Trip Hawkins Quotes

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

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!

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.

I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.

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.

Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

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.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.

If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.

I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.

Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.

We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. That's true of all types of consumer electronics.