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Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: You know, any day that I get to start off
my morning talking about video games is going to be
a good day.
Speaker 3: So I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 1: Man, somebody needs to write a movie about you, because see,
we don't know, Kristin, what really goes on in your department.
But yet I just feel like that there's the secret
meetings that take place.
Speaker 3: You get like a.
Speaker 1: Little pinch of news that we're not supposed to know.
And now you've got to keep us a Christmas secret. Basically,
how do you do it?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think the fun thing is just knowing
that we're going to be able to share exciting info
about these games that are coming out.
Speaker 3: Folks have been.
Speaker 2: Waiting for years for a couple of games, so when
we're finally able to share that info, it is just
the best feeling in the world.
Speaker 1: Well we're talking about marveltoken, What the heck is going
on here? Because anything with Marvel on it is going
to rile up the people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Marvel took On Fighting Souls.
Speaker 2: It's coming August six, later this year, and yeah, you
can assemble a team of just legendary Marvel characters.
Speaker 3: You got X men.
Speaker 2: We just announced a couple of characters that are coming
to it last week. But this is going to be
the ultimate four v four tag team fighter game coming
to us from Arc system Works and Marvel Games. So
it's got that classic cartoon you know, comic book style,
but you're going to be able to play with your
friends and it's going to be so much fun.
Speaker 3: I know, folks have been waiting for a game like this.
Speaker 1: From Well, this also include VR goggles. That's who I am.
I'm that guy.
Speaker 3: You're a big VR player.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Marvel took On I is just going to
be for the base PDS five no vrs of this time,
but if you have more to come, we'll definitely be
announcing it on PlayStation Blog.
Speaker 1: What is that like for you though? That there are
so many of us out here that do game, but
we do it at several different levels. I mean, to me,
it's like radio or podcasting. There are a brilliant things
out here, and you're the one that we're all turning to.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's fun because they're, like you've mentioned,
there's players of all different sizes. There are folks that
it's every day when they finish up work, they're hopping
onto their PS five at the end of the day.
There's folks that maybe they're just playing on the weekends
or they're just waiting for that one game to come
out every year. So I totally get it, and I
think the fun thing is that there's something for everybody
on PlayStation. So if you're an active gamer that you're
just like absolutely in it every day, waiting for news,
waiting for those release dates, we've got you. And then
if you're someone that it's just like, oh, you know,
every couple once in a while, or you know, I
have co op games that I have when friends come
over that we can play, and that's when I become
a gamer.
Speaker 3: We've got something for you. And I think the best
thing too, is we have PlayStation Plus, which is our
subscription service.
Speaker 2: It gives you access to we got free monthly games,
you got discounts, but the biggest bon for that one
is our Game Catalog, so that gives you access to
hundreds of games. I always think of it as like
a key that unsocks this endless closet basically of options
of what you can play. You've got newer titles that
are coming to it. You have older titles that were
on the original PlayStation PS two. So like I was
born in the nineties, I was gaming back then, but
I maybe wasn't playing some of the scarier titles. So
now I love if I can go back and play
some of the games that I missed because they're out
on Game Catalog and I can play it straight from
my PS five.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I just love that there's something for everybody.
Speaker 1: It seems like every movie theater these days is filled
with a movie that used to be a game or
still is a game. How does that affect your game
of keeping us up to date. If they keep turning
it into movies and we keep chasing those games down.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, I think the fun thing is that
gaming has become. You know, over the years, I've been
playing my entire life, and I feel like it's there's
never been a better time to be a gamer.
Speaker 3: Gaming is culture. Gaming is entertainment now, and part of that,
like you mentioned.
Speaker 2: It's coming to TV. You got The Last of Us
on HBO. We've had some great movies Grand Turismo out
a couple of years ago, Uncharted before that with Tom
Holland we have upcoming God of War. The God of
War series is coming to Amazon Prime. But I think
the biggest thing with that and what I've loved to
see as someone who's working at PlayStation, as someone who
is a gamer in their life, it is so fun
for me to have friends that maybe they've never been
big gamers, or maybe they played as kids, but they
haven't been playing for years, and they're watching The Last
of Us and going, this is amazing. You know, I
need to know how the story ends, and I can go, well,
you can be playing part two right now on PS
five you can hop in And I've had friends who
haven't picked up a console in years, picking up a
PS five, going out and playing a game because they
started the show and they loved it. And I think
it's because PlayStation's just known for those incredible story driven
games that tell these human stories. They're a story that
resonate with folks. And then now you're not just watching it.
Now you can play it. Now you can be it. Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the thing is is that you guys at PlayStation,
I'm sure you guys know that relationships have started. There
are marriages, there are families that now have kids, all
because it's started at PlayStation. Because they were on there
taking on each other around the country. All of a
sudden someone said you want to meet and all of
a sudden, now they got babies.
Speaker 3: So I said, come on, I mean, it's true. My
husband and I have been gamers of our entire lives.
One of the things.
Speaker 2: That one of the things that we originally bonded over
was gaming. Absolutely, so I think it's been really fun.
You know, I'm in my thirties, so a lot of
my friends are starting to have kids and starting you know,
their kids are starting to be the age that they
can share PlayStation with them as well, and that has
been such a full circle moment of like I remember
us being the kids playing and now they can play too.
And it's great is that if you have kids, we
have the PlayStation Family app that can help set parental controls.
We have a ton of family friendly games, like the
number one thing. I'm always saying to folks that if
you have kids, maybe even if you're not necessarily a gamer,
stop and playing.
Speaker 3: With your kids. There are some incredible games to bond
with them over.
Speaker 2: We've got Astrobot came out last year or the year
before rather, and it was just such a fun experience
that I've had a bunch of friends that they talked
about their kids playing it, and I'm like, I'm in
my thirties playing it having a great time. I love
that your five year old is having a great time.
So it's it's just it stands generations. Well.
Speaker 1: I love the way that my son in law will
play with with my grandchild and it's like, man, I
wish I would have had that to play, you know,
to go gaming with my father. Know all we had
was professional wrestling on Sunday mornings together. I wish it
would have been gaming.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, hey, now you can do professional wrestling
on your PlayStation with two K so it comes full
circle for you, kid.
Speaker 1: To not move. We'll be right back with Kristin Satani
from PlayStation coming up next. She's head of all the
content at PlayStation and she's got a lot of new
talk for you. Kristin Zatani. One of the things that
I have really fallen in love with are all these
darn videos that are showing up that starts from your
guys's gaming with the professional wrestling, because I've got to
sit there and think, is this real? What's going on here?
I mean, everything looks so authentic anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tech, the tech of the console itself has moved
forward so much, so like we have a ton of
sports tales and I'm sorry, n I'll be the show
twenty six NBA.
Speaker 3: So many acronyms mixing up on my mvs and nbas.
Speaker 2: But what's so much fun about that is you can
be watching a game on TV or you're you know,
able to maybe attend a game, and then you go
and play it and like the character the athletes look
exactly like they do in real life, So you really
get to become them like it is.
Speaker 3: It is like never before. So yeah, it has been
so much fun.
Speaker 2: And I know NBA two k's out right now, I
will be the show twenty six is just around the
corner in March. So yeah, I love that for sports
fans because there's so many great sports games out there
that they get to sort of like become the pro.
Speaker 1: With the gaming being so big so popular, are there
fantasy sports attached to the to to everything that's going
on with PlayStation.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not sure that is probably like the
one thing that I'm not as. I'm not sure with
fantasy sports like that.
Speaker 1: No, but because there might be never know, because I
mean everybody's sitting there there talking to each other anyway,
with the headsets on and everything. And now we sit
there and I go, is anybody ever doing any fantasy games?
And they'll go, go, dude, just calm down, calm down, let
me get done with this and I'll get back to you,
and then you never get to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well I don't know about that, but I do know,
like to that point with multiplayers. So that's what our
PlayStation Plus subscription. It gives you access to the multiplayer
what I love about that is so I live on
the West Coast, My whole family lives on the East Coast.
My brother and I grew up gaming, and so it's
great because we can hop on together. We're in different
time zones, but I can still play with my brother,
catch up with him. We can find a game that
the two of us connect on, and so it's a
great community builder honestly that you're able to use the
PlayStation to connect the folks across the world.
Speaker 1: Really, what is it about Grand Theft? Because I will
sit there and I joke around with a younger audience
and things. I'll sit there and say, dude, before there
was gaming, I was actually stealing my brother's bare gap.
We did it the real way. If you want me
to show you how to do it, I'll do it
all right. But no, But really, what is the connection
though with Grand Theft? Because they keep coming up with
new ones and it's like, really.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think what folks love about it is
that it really just gives players this crazy amount of
freedom to explore. Like every time that they build a
new one, the world, the city that they build it
and set it in just feels bigger.
Speaker 3: They give them more and more freedom. The story is so.
Speaker 2: Much fun, and it's just this iconic open world like
and what you know, an open world game really means
that you get to take the reins and you get
to explore and decide, like, oh, you know, maybe I'll
focus on the story for now, or maybe I'll just
like wander off with this truck and see where it
takes me. And that's sort of the joy of the
Grand Theft Auto series. So we're really really excited that
Grand Theft Ato six is coming November nineteenth later this
year to PlayStation because it's one that gamers have been
waiting for years for the next one.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I work with the guys name is Josh.
His kid cannot get over the fact that there's a
new Wolverine coming out, And I just sit there and
I go, oh my god. I hope they make it
into a movie as well, because in this way, it's
like the full circle anymore.
Speaker 3: I mean it is.
Speaker 2: We live in such a great comic book fan time
right now, Like there's so much to enjoy, and I
feel like nerd culture has become the mainstream culture, like
that you are not the nerd anymore, Like you are
what's popular. But with Wolverine especially, we're so excited for
Marvel's Wolverine that's going to be out in Fall later
this year, and we're just going to deliver that.
Speaker 3: Like ultimate Wolverine fantasy.
Speaker 2: You know, like he's fast, he's furious, he's got the clause,
and you're in control, you know, exploring the world with him.
But I think that's what players love, is sort of
being being the character and becoming Wolverine is what's gonna
excite them.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that PlayStation should be in the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. And the reason why if
you knew how many people that I talk with, these musicians,
good old bad, Ugly whatever, they still they like releasing
music that gets onto these games. And I think it's
time that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame pays
close attention to the PlayStation because you're the one that's
putting those games out there.
Speaker 2: You know, there are some incredible soundtracks that come in
these games, Like I know our God of War series.
Speaker 3: Every time I hear there's sort of like this chanting
like that starts of the game, I get goosebumps every
time I hear it.
Speaker 2: So I totally get that, And yeah, I think the
PlayStation and gaming in general, like we have sort of
become entertainment, Like it has joined the culture in the
way that movies and music have that it's just become ubiquitous.
But what I love about PlayStation is that so many
of our stories are just this incredible, like human driven experiences,
and the music is absolutely part of that.
Speaker 3: So I love music soundtracks.
Speaker 2: I often work a lot listening just to music soundtracks
in the background, so I totally get it.
Speaker 1: Well, this is how it affects me as a mobile
DJ is that when I go to these high school
and middle school parties and I'm sitting there playing their
favorite songs, they want it from the game boys, they
want it from from PlayStation and stuff, and I'm going,
I just did not know. But that's how much how
it's a part of everybody's life. Is that if they're
getting it on PlayStation, then that DJ should be playing
it as well.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I mean I think kids are tapped into
a lot of great stuff, Like I know with Fortnite
even there's so many great crossovers with music artists that
are popular right now. I know Chapel Roone recently just
came to Fortnite and things like that. K Pop Demon
Hunters is in Fortnite. I know that was an exciting
one in my house.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it is just it's become sort of this
cross cultural experience that if you're gaming, you're really getting
the best of, like the best version of movies and
music and everything, because you're living it, you're breathing it,
you're experiencing it as a gamer.
Speaker 1: Okay, now you being part of PlayStation and with all
of these new games coming out now, is there an
all access pass to your to your your next level
of play to where people can play all these or
what do you suggest for these people that are going,
oh my god, I can't afford that one yet. What
am I gonna do? What am I going to do?
And I'm thinking I'm just gonna ask Christen, She's going
to tell me the dang truths.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the number one thing that they can
do is sign up for one of our PlayStation Plus subscriptions.
So we have a couple different versions of it, so
there's something for everybody of what level of gaming you
want to dive into. But the best thing about PlayStation Plus,
it's going to give you. We got free monthly games.
So every month we come out with a new group
of games that you're going to be able to download directly.
Because you're a PlayStation Plus subscriber, you got exclusive discounts
all throughout the year. This is what's going to give
you access to online multiplayers. So again, if you want
to be playing with friends, PlayStation Plus is going to
be the way to do that. But then I always
shouting from the rooftops for folks is that we have
something called the Game Catalog that comes with the PlayStation
Plus subscription. This gives you access to hundreds of games
in our catalog that some of them are newer titles
that are joining it more recently. Some of them are
older games that were out on the PS one PS
two that you know I was playing in the nineties,
but I was a little kid, so maybe I wasn't
playing some of the scarier games. Now that I'm older,
I want to dive back in and sort of see
what I missed. Or there's folks who have nostalgia of
you know, I love that game back in the day,
I want to play it again on my PS five.
Game Catalog is going to give you access to a
ton of games like that, and then now you know,
tossing the ability, you can now stream games. So then
rather than having to physically have a disc or download
the game, you can if you have PlayStation Plus, you
can stream it directly, hit play and just start up gaming.
So it is absolutely a great bang for your bucket.
It's a great way to discover games really without having
to purchase them individually.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's a way of life when you're
when you're online. Service to your house is asking do
you game because they want to know, because I mean,
because they get it. They good. If we're in there
gaming and they're not giving us the energy, then they're gone.
So they've they've got to play with us in order
to make sure that we get our PlayStation with no interruptions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's I feel like the PlayStation has
become just like an essential part, I know, for for
my house.
Speaker 3: We have a living room one, we have a bedroom one.
Like everybody in my family.
Speaker 2: I'm like, we got to get you guys set up
so that we can play together, and it's just become
such a staple of our home honestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, here's the thing that we all need to
brace for. And that is my Jordan winning the Daytona.
You know, NASCAR on PlayStation is gonna change this moment forward.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I cannot wait to see what happens
with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I mean, now now it's like what Jordan
won something big. Oh my god, I've bought his basketball,
I've bought this, I bought this. Now I gotta do
the NASCAR one too, because it's Jordan.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the thing is that you can hop
into these legends basically when we see that with the
we see that with the NBA games, we see that
with the MLB. I know we have an MVP on
the cover right now for MLB. I believe it's Aaron Judge.
His name was leaving my brain person kit, but Baseball
MVP Aaron.
Speaker 3: Judge is on the cover right now.
Speaker 2: So that's the thing too, is I know that all
of these pros like they are also actively so excited
for these titles too, and they love to be part
of that world and part of your household playing as well.
So I know sports fans have a lot to play
on PlayStation.
Speaker 1: All right, what about hockey? Because I'm gonna tell you
right now. I am really hooked on the women plane
hockey on the Olympics right now. I want me a
game that's going to be with the women playing hockey,
because I think they play rougher than the guys do.
Speaker 2: Oh my, you know, I honestly believe that the ladies
are doing so well on the ice.
Speaker 3: I love to see it.
Speaker 2: I love seeing women's hockey taking off, honestly. Uh. But yeah,
we have NHL games on PlayStation as well, so there
is absolutely if you're if you're loving a sport and
you're starting to pick it up.
Speaker 3: We got golf, we have PGA.
Speaker 2: If you if you love a sport, you can find
a version of it that you can be picking up
on PlayStation as well. So maybe, you know, maybe you're
a little rusty in real life, but you might become
a pro while playing.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm Christian. This is this is the
kind of freak that I am. The very second that
I'll jump into Major League Baseball or I'll go into
one with with with like the NFL or something, and said,
I start I start playing that I am the announcer,
and while I'm doing the game, I'm sitting there going well,
he's coming up here to the plate. He's going, Oh,
it looks like it could be a ball one, and
it's like, shut up, dude, people are watching that.
Speaker 2: That is how I am with so, like when Marvel
took on fighting that we were talking about like I'm not,
maybe not necessarily the best player of them, but I
love to sit and watch and I love to be.
Speaker 3: Like oh in the right hook right there and just
announcing what's happening.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, But I don't know, like that makes such a
good point that there's just so much to be had.
There's so much entertainment happening on PlayStation as well, that
there's every genre that you can think of is happening.
Speaker 1: I would love to see what kind of research you
get in the meetings that you hold, because with us
being hooked up to PlayStation like that, I mean that
means that you can physically see how long we stay
with the game, how often we play the game, and
more importantly, why hasn't he touched that game in about
a month? And toe me, that is information that is
valuable to my soul.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think a really fun thing that we
do every year we have something called the PlayStation Wrap
Up so it's kind of you know, you see a
lot of companies have something at the end of the
year that's like, hey, how much were you playing? How
much were you listening? And we have something like that
as well, called the PlayStation wrap Up. You can see
what your your most top five most played games were
of that year. I know for me last year it
was our game Ghosts to vote. It's this like Samurai
Revenge Story. It was so much fun and I knew
it was going to be number one because I remembered
playing so many hours of it. But what's so much
fun about that is it tells you exactly how many
hours you were playing. It says like what your favorite
genre was. It even said which controller you use the most,
which was a lot of fun to see. And you
could sort of share with friends of like, oh, which
one was your top one and see how long you were.
Speaker 3: Playing, even if you're playing the same games.
Speaker 2: I played one game that I had spent sixty hours
in and another friend had been it in thirty hours.
Speaker 3: And I was like, what was I doing?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 3: I played it double the length that you did.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a lot of fun to be able
to share those stats of folks.
Speaker 1: So are we gaming snobs when like, for instance, like
my neighbor just put together this thing that had all
old school space Invaders and I kind of went, eh, okay,
and it's like, wow, stepping back in your past, buddy,
why don't you get back up here where the rest
of us are? Am I just being a snob when
I act like that when people want to go back
to old school, I mean.
Speaker 2: I think is always going to be a love for
that era, for that time and that style. And I
think the great thing about gaming is that, of course
there's going to be you know, the technologically advanced, like
moving of the industry of how do we get it
photo realistic, how do we make it look like it's
never looked before, But there's so much love for that
retro gaming style, and so there are absolutely studios who
are still working in building out games that they're a
modern game and it's playing on a PS five, but
it's going to have the look and feel of a
retro style game.
Speaker 3: And so you're getting that in some of our mainline series.
Speaker 2: Of course, you could go play God of War, which
is one of the most like stunning visual games. But
just last week we were able to announce we had
a new God of War title God of War Sons
of Sparta that is a two D action platformer and
sort of more of that retro style platforming look. And
that's so much fun that we're able to give that
variety for players, so that yes, of course, if you
want the tech advanced, if you want the visually, you know,
your eyeballs are.
Speaker 3: Just like, is this even real? We have that for you.
But then we also have something for folks who are
looking for that more arcade style nostalgic look.
Speaker 1: God twenty minutes with you is just not enough, and
it's just I just oh my god. So where can
people go to find out more about you your lineup,
because I mean, I mean, you've got Double O seven
coming up here. You know, we're all a bunch of
freaks when it comes to Double O seven. I mean,
everything that you've got at PlayStation is so in tune
with setting up a great year in front of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we're always just looking for what's coming next.
You can head to PlayStation Blog. That's going to be
your number one source of how our team is always
sharing the lease dates, new infos. You can see trailers
and anything you need to know about what's coming to PlayStation,
you can head to PlayStation Blog and we'll have it
there for you.
Speaker 1: And will PlayStation work for me when we finally make
it up to Mars. That's that's the most important question
here today.
Speaker 3: We'll do what we can.
Speaker 1: Well, you'd be brilliant today, Okay, use all.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for the time