“Whilst the IRA and Sinn Fein continue to say there will be no decommissioning of illegal armaments, I have no reason to be optimistic about the outcome of these talks.”
“I think the DC is in a position to benefit for the shortage. Sega's key strategy now is to identify Dreamcast with online gaming ... If Sega can get that grounded, then I think the Dreamcast is in a position to stick around for a long time.”
“It's a small number, but it's not unusual for an entrepreneur who goes looking for money and is turned down to go back, retool their business plan and come back at them again. It's not as formidable as it sounds.”
“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.”
“We're coming off several quarters in a row where commercial IT buyers were not buying much of anything. That's the limitation. It's going to take several quarters for demand to rebuild so the IPO market will be coming back in baby steps.”
“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.”
