Trip Hawkins Quotes

• 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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• 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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• As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

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• Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

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• From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software – so that gives us a head start.

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• None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

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• I’m not saying that more performance wouldn’t be better – all these technologies are going to get better – that’s the difference between first generation and second generation.

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• We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.

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• The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

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• With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we’ll get more heavily into.

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• If you always wanted to wait for something better, you’d never buy anything, right?

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• So the guy that we’re really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he’s ready to buy something new.

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• But we also think that we’ve got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.

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• There’s a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that’s true of all types of consumer electronics.

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• What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine – and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.

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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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• The only problem we’ve had is the amount of time it’s taking people to develop titles.

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• We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.

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• We’ll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.

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Trip Hawkins (21)

Birth:	28th December, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Entrepreneur, Founder

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