John Taylor
John Taylor
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I think its safe to say that Sony is going for the broadest possible audience you can imagine, ... For the year 2000, PlayStation has a pretty big window of opportunity. It is unclear at this point if there is any serious competition.
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I'm proud of what the team has been able to accomplish this year and I was thrilled to see that work recognized at the regional competition. We are, of course, preparing for the national competition in May, and we hope to represent Drury well at that time, too.
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There's been a lot of hand wringing going on because of what the cost outlook is for game development for the next set of platforms, ... I think there's a growing feeling that in order to build and launch a game you're going to have to start at the $20 million mark - $10 million to build the game and $10 to launch it with a big splash. In order to be able to make any money on that kind of investment, you either have to assume some substantial unit numbers, which are hard to do in the first year or two of a platform's existence, or you've got to raise prices.
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I thought something else should have been done at the time. But I'm not a medical doctor.
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I think we ought to assume that $59.99 is going to be the place we start for game prices,
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It is one thing to say you're going to introduce online gaming, but it is another thing to say it's really fun to play with, ... Just because a console's Web-enabled doesn't mean it's fun to play with. Somebody's got to come up with an online game that people want to play.
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I think Sony will do a price cut in the fall. Now, if Xbox were to catch fire and look like it's going sell 5 or 6 million units, then Sony may change it's mind, but I don't think that's going to happen.
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Japan is probably becoming a bit more influential in the day-to-day management decisions at Nintendo of America. It seems that might have been going on for a little while.
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Opening price points are still where they were. In other words, you still launch at $49, but after a few weeks go by, demand dries up. So you're not seeing games hold the price point as long.
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We are treating it like a big deal. We have fought hard to establish credibility in the enterprise so we're taking a very aggressive approach in addressing this.
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Our council needs to know what we are agreeing with down the road. I don't see how anybody can work with that agreement.
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It affected (network) traffic going to and coming from the West Coast and other Western parts of the U.S..