Mike Mahardy
speaker
5,442 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Mike Mahardy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Will we see the ripple effect similar to what we'll talk about with PlayStation in a second of well, if you paid Hideo Kajima X amount of money, where are you going to get that money, right?
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Is Microsoft coming in here with Satya Nadella to try to do something with that on the outside?
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Or is it, hey, we're going to have to cut more studios?
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We have to lay off more people.
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Where's this money coming from?
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But I think they this is a move that they probably looked at and go, this would be so huge for us as we struggle to maintain our player base, slash try to entice more people to come over here.
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We talk about Todd Howard with Bethesda and those kind of games.
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Friends.
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It's like these are the titles that you have to have to compete with PlayStation, who is known for killer cinematic.
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action adventure experiences that have been whooping your butt all generation long.
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I totally agree with you.
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Of course, in Jason Schreier's Bloomberg article, it says one major factor behind the decision to part ways with Kojima was the commercial performance of the previous two games, Death Stranding and its sequel, which didn't meet PlayStation's revenue expectations.
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Of course, I totally agree with you on this, Madeline.
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Right?
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We talk about what the expectations are for Kojima's follow-up to Metal Gear Solid with the stealth espionage title.
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That's where the money's at, right?
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Right.
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Right.
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I I think it's hard to imagine when we rewind time to go to any general mass audience game player who knows Metal Gear probably and go, hey man.
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The guy who made Metal Gear, he's making a new game.
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