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
running two made
None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.
moments arcades fashionable
Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.
mistake successful entrepreneur
If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.
keys games focus
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.
mean games machines
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.
summer winter chocolate
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!
successful japan important
I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
years two apples
If you look at any institution in history - look at the Roman Empire - anything in history, and what it looks like when it's peaking. Look at Apple, and how can you say it's not peaking? ... The thing is, it may take another year or two before it starts to decline, but it has to - everything does.
humanity canvas playstation
[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.
way historic printing
[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.
technology differences get-better
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.
technology events share
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.
generations next rendering
With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.
looks wells models
We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.