QUOTE | “I wouldn’t even say the gap has closed… We’ve got a lot more exclusive games than any other platform.” – Microsoft VP Kudo Tsunoda, talking about why he believes the Xbox One is a much stronger platform now QUOTE | “When we say a consumer product, we mean a consumer price point… Grandma is not buying a thousand dollar product for the kids.” – CEO David Henkel-Wallace of augmented reality startup CastAR, talking about how their headset is designed for a broad audience
QUOTE | “Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a new Electronic Arts, Activision scale company that was built from this moment forwards instead of having its roots basically back in the mid-80s?” – Neil Young, CEO and co-founder of N3TWORK, rhetorically explaining his goals for his new mobile game venturecnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1725846183","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"culture","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"culture","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); QUOTE | “It’s a game I wanted to make, not to play…There’s
no way anybody would want to play this game.” – Indie developer Zach Barth, talking about his game TIS-100 about assembly language programming and how it’s found success despite his worries
QUOTE | “A few key franchises for consoles continuously make up a large percentage of revenue each year; however, I think it is shocking to see mobile is following the same pattern already.” – NPD analyst Liam Callahan, talking about the spending patterns of mobile game players in the USA
QUOTE | “If I go to make a decision about
l86.com สล็อต the game design that the rest of the team doesn’t agree with or they think is going to damage the game, everyone jumps out of their chairs.” – League of Geeks co-founder Blake Mizzi, talking about
how they gamified salaries for everyone making their first game Armello QUOTE | “I think it’s probably dead-just like the Wii Vitality Sensor was before and they didn’t tell anybody.” – Wedbush Securities’ Michael Pachter, talking about why he thinks we haven’t heard anything from Nintendo about its “Quality of Life” initiative that was supposed to appear by March 2016
STAT | $4.2
HUC million – Amount of revenue that mobile game Monster Strike took in every day for the last three months, almost all in Japan; publisher Mixi reaped $127.9 million in profit for the quarter, and will launch the game soon in North America QUOTE | “The investment interest we’re seeing is far exceeding our expectations.” – Fig CEO Justin
Bailey, talking about how the new game crowdfunding platform raised $500,000 in two days for its first project, The Outer Wilds QUOTE | “The publisher model does not work in mobile. Because of the razor thin margins there’s not enough pie to split.” – FlowPLay’s Derrick Morton, explaining why he thinks the mobile game market is “really, really broken.”
QUOTE | “The illegal trade offerings that have been offered to date come with certain risks
HUC99 and uncertainties for gamers and no renumeration for the game creators.” – CEO Alexander Höptner of Swapster, talking about how this new company enabling virtual item trades will be much better for gamers and the industry QUOTE | “We haven’t always made the right decisions and we haven’t always performed the best we should. We are all well aware of that.” – Funcom CEO Rui Casais, talking about how the company is hoping to get out of debt with the right investor Top image via Shutterstock