How the PlayStation took over Sony, and games took over the world

By Christine Chubb

Posted December 7, 2020 5:13 am.

In today’s Big Story podcast, you probably don’t have a PlayStation 5. And even if you don’t want one, there’s likely someone in your life who is desperate to get their hands on it. Sony — a company that once sold just about every kind of electronics imaginable—has become ‘The PlayStation Company’. And this Christmas marks the first skirmish in the latest console war between it and Microsoft’s X-Box.

How did video games come to dominate the future of two of the world’s biggest tech companies? How did they come to dominate so much of our entertainment landscape? What’s on the horizon for these new consoles? (And also: If you can find them, which one should you buy?)

GUEST: Seth Schiesel, contributor at the New York Times, contributing editor at Protocol.com

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