This week on the Solid State Podcast things go… a little wide… I solemnly swear, we sat down for our “news” segment to simply touch on the fact that iOS 18 in all of it’s glory and missing features had dropped this week, with a little “tomorrow is new iPhone day” added in for flavor. Instead, dear friends and listeners, is a caffeine-fueled journey through our collective fix for everything wrong (apparently) in tech, media, gaming, and possibly intergalactic politics? I’m still a little fuzzy on that one…

As we burst out the other side, the thing we actually came to talk about takes shape in the early coverage of Sony’s upcoming Playstation 5 “Pro”… I know this is an audio format, but I so very sincerely hope you can both hear the air-quotes around the word and, frankly, see the eye roll now forever locked on my face… 

Is it an upgrade? Is the upgrade worth the price? What does the word “Pro” even mean any more? If you think that’s all you were going to get from this week’s feature… well… yeah you guessed it… it devolved into yet a second caffeine-fueled journey through our collective fix for everything wrong (apparently) in tech, media, gaming, and possibly intergalactic politics… No, really, I have no idea…

We usually record this in the wee hours of the morning, and due to all-things-life this one hit right after 5pm on a lovely September evening… and maybe that’s the problem with us being a little too awake when the record button was pressed… 

Either way, this is a fun one guys, so pause your current game of Astro Bot and let’s take a little journey…