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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where PlayStation comes up
Apple's Vision Pro
- ▶ 20:19 Benedict Evans You know, if you'd seen a PlayStation five, 20 years ago, you would have said,
- ▶ 20:23 Benedict Evans Turns out that Xbox and PlayStation combined have an install base of something like two hundred million units, and you add all the, like, the smaller ones, and that's another 50 or a hundred.
Vision Pro, two weeks on
- ▶ 8:20 Benedict Evans You know, PlayStation five is better than a PlayStation four.
- ▶ 8:20 Benedict Evans You know, PlayStation five is better than a PlayStation four. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:23 Benedict Evans She's better than the PlayStation three, but you didn't have to wait for the PlayStation five before you could do anything.
Apple Vision
- ▶ 24:09 Benedict Evans Um, can you do photo realistic three, um, Call of Duty that doesn't look like it's running on an iPad, that doesn't look like an iPhone game as opposed to a PlayStation game?
- ▶ 24:24 Benedict Evans It's probably not got as much compute as a PlayStation five. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:57 Benedict Evans Is this kind of, you know, my, my, my go-to metaphor talking about VR, which Apple obviously never said is, um, if you had shown your PlayStation five in 1990, you would say,
Metaverse and crypto - beyond the BS
- ▶ 9:27 Benedict Evans Is that if you'd seen a PlayStation five in 1990, you would have said, this is amazing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:01 Benedict Evans If people are willing to play puzzle games on their smartphone, they're not willing to play three hours of Call of Duty on a big screen TV on a PlayStation.
No Soup for You! Regulating tech M&A
- ▶ 16:15 Benedict Evans Um, there are sort of a 170, hundred and eighty million people who have an Xbox or a, um, PlayStation five.
Games and Roblox
- ▶ 15:02 Benedict Evans When, which is, you know, again, to be really crude about it, but like Tomb Raider was now games consoles can do three D and Tomb Raider was like the hero game for the PlayStation or the PlayStation two.
- ▶ 15:02 Benedict Evans When, which is, you know, again, to be really crude about it, but like Tomb Raider was now games consoles can do three D and Tomb Raider was like the hero game for the PlayStation or the PlayStation two.
- ▶ 34:37 Benedict Evans Are more ten-year-olds playing Roblox now than were playing PlayStation and Nintendo 20 years ago?