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Joey Chiu joins the podcast as a guest this week. He is my friend and a gamer. He was also the first person to buy a PlayStation 4. If you go back to November 2013 and look for news stories from the launch of that console, you’ll find plenty about Joey waiting in line to get the first PS4 in New York City. I actually hung out with Joey that week. I was in town for the PS4 launch event where Sony enabled journalists to get hands-on time with the machine and face-to-face time with the developers. And at night, we would mingle -- remember that? Mingling? -- and Joey was there and I knew him from our time in the 1UP community. So we talked and hung out and then a few days later, his photo was everywhere as the first person to buy a PS4.

Well, I realized that I hadn’t had a gamer’s perspective on this show before, so I wanted to do that. And who could possibly be better than the first PS4 owner? This will give me a chance to take his temperature on the PS5. We recorded this before Sony announced its Wednesday PS5 Showcase. But we went over each possible price point and tried to figure out if Joey was going to be among the first to buy a PS5.

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How Games Make MoneyBy Jeff GrubbJul 20, 2020