Trip Hawkins
Trip Hawkins
Trip Hawkinsis an American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, and Digital Chocolate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth28 December 1953
CountryUnited States of America
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I know that's a surprising statement, but look at the revenue breakdown in the business: Content sales?meaning games, music, video, etc.?brings in less than 1 percent of all wireless IT revenue. Voice is a $98 billion dollar market, and data is at $4 billion. But content is only a small slice of the $4 billion data figure.
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Anything that comes along that gives people a new way to have social contact, they adopt it.
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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.
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I shouldn't speculate a lot about what their plans are because every company feels differently about when to announce what they're doing with 3DO.
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All those kids that played video games ten years ago, they're adults now and they've got even more money to spend, and there's a whole bunch of new kids as well.
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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.
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Today's top-rated games leverage the available infrastructure to deliver a rich experience and also leverage the inherent social connectivity that mobile gaming offers consumers. Digital Chocolate is highly supportive of this group's effort to advance the platform for mobile gaming and to enable a better user experience.
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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.
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We don't think we need a next-generation product until there's more pressure in the marketplace.
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We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.
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You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.
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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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There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.
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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.