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
Trip Hawkins quotes about
gamers prices rent
I don't think prices will go up, in part because gamers can always rent the games.
online services successful
Look at all the most successful online services we have now,
apt baseball call fantasy guys inclined join league lonely march
Guys aren't apt to call up each other and say, 'Hi, I'm lonely ... let's talk.' They're much more inclined to join a baseball fantasy league or participate in a March Madness-type score-guessing group.
cries feels giving hear knew loud mistake mistakes noise parents steve thinking
Steve never knew his parents. He makes so much noise in life, he cries so loud about everything, that I keep thinking he feels that if he just cries loud enough, his real parents will hear and know that they made a mistake giving him up.
advanced american-businessman buy dead meantime system
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.
american-businessman
We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.
life-lesson believe nuts
You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.
summer winter chocolate
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!
successful japan important
I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
waiting wanted something-better
If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?
generations next rendering
With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.
technology events share
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.
way scared being-scared
The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.
keys games focus
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.