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From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.
Trip Hawkins
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Trip Hawkins
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: December 28
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Pasadena
California
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One quality of entrepreneurship is just persistence, not giving up because you have road blocks and also not giving in because other people tell you that you're nuts. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.
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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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As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.
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But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.
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[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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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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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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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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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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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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The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.
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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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