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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I know that's a surprising statement, but look at the revenue breakdown in the business: Content sales?meaning games, music, video, etc.?brings in less than 1 percent of all wireless IT revenue. Voice is a $98 billion dollar market, and data is at $4 billion. But content is only a small slice of the $4 billion data figure.
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We are in Moscone West. This is the small Moscone. Across the street, you've got Moscone Center. You know what's going on there right now? It's all doctors, and they're learning about all the new drugs they're going to give us. Because we're not happy. And we're not sure why,
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None of the microprocessors Sony and Sega are using in their systems were available at the time we designed ours.
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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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I shouldn't speculate a lot about what their plans are because every company feels differently about when to announce what they're doing with 3DO.
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Anything that comes along that gives people a new way to have social contact, they adopt it.
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Sorry to say it, but an awful lot of us are not happy, and we're not sure why. We're bored and lonely. Too often we're popping Prozac. We want to interact and be entertained constantly.
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SONY have had a graphic workstation business; they understand polygon rendering and have special customers that demand it.
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SEGA and SONY are anxious, and they're just trying to mess up our plans as best they can by promising the world everything.
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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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It is very unfortunate that it is now very hard to innovate because of the cost-structure.
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But if you brought a machine last year, you're not going to buy another system this year - no matter how good it is.