PlayStation, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where PlayStation comes up
Astra Reactions, Jobs Print, Cybercab Launch | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:25 unnamed speaker It's gotta be running on a PC, on Steam, or on a PS five, or on an Xbox.
Ben Thompson Explains the XBOX Disaster
- ▶ 9:13 Ben Thompson They called it the three 60 because it was coming out the same generation as the PlayStation three, and they wanted to jump forward. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:29 Ben Thompson Big misstep in terms of the whole PlayStation era. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:57 Ben Thompson Um, just in general, they, they had sort of taken over in PlayStation one and two.
- ▶ 12:05 Ben Thompson They bought a bunch of small studios, in contrast to like buying Activision, which we can get to a little bit, they bought a bunch of small studios and pushed all those studios to developing killer games for the upcoming PS four. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:04 Ben Thompson Um, and that really just continued to the PS five.
- ▶ 17:11 Ben Thompson We'll still sell on PlayStation, because we have to, because that's a lot of money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:50 unnamed speaker Because that means the real value of the game is actually in the hundreds of dollars, if people have a PlayStation, and then they'll try something new.
XBOX Layoffs, Tesla's New Model Y, $12.8M Lottery Dispute | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:57 John Coogan PS five has a ton of amazing exclusives, and then Nintendo has, Nintendo, the N-sixty-four used to compete directly with the PlayStation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:57 John Coogan PS five has a ton of amazing exclusives, and then Nintendo has, Nintendo, the N-sixty-four used to compete directly with the PlayStation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:59 John Coogan When you think about Valve, it's just a money printing machine on top of PC, uh, the PC gaming industry broadly is, is doing well, and, and PlayStation's done such a good job, Sony's done such a good job with PlayStation with creating,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:29 John Coogan Because that would be sort of a killer feature that would get a lot of gamers, even if they're in the PS five ecosystem, they say, well, I want to play Call of Duty.
The Truth Behind the “Solo Founder Billion Dollar Company”
- ▶ 21:15 John Coogan Around AI, specifically around the art generation, like pixel art generation, all of that, but if you think about AI as a tool for writing game logic, and particularly, like, re-platforming, it took him, I want to say, like, a full year,…
SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:06 John Coogan What say do we have over, you know, if, if Japan wants to sell PlayStations to China or anywhere, why do we have authority over them?
Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It
- ▶ 6:55 John Coogan Like, what, what say do we have over, you know, if Japan wants to sell PlayStations to China or anywhere, why do we have authority over them?
OpenAI drops GPT-5.4, Iran War fallout, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 29:25 John Coogan The PS six is supposedly delayed.
Apple’s MacBook Neo, OpenAI’s Pentagon Agreement, Anthropic’s Investors Silent on DoW | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:42 unnamed speaker The Sony PlayStation six is allegedly going to be delayed until twenty-twenty-eight or twenty-twenty-nine because of rising memory costs.
FULL BREAKDOWN: Apple’s 7 New Devices
- ▶ 22:23 unnamed speaker The Sony PlayStation six is allegedly going to be delayed until twenty-twenty-eight or twenty-twenty-nine because of rising memory costs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:30 unnamed speaker Like, Sony has been making PlayStations for decades, and they still got caught flat-footed on this, and a lot of that is a testament to the brand power that Apple has, the network effects, the, the, the, the scale they built, that they're…
What The Citrini Selloff Says About the Stock Market
- ▶ 9:54 John Coogan As people are predicting doom around Xbox, uh, PlayStation gets a lot more powerful.
Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:59 John Coogan Like if Xbox goes away, as people are predicting doom around Xbox, PlayStation gets a lot.
Datacenter Protests, Paramount WB Bid Clears Key Hurdle, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:38 Jordi Hays Its quarterly engagement is now equal to Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined.
The Cournot Equation, Micron’s $200B Bet, Hollywood vs. Seedance 2.0 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:57 John Coogan Did you hear that the, the PS six, the PlayStation six is now delayed because of memory shortages? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:38 unnamed speaker I mean, I feel like this says a lot about how good the PS five is, right?
FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI
- ▶ 42:35 Dylan Patel PlayStation buds.
China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:41 John Coogan The PlayStation, like, it's just beloved electronics, and you see the Sony logo, and it's just way more familiar than TCL.
Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:02 John Coogan Uh, the PS five, massive success. 2 times in the scene
CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:19 unnamed speaker Yeah, the PlayStation, I think, just had two at the time, and maybe the N-sixty-four had four.
Blue Origin Lands Rocket, Valve Drops Steam Machine, Cantor Group Surges | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:57 John Coogan Uh, for a fraction of the price and headache, they'll be able to play PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and indie games.
- ▶ 10:08 John Coogan I mean, it's, it's, it looks like it fits in a media console where it's gonna live next to a PS five.
How AI Will Change Gaming Forever | Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki Live on TBPN
- ▶ 8:20 Dave Baszucki does a game run on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Xbox, PlayStation, Quest, and more to come?
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 35:27 John Coogan And so, I was thinking back then, that you could use like the IP address of the, of a, of a connected, I think we were watching it on like a PS three, like a DVD player, like you could, you could use the DVD player to dynamically change…
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 27:02 Balaji Srinivasan And that's much harder to do because you'd have to maintain its stability against bread and playstations and whatever.
BREAKING: DOGE Just Added a GAME CHANGER
- ▶ 31:47 John Coogan I'm pretty sure Greg, uh, George Hotz, the, uh, the, the hacker who broke the PS three, the original iPhone, uh, uh, jail broke the iPhone and eventually went on to develop comma AI and a bunch of other cool stuff, but, um, fantastic…
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 1:00:44 John Coogan Maybe the PlayStation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:26 John Coogan On PlayStation five over the, uh, over the break with my son, and, uh, and it was, it was, it was awesome.
Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- ▶ 22:39 John Coogan And so you, you're not going to displace the PS five until you can give someone an experience that they can go and chill with for eight hours straight.
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 36:17 John Coogan This is a PS five. 2 times in the scene
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 1:43:57 John Coogan He was the first guy to jailbreak the PlayStation.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 41:38 John Coogan And then we're going to get a mod retro PS one and a PS two.
- ▶ 41:38 John Coogan And then we're going to get a mod retro PS one and a PS two.