What's happened in the business of video games this past week ...
QUOTE | "Game consoles are fundamentally doomed."?Richard Garriott, designer of the Ultima series discussing the state of the game industry.
QUOTE | "Xbox 360's a must have holiday item."?EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich says that people pepper spraying other customers over Xbox 360 shows how hugely in demand Microsoft's console is right now.
QUOTE | "Steam makes piracy a non-issue."?Valve co-founder Gabe Newell on how Steam's service is like DRM that customers can love.
STAT | 2.37 million? Number of Nintendo 3DS units sold in 8 months in the USA surpassing the number of DS units sold in the first 12 months.
QUOTE | "If you care about games you're going to want a Vita."?Michael Denny, Sony Worldwide Studios Senior VP on why the PS Vita is going to be a very important system for Sony and for gamers.
QUOTE | "The Wii U consumer is going to be a different consumer."? Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, on how Nintendo is targeting a different audience than the current Wii buyer.
QUOTE | "Assassin's Creed can be carried on forever."?Ubisoft's SVP of Sales and Marketing talks about the advantage of the meta story around Assassin's Creed, which lends itself to numerous possibilities.
QUOTE | "Critics can be jerks, but they're very much worth listening to."?Scott Steinberg, CEO of video game consulting firm TechSavvy Global, talking about the 5 hard lessons every game developer must learn.
STAT | 3?Number of key Sony PlayStation executives that have left in the last eight months.
STAT | 8 million?Number of units of Battlefield 3 sold worldwide since EA shipped 12 million units initially.
QUOTE | "It would be undesirable to launch PS4 significantly later than the competition."?Jim Ryan, PlayStation Europe head, on why Sony doesn't want to give Microsoft a head start on the next generation console this time.
QUOTE | "PS3 sales were very strong during Black Friday weekend."?Sony spokesperson talking about the demand for PS3 and games during the kickoff weekend for holiday sales.
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Source: http://kotaku.com/5864676/this-week-in-the-business-game-consoles-are-fundamentally-doomed
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