PlayStation’s 2025 Year in Review - Beyond 927
12/30/202554 min
This week, we’re taking a look back at PlayStation’s 2025, from game releases to hardware announcements, corporate reorgs to global politics. The PS5 has had a wonderful year, breaking the 80 million sales mark, but it also saw price hikes at a time in the console life cycle when hardware usually gets cheaper. With this in mind, we’re in no hurry for a PlayStation 6, but Sony is definitely working on something behind the scenes. Beyond! 00:00 - Intro 02:38 - PlayStation’s 2025 Year in Review 05:49 - Do you Miss Your PS4? 27:49 - Brian is a BIG TIME MLB The Show fan 33:58 - PlayStation’s 2025 Year in Review Continued 34:29 - New PlayStation Hardware 38:40 - Did PlayStation Do a Good Job In 2025? 42:23 - PlayStation needs to get weird again 44:01 - Should PlayStation Make a New Handheld? This weeks show is Hosted by Max Scoville, Brian Altano, Jada Griffin, Nick Maillet, and is produced by Nick Maillet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsMax Scoville· Host0:00
Beyond and hello, and welcome once again to IGN's Weekly PlayStation Show. I'm your host, Max Scoville. And coming up, we are taking a look back at the major events around PlayStation in 2025 and maybe saying what we hope to see from the company in 2026. Let's get into it.
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