Trip Hawkins Quotes
"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."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Pretty, Years)
"The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Time, People, Titles)
"The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Being)
"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."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Time)
"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."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Effort, Focus, Key, Marketing, Software)
"We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there."
- Trip Hawkins
"With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Hardware, Will)
"Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Will)
"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."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Time, Learning, Machine, Radical, Trying)
"We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Want)
"But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Support)
"None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Software)
"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."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Change, Effect, Result)
"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."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Film, Publishing)
"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!"
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Nothing, Summer, Sun, Winter)
"From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Day, Software, Will)
"I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Successful)
"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."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Performance, Difference, First, Saying)
"If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?"
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Right)
"As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Innovation, Internet, Result, Will)