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Sep 2024
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Microcast: The PS5 Pro and Ubisoft's woe...

The GI.Biz Team
About this episode

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube.

This week, we are joined by Ampere Analysis' Piers Harding-Rolls to discuss Sony's unveiling of the PS5 Pro, its potential value as a product, and its sales prospects with that divisive price tag.

Elsewhere on this episode, we discuss Ubisoft's performance over the past few years and some of the biggest challenges the company faces, while in What Do The Numbers Mean? we look at the early performance for some key recent releases, including Astro Bot and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2.

As always, you can get more news, insight and analysis at www.gamesindustry.biz, and you can get all the biggest news delivered straight to your inbox by signing up to the GI Daily at www.gamesindustry.biz/newsletters.


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