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

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.
Trip Hawkins

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

But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.
Trip Hawkins

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

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

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.
Trip Hawkins

I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
Trip Hawkins

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

If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?
Trip Hawkins


None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.
Trip Hawkins

Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.
Trip Hawkins

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

The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.
Trip Hawkins

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.
Trip Hawkins

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

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

We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.
Trip Hawkins

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

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.
Trip Hawkins