Trip Hawkins Quotes

"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."

"We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there."

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

"Lower labor costs and tax benefits have, for example, caused publishers like EA, UbiSoft, and others to move more production to Canada."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"HD will only be relevant in the long run if applications like football use it effectively to enable you to see more of the field."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into."

"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."

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

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

"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."