46 ordspråk av Trip Hawkins
Trip Hawkins
All those kids that played video games ten years ago, they're adults now and they've got even more money to spend, and there's a whole bunch of new kids as well.
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And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.
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Anything that comes along that gives people a new way to have social contact, they adopt it.
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As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.
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Besides, games like total eclipse and john madden football combine great texture-mapping and polygon rendering, and that's a pretty satisfactory experience right now.
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But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.
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But I think it was pretty painful for Microsoft on the first Xbox and it is not unreasonable to treat it as an upgrade add-on.
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But if you brought a machine last year, you're not going to buy another system this year - no matter how good it is.
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But we're fairly comfortable that our next generation hardware will blow everything those guys are doing out of the water!
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Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.
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Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!
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Guys aren't apt to call up each other and say, 'Hi, I'm lonely ... let's talk.' They're much more inclined to join a baseball fantasy league or participate in a March Madness-type score-guessing group.
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HD will only be relevant in the long run if applications like football use it effectively to enable you to see more of the field.
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I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
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I don't think prices will go up, in part because gamers can always rent the games.
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