Trip Hawkins Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.

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#7. Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

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#8. [PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.

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

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#16. [The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

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

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#18. You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

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#19. 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.

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

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

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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!

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#25. 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.

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#26. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

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#27. 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.

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

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

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

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