Trip Hawkins
Trip Hawkins
Trip Hawkinsis an American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, and Digital Chocolate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth28 December 1953
CountryUnited States of America
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We don't think we need a next-generation product until there's more pressure in the marketplace.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Lower labor costs and tax benefits have, for example, caused publishers like EA, UbiSoft, and others to move more production to Canada.
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We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.
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Steve never knew his parents. He makes so much noise in life, he cries so loud about everything, that I keep thinking he feels that if he just cries loud enough, his real parents will hear and know that they made a mistake giving him up.
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I think what's really happening in games right now is that there's something for everybody. The hardware is cheap. The systems are easy to use.
it isn't all about content. Not now, it isn't, anyway.
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Look at all the most successful online services we have now,
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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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What I see at this time is that there is a $94 billion gap to make up, and I think the mobile content industry can indeed catch up to voice. But I believe it'll take about eight years to do it.
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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.