Sacred Symbols, Episode 309 | No One's Dying Dishonorably (Patreon)

During Sony's fiscal recent reporting, the company promised that it would further outline its respective situations and plans with each of its internal silos. When it comes to PlayStation, the result was an informative, information-rich PDF and an earnings call-like presentation that gives us a lot of extra insight into the brand. Here's what's clear: PlayStation is economically vibrant, growing, and reaching more than a hundred million people each month. Its generational revenue and profits are at all-time highs. People are spending more on the console than ever, purchasing more content, engaging with more products, and hanging around longer than ever. So, uh... maybe all of that chatter of an industry-wide console decline was a little premature? Sony (and Nintendo) is doing much better than just fine. Other news this week includes details on all 14 games shown during Sony's State of Play stream, including our first look at first party products like Firewalk's Concord and Asobi's all-new AstroBot game, rumors of the next Doom coming to PS5 day-and-date, the mystery behind Dragon Warrior III HD's long-time disappearance and recent return, controversy surrounding the misquoting of Neil Druckmann by Sony's own PR, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! When we say an executive has a fiduciary obligation, what do we mean? Should Sony be worried about Call of Duty going to Xbox Game Pass day one? Why is Activision being sued by the Uvalde shooting parents? Does Colin have any advice for a new Boston Terrier owner?

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro

0:18:09 - Texas Tornado

0:22:23 - Boston Terrier advice

0:26:02 - Listening in the shower

0:38:16 - Two rapid questions

0:49:31 - New Doom on PS5

1:11:53 - PSVR2 PC adapter

1:21:50 - Neil Druckmann misquoted

1:45:43 - Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 announced

1:50:48 - Dragon Quest III HD update

1:57:28 - Dragon's Dogma 2 sells three million

1:59:14 - What are we playing?

2:34:27 - State of Play

3:21:54 - Sony investors meeting

4:09:34 - Days of Play 2024

4:21:07 - Resident Evil rumors

4:31:00 - Circana's April data

4:39:21 - JRPG lingo ranking

4:43:55 - Rebuilding a lost collection

4:51:30 - Will people switch to Xbox for COD on Gamepass?

4:59:54 - What is fiduciary obligations?

5:01:36 - Class Action lawsuit against games

5:14:35 - Was Destiny successful?