Andrew Hacker Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

There have always been a lot of exclusive licenses and sometimes the publisher cuts some corners or gets a bit lazy and the quality goes down.

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

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!

Lower labor costs and tax benefits have, for example, caused publishers like EA, UbiSoft, and others to move more production to Canada.

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.

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

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

We`re all going to be dead in 100 years, so in the meantime if you want to use the most advanced system this year, then you have to buy a 3DO.

I can`t tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.

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.

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

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.