 How is it going lads and ladies? It is Petrifying Pumpkins here and today I'm annoyed. Pissed off with Sony Playstation in some ways. Not a huge deal probably but still something that's gotten under my skin and has grinded my gears. Pissed in my cornflakes as it were. I'm wearing my Playstation t-shirt backwards as a sign of disrespect as I do when Playstation make a mistake. Because of this blog post, Playstation blog interview with Herman Hulst. Herman Hulst of course this gentleman here. He used to be the main guy at Gorilla Games. What's the word for the main guys? CEOs? No that's not right. Presidents? Probably the president. He was probably the president of Gorilla Games last year I think it was last year. He got promoted to head of like Playstation Worldwide Studios so he's kind of like he's under Jim Ryan but he's still up there. He took Shuhei Yoshida's job. Anyway I like Herman Hulst. He's a straight shooter you know he's I like the fact that he's got like a history with game development like he was in all them Killzone games the first Horizon game that was all him. So the fact that someone like him is the head of Playstation I always thought that was like a good idea even though I love Shuhei Yoshida and I think maybe he got did a little dirty or something I don't know but whatever regardless the point is that's not what annoys me it's not Herman Hulst it's what he's saying. So the title of this is what's next for Playstation Studios which is fine take a Q&A basically. So the first question do you see single player that's not that's not really interesting basically he's saying yes single player is important to us. Partnerships with second parodies is important to us that's the next question I'm going to get to the good stuff. I guess I should stare up by saying you know this isn't actually virtual reality realize it but because I am a bit of a Sony pony a bit of a Playstation fanboy as some people would say this does interest me a great deal and because this is a Playstation virtual reality dedicated channel maybe a lot of you guys are you know into Playstation stuff as well and not just virtual reality so it might be worth talking about. Basically what's pissing me off here is the fact that cross jeng games are like more pervasive than I was initially thinking. Okay so this is the big one here so how does Playstation 4 factor into Playstation Studios development vision is it still a focus internally for future game development. So Herman says it very much is you can't build a community of over 110 million ps4 owners and then just walk away from it right? You can. Or you don't have to walk away from it I mean look at the past generations we've had you can keep the third party stuff that can be cross jeng your FIFA's your college UZ's your battlefields all that shit that can go back and forward but there's no need to hold back well in this instance Gran Turismo 7 and God of War and of course Horizon as well there's no need to hold these games back with the ps4 I know from a business perspective makes perfect sense like if you shut them out you're shutting out a lot of money but in other ways it's making the Playstation 5 look less attractive in my opinion now that might not necessarily care about that because the ps5 is still selling like hotcakes if it's on the shelf it's gone the next second so that's probably not a big deal anyway let me keep reading and then I'll get to why I don't like this I think that'll be bad news for fans of the ps4 and frankly not very good business so I don't disagree with that necessarily it's not good business in one aspect but he'll go on to adhere to sec where it makes sense to develop a title for both ps4 and ps5 for horizon forbidden west the next god of war and gt7 and by the way I hate the way that it's just subtly dropped in there so for the longest time we knew horizon was going to both everyone kind of assumed god of war maybe will and I think most people thought gt7 was probably going to be ps5 exclusive but now he's just like oh by the way yeah god of war gt7 they're coming to ps4 too you know they're going to be held back by that 2013 hardware uh don't don't worry about that though you know we'll continue looking at that and if ps4 owners want to play that game then they can ps4 owners want to play our ps4 owners want to play that game they can buy ps5 I mean they can't because they're sold out but you get the point that I will be trying to make if they want to go on and play the ps5 version that game will be there for them that being said it's also very important to have showpieces for the ps5 hence the development of Returnal and Ratchet that are exclusive to ps5 two games Herman is that enough Returnal and Ratchet that are exclusive to ps5 I think maybe it's very important to have more than two games for showpieces for the ps5 in my opinion you know I mean look the example I always go to is horizon zero dawn the one that came out in 2017 I think it was one of the developers was interviewed they said that they wanted to have flying mounts in that game so in that game you're able to like override the machines and you can ride them there was like a deer one and a horse one or whatever they wanted to have the flying ones that Aloy could hijack and then you could fly around but because the ps4 is aging hardware even at the time they couldn't stream in the levels like you know the world I guess you should say fast enough so they had to scrap that otherwise it would have been just a very slow flying thing which would have been trash so obviously the fact that forbidden west also has to be running on that 2013 hardware you would imagine they're probably still not going to have flying mounts unless they found some kind of work around to get it working this time which maybe they have I'm not saying they won't but that's just like a very clear cut example of how having to run on 2013 hardware is going to hurt these games now they did have their horizon forbidden west showcase a few days ago in the game looks looks stunning run on the ps5 looks fantastic the ps4 version is definitely not going to look that good it's not the visuals that I'm worried about what god of war or grant resmo7 it's in terms of gameplay features you know I mean imagine god of war a big focus of the original game was moving between these realms you have to go to this room a travel room and then you'd load in and then those all these kind of crazy special effects or you'd go to the world tree god of war reagan rock if they focused on ps5 only maybe they could do like a ratcheting clank thing where it's like instant rift open up a rift walk into the different realm no need for all that like downtime so that's kind of annoying just wanted to get that off my chest wanted to rant about that and again I understand from their point of view it would be stupid kind of to leave all that money on the table because people you know they're going to buy even though as I say that I'm pretty sure Miles Morales sold way more on ps5 than it did on ps4 come on both so really in the end like would it really hurt their pocket a huge amount would it in the long run get more people eager to buy a ps5 I know everyone's eager to buy a ps5 but let's say they sell 20 million ps5's all of a sudden everyone who really wanted one has the one at that stage then you're talking about the people who are like well if it has enough good games then they're going to be looking at like oh well that's on ps4 do I really want to buy a ps5 for this and maybe sales of the ps5 will slow down because of these decisions you know that would be my way of looking at us not the end of the world I'm sure god of war 2 is going to be fantastic and horizon I know it looks fantastic already but you know I can't have thinking about you know the flying mounts are they out the window because of these decisions you know who knows what else we'll be missing out and then to talk about pc gaming as well and how important japan is I'm not too interested in those kind of stuff and I should also mention that the casually slid in that you know god of war got delayed to 2022 doesn't bother me at all as soon as I saw god of war 2021 I was like no way that's coming in 2021 it was just a logo reveal and hadn't shown anything since so I think everyone was expecting that to drop to 2022 so that doesn't bother me whatsoever but the fact that it's coming to ps4 and grant grant charisma probably less so but god of war that's a big one you know and the way he acknowledges as well you know it's always very important it's also very important to have showpieces for ps5 I couldn't agree more with that so why are you taking away showpieces for the ps5? Returnal excellent ratchet probably going to be excellent looks excellent but that's just two games when is the next ps5 exclusive you know after ratchet what's it going to be it's not going to be horizon that's on ps4 not going to be god of war that's not going to be on ps4 not going to be graduation seven so how long are we going to have to wait before we see another game take advantage of the ps5 properly like ratchet because ratchet cannot run on the ps4 because of what that game does in terms of like string like instant war like they built that into the game design so it's impossible for that to run if it was to run on ps4 it would be filled with like awful loaden times that would like break the flow of the gameplay or whatever and it would ruin us so yeah harman holst what are you doing people at playstation what are you doing you know I know you're thinking about the money but that's I feel like that's a short term maybe point of view maybe let's think of a little bit more long term anyway that's my rant over with maybe you agree with me maybe you disagree with me maybe you think I'm an idiot let me know I know already but you can let me know I'm an idiot as well in the comments below and that is this for this video thank you very much for watching before I go let me thank my patreon supporters whose names are on the screen as we speak thanks to their generosity they're keeping this channel nice and moist in particular the top tier patreon supporters whose names are on the screen right now tradition crumb pete halkins daniel the pumpkin patch kid and columbus thomas the third thank you for that generosity it helps me out big time if you'd like to help me on patreon as well the link will be in the description below finally before I go let me thank decepticon for letting me use his music and all my videos link to him will be in the description as well decepticon com with that out of the way thank you for watching i'll see you in the next one i hope stay moist