John Taylor
John Taylor
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The thing that drives hardware sales is a cool game you can't get anywhere else.
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Sega is one of the handful of companies that can aspire to be one of the global leaders in game software, ... They can be a king maker for a platform.
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There's been a lot of hand wringing going on because of what the cost outlook is for game development for the next set of platforms, ... I think there's a growing feeling that in order to build and launch a game you're going to have to start at the $20 million mark - $10 million to build the game and $10 to launch it with a big splash. In order to be able to make any money on that kind of investment, you either have to assume some substantial unit numbers, which are hard to do in the first year or two of a platform's existence, or you've got to raise prices.
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I think we ought to assume that $59.99 is going to be the place we start for game prices,
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Opening price points are still where they were. In other words, you still launch at $49, but after a few weeks go by, demand dries up. So you're not seeing games hold the price point as long.
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It is one thing to say you're going to introduce online gaming, but it is another thing to say it's really fun to play with, ... Just because a console's Web-enabled doesn't mean it's fun to play with. Somebody's got to come up with an online game that people want to play.
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We're getting to the point where it's important for each platform to have unique, differentiated titles -- so that if consumers want to buy that game, they have to buy that system
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The difference in taste has become more pronounced during the last generation, as top Japanese games no longer cross the ocean with a high degree of surety, and very few Western games become top sellers in Japan .
We just want to go out there and get those processors.
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What's truly fascinating about these 201 hours...is what they really do reveal about Watergate,
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The problem has not been observed in a production environment or with commercial applications. The total number of customers involved is in the low hundreds and we expect to make some replacements. After we explained the issue, some customers have told us it is not a concern, but we're going to go the extra mile for any of those who want a replacement.
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We certainly would not work with Sinn Fein whilst they retain a fully armed army,
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We think it's a blip - and nothing serious - but we'll see how he is over the next few days.
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Few Americans are clamoring for legislation that would allow mega-mergers among the nation's largest financial institutions.