Sacred Symbols, Episode 42: Sony Talks PlayStation 5 (Patreon)

This week was already going to be zany here on Sacred Symbols. That's 'cause there's a ton of news to get through, including the roll-out of the long-awaited, vaunted PSN name change functionality, new tidbits relating to Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us: Part II, kinda-sorta-maybe confirmations concerning new entries in the Horizon and Killzone franchises, and much more. Hell, we even learned more about Respawn's upcoming (entirely single-player?!) Star Wars game. But then something quite unusual occurred: An interview with Sony's Mark Cerny was released, like mana from heaven, and within it was a shocking amount of information about PlayStation 5 (though they won't yet call it that). For the first time, we have actual answers to common PS5-related questions (like backwards compatibility, various confirmations on components, PSVR integration, and more). So it's only right that the World's Most Beloved PlayStation Podcast jumped into the details with all the gusto you'd expect from such a mighty show. Thereafter, we round things out with listener questions, including one that presents a puzzling inquiry: Is there an unsolvable tension between art and play?

Timestamps:

0:00:17 - Intro.
0:02:03 - We're wishing our best to our French audience (per the Notre Dame fire).
0:03:27 - One listener gives a shout out to Insomniac and the accessibility options in Spider-Man in response to last week’s conversation.
0:05:02 - Another listener writes in to show another perspective to last week’s negative discussion about GameStop.  
0:06:42 -  In regards to Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, one listener suggests to give it a chance before Borderlands 3.
0:07:47 - Chris and Colin are both wrong about The Division 2, says yet another listener.
0:08:44 - What games are we playing?
0:11:12 - Sony confirms some PlayStation 5 details for the very first time.
0:19:51 - Hell has frozen over. You can now change your PSN name.
0:23:48 - Should old or inactive PSN names be purged?
0:25:27 - Why didn’t Sony wait until the bugs were worked out?
0:30:13 - EA and Respawn Entertainment finally talk Jedi: Fallen Order.
0:37:05 - It looks like Guerrilla could be working on both a Horizon sequel and a new Killzone at the same time.
0:42:10 - Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us: Part II may be a while away.
0:46:33 - Blood and Truth has gone gold.
0:47:22 - New reporting (and Sony itself) confirm that PS4 games are being edited for sexual content. Japanese devs ain't happy.
0:51:33 - Capcom is releasing a plug and play system in the form of an arcade stick.
0:52:46 - IO Interactive has revealed the 2019 content road map for Hitman 2.
0:53:16 - An official Paralympics game is in development.
0:54:37 - Minor game announcements and release date information.
0:56:22 - This week's new releases for PS4, PS Vita, and PSVR.
1:05:23 - LeVar Burton would be a great guest on the podcast.
1:05:49 - Dangerous Driving devs created a Spotify playlist instead of paying music licensing fees. Good or bad?
1:10:20 - Are AAA publishers and devs really moving away from single player content?
1:12:43 - Are games like Doom holding back video games as art (and vice-versa)?
1:20:54 - Should PlayStation create a game like VRChat for PSVR?
1:25:40 - Outro.