bringing up Nintendo. Mark Medina is here without this week as well.
1:19.0	Yes, some nerds. Yeah, I was out last week. I was locked in a dungeon still in that dungeon, but now I have fiber, so I'm back.
1:27.0	That's a very bright dungeon you have there.
1:29.0	I know, and I got food and I got coffee. It's honestly like I love it. It's just an apartment. Wait, it might just be a house.
1:39.0	When I do have a prison guard, I do have a prison guard. It's fair enough. She's my prison guards. That makes sense. She does run a tight chip. I assume.
1:48.0	We're also joined this week by Matt Kim. Hello. Hi.
1:52.0	I. He's got nothing. Wow. That's a lot of.
2:01.0	Okay, that might have been the might have been the greatest intro I've ever heard.
2:05.0	I was fantastic. I know Matt, don't worry. You'll have plenty to talk about later when we get to what we're playing because you finished a very,
2:13.0	very big PlayStation game. I did. But before we get to your talk of God of War, Agnirok, of course.
2:21.0	We do have a lot to talk about this week. And the first thing that we want to talk about is obviously the biggest news of the week slash year slash probably decade.
2:33.0	And of course, as we've talked about big things like this, I'll get into a little bit of why we think it's important to cover here.
2:40.0	But we are going to be jumping into the sort of ramifications of the probably deal that you saw of Xbox planning to acquire Activision Blizzard by either later this year or middle of 2023, depending on when the deal closes.
2:56.0	We're going to talk about that sort of in the context of what it means for PlayStation because.
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