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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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Trip Hawkins
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: December 28
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You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.
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[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.
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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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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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[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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With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.
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None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.
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Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.
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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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Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.
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If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?
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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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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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From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.
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I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
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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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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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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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