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Sacred Symbols, Episode 136: Absolute Scarcity (Patreon)

Published:
2021-02-05 17:01:02
Edited:
2021-02-08 16:36:42
Imported:
2022-01

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Sony is thriving. The Japanese mega-company released its quarterly financial results showing a healthy, growing, and forward-thinking organization that's doing a lot right. Especially when it comes to PlayStation. Yet, buried in their financials and accompanying phone calls and interviews is some bad news: PS5 is being sold at a loss, for starters, and worse yet, it doesn't appear Sony is confident that they'll be able to fix the console's supply constraints any time soon. In other words, they're in a frustrating period of what economists call Absolute Scarcity, and it spells bad news for those still on the hunt. We discuss. Plus: The Embracer Group buys Gearbox, San Diego Studio finally shows off this year's MLB: The Show (which is also coming to Xbox for the first time), EA's NCAA Football is about to make a comeback, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! Are we finally about to hit our next-gen stride in May? Is there a fundamental ergonomic problem with DualSense that needs to be fixed? Are PlayStation Store sales getting the best of us? How much Snapple can Chris possibly drink at one time?

Timestamps:

0:00:16 - Intro

0:17:03 - Stadia gets a shake-up.

0:22:45 - RIP Dustin Diamond

0:26:06 - Lady Dimitrescu is 9ft 6in tall.

0:30:46 - Is it normal to eat your food this way? Part II

0:34:20 - Does Chris drink Snapple the wrong way?

0:37:33 - What have we been playing?

0:46:37 - Sony has updated their PlayStation sales numbers.

0:51:17 - The PlayStation 5 is being sold at a loss.

0:58:28 - The Embracer Group is merging with Gearbox Software.

1:13:00 - MLB The Show is definitely coming to Xbox at the same time as PlayStation.

1:24:40 - EA is reviving NCAA Football.

1:36:43 - Mass Effect: Legendary Edition has a release date.

1:52:03 - God of War has received a PS5 update.

2:00:39 - Quantic Dream has launched a second team. What are they working on?

2:07:24 - Destruction AllStars began as a Destruction Derby game.

2:11:23 - News Wrap-Up

2:13:14 - Are the quality of life upgrades worth the price of a PS5?

2:19:25 - How is the PS5 UI treating us?

2:22:49 - Should we expect more big games to be announced for 2021?

2:26:07 - What about gaming related tattoos?

2:30:47 - How often do we buy games and how many is too many?

2:36:17 - Is the DualSense too heavy and why is it hurting people’s hands?

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Adam Thiry

Almost three hours again, awesome! Love the long episodes. Keep them coming

GameSimp

Colin genuinely yearns for Chris to return to NY LOL

Anonymous

Really been enjoying these longer episodes with Dustin recently, keep em coming guys!

Cameron O'Neill

I have been consistently asking why is everyone not more worried about consolidation. It is what happened in technology and now it is happening in the video game industry and no one is having any meaningful conversation about how this could greatly negatively affect us as users. There might not be any obvious solutions, but everyone is totally burying this story and suddenly we will look up and have four large corporations owning all the video game IPs and one of those is probably going to be completely owned by Tencent. Really is shocking the lack of foresight right now.

Anonymous

NCAA! Seriously can't wait! Was cool hearing your take on it, Colin. These athletes should be paid!

Martha Silla

If I just constantly want the D in my Sacred Symbols, does that make me a thirsty white girl???

yosh_wah

Just got my PS5 today at Meijer (basically a Michigan wal-mart). I went in at 4am and had to wait until 8am, but nonetheless!!! I have finally gotten my hands on the behemoth. Currently plying Control Ultimate Edition. With the higher frame rates, fast load times, and overall better performance I am having so much more fun with Control than I did on PS4. Can’t help but feel that this game is a hidden gem of the last generation because it was hindered by the lesser hardware. Have you guys been playing the ultimate edition? What are your thoughts?

Anonymous

Great episode gentle but a correction on the god of war patch- the game runs at 60 FPS since PS5 launched via game boost but the patch combines the frame rate with the 4K checkered board resolution so you get the best of both world. Cheers mate

David Kramme

My PS5 arrived yesterday, your comments about value of time really resonated with me, and with Sony talking “problems” in production I pulled the trigger, 818 after shipping and taxes, worth every penny.

Luis Sanchez

Dustin's impression of Trump was spot on! Hilarious indeed. 👍🏽

Kendall Helmstetter Gelner

I personally am OK with PS5 delays right up to the day Ratchet & Clank ships. Then you better have PS5 trucks driving down each street in the US telling people over loudspeakers to come and get a PS5 right off the truck.

John

Colin, when you were listing the crazy amount of games dropping in May, I was surprised to see you didn’t include Returnal coming out last day in April (I know technically not May, but cmon)

Jimmy Valentine

It would take a much longer conversation to discuss the nuances of if players should or shouldn't be paid. It includes the amount of money actually being made, title 9, etc. Advocating for free market is great, but that's not the way it's set up. I 100% agree college isn't for everyone. I went for political science and history and am glad I did because it did well for me. That's not the case for everyone though. I worked in Worcester, MA for 18 months. I met 2 or 3 people that had the Boston accent. I couldn't take when they said car being from the South. That accent is wild. Lastly, if the controller is too heavy, start lifting some weights. Join us in the fitness channel on the discord. 😉

Miles Williams

My mom is 68 and still acts like it's 1971, lol. She gets medical Marijuana, and is spending her twilight years ripped out of her mind😂

Samuel Ashley

When I think about whether my PS5 is “worth it,” I think about the new PS5 version of Control that just dropped. While I can’t say I’ve notice a huge difference between 30 and 60 frames, when I hear a game like Control runs as bad as it does on PS4 I instantly avoid it. Now I have a ps5 and Control feels like a brand new release to me. I’m sure there are quite a few people that think similar.

Andrew

Dustin diamond was bullied by the cast and its well documented, but he also couldn’t escape that screech role. Feel bad for him in some way, but saved by the bell is the best

Wayde

The ncaa football series news is massive. Most fans know that ncaaf was a better overall game then madden

Lee Bull

Colin, in this slow game release period, you owe it to yourself to check out Hellblade! 😘 Definitely sounds like you can manage a 6hour game.

Your Boi Nicky V

Strange that the boys haven't seen Saved by the Bell. I'm their age and it was still everywhere growing up. Don't worry Old Man Colin, you ain't as out of touch with us youngsters as you think.

Lee Bull

Holy shit, how funny will it be when MLB is top of Xbox metacritic for 2020... A Playstation game 😂

Real Radec

4000p lmao that killed me

Piston Pants

The Mass effect edition is the perfect game to wait on for a sale to pick it up for me since I have played them all before.

IslanderButNotLong

Some real bad ketchup takes by Chris and Dustin on the show oh man!

PapaFlow

This episode was an enjoyable ride good job gents. I’m happy to see the controller ergonomics are getting some more attention from you guys. Speaking of which Dustin I’m sorry to hear it sounds like your issue with dualsense isn’t exclusively because of your hand problems as previously thought. Sounded to me like you’re a little bit concerned about how you’re going to use it moving forward. I can relate as I too have felt helpless. I’ve actually been playing Multiplatform games on either series x or pc where I would normally be playing them on a PlayStation console. I’ve even had thoughts run through my head such as when the new horizon and God of war titles come out I may play the PS4 version on my ps5 just so I don’t have to use dualsense. Such a bizarre situation to be in.

Paul McFerron

I'd recommend Destruction Allstars. Solid arcadey fun -- calls back to a simpler time!

Kenneth Oms

I loved Days Gone a lot. Can’t wait for the sequel, I hope we get to be in a more city environment so that we can see the horde system at work. As much as I like open worlds I want a map that’s somewhat big but has depth man. Depth is good. Open world that is just trees not so much

Kenneth Oms

Indigo prophecy was my favorite quantic dream game next to heavy rain. I feel like with indigo you got a great thriller story that got supernatural and had a lot of interactive elements.

Anonymous

I kinda liked the recommended games segment

Anonymous

I don’t hate or think dustins voice is bad. However it would be a amazing muppet voice

Sumojoe118

Ya that horizontal scrolling trophy list is unacceptable. The cards are massive and still don't even show all of the trophy details unless you click on them.

Random Integer

I gagged a little when Dustin said “ketchup precum”

Calcifer

Hi Colin, Just wanted to give an idea for a segment instead of pick-of-the-week or the drop... how about getting a recommendation from the listeners? The pick from the audience if you will. The idea could be to decide if it goes in your backlog or not. You can add more listener messages into the show and also highlight more games while not being redundant with the what-we’re-playing segment in the beginning. Anyways. Love the show. Keep it up!

Michael Morris

Bummer. The drop really was the best part.

Reuben Barrett

These long intros about nothing much are my favourite. I once took a jar of mayonnaise on holiday, so yeah I can't judge anyone.

Angel DeJesus

Hey Colin, comment on your playstation wrap up online hours number. According to my wrapup, I spent 114 hours online. Which cant be true, because my #1 game, was destiny 2 at 232 hours.

LastStandMedia
>>53007549

Oh. I meant to! Must have forgotten. Edit: You know what, I was reading a PC release list.

LastStandMedia
>>53059133

I'll buy it right away to support EA (I'd love for them to re-release more!), but I'm not gonna play it anytime soon.

Joe McPartlin

As someone who spends a lot of time with online competitive games (mostly Rocket League), I would argue that the Dualsense is Playstation's best controller when it comes to comfort and ergonomics. Its heft compared to the DS4 isn't a problem for me and other than the disappointing battery life and white shell making it a dirt magnet, I have zero complaints about the Dualsense. The DS4 feels cheap and toyish by comparison. Sad that I can only dream about the potential of a Sony "elite" style first party controller option

Martin Colclough

This episode should be titled 136: ketchup pre-cum. Just so the history books will teach future generations where this beautiful phrase was coined.

king_ryan_james

So, I have previously worked for a D-1 Athletic department and I can say with full confidence that NCAA athletes should not be paid any additional money from their universities. Athletes receive so many benefits above and beyond what an average college student gets access to. Free tutoring, physical therapy, counseling, health care, professional development assistance, access to state of the art training and rehab facilities, dietitians, and even more. There are also many implications having to do with Title IX that would come into play where all athletes would most likely have to be paid across all non-revenue sports equally (if the institutions themselves were to pay the athletes). The only two good arguments I’ve heard are that student-athletes should be able to profit off of their likeness (which is now legal is California I believe as of last year or 2019) and the system in which coaches salaries are calculated is insane. Nick Saban makes something like 9 million dollars a year from Alabama. There are Tight Ends Coches at a lot of universities that makes 100k or more a year that are only responsible for maybe 4-6 players on that specific team. The system needs a huge overhaul and will certainly move at a glacial pace knowing the NCAA and College Institutions across the US. Students already get stipends every month in many cases (separate from their scholarships, which I know not all athletes receive). In most cases they blow those stipends on clothes or booze. I’ve seen this first hand. I think student-athletes do just fine for themselves and have access to plenty of resources that will set them up to succeed.

king_ryan_james
>>53211011

A lot of SAs don’t put enough in to get out what is in many cases spoon fed to them throughout the process at D-1 programs.

Luke Silletta

Colin you should check out Narita Boy. I backed it on kickstarter back in 2017. It has an amazing pixel art style that would be right up your alley.

Josh Lucas

Should have listened to chris and edited out that whole resolution bit 😅 holy moly. Just bustin your balls tho love you boys

Kid-Organic

Keep Dustin on, he knows tech the best “2160p”

SteelChevron

2:36:47 Well yeah, it's in the name "DUSTin" or can you interpret it as " Dustin' " as in "dusting" so then it's the opposite because you are literally cleaning so then it doesn't make sense... I'm gonna stop now

Nathan Densley

I'm so sorry I missed your game suggestion moment. And I probably missed your reading of these comments. But these two games are must, Forager and Supraland.

Tanner Lange

1440p is called 2k because it's "2x" better than 1080 and 4k is "4x" better than 1080p

Kyle

You boys ever going to get Matty or karek (sp?) to sit in on an episode?

Cornelius

The best way I can explain 4K is that if the horizontal resolution is doubled from 1080p and the vertical resolution is also doubled then it's 2x2 so 4 times as much.

Tanner Lange
>>53368471

I must have missed it in the show, you guys were confused about it in part of it