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This Week In The Business: Oops, Bad Choice Of Words
6QUOTE | “We’re very close to having the first VR death.” – Denny Unger, creative director at Cloudhead Games, talking during Unite 2014 about the very real dangers developers will grapple with in VR.
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This Week In The Business: Virtual Reality Can Be Bad
QUOTE | “There are a lot of ways you can mess up VR really easily.” — nDreams’ Patrick O’Luanaigh, talking about his studio’s switch to virtual reality and how difficult it is to design good VR games.
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This Week In The Business: Free-To-Play Failure
QUOTE | “It will start to tail off because the people who play the games will recognise when they’re about to be nickled and dimed, and stop playing them.” — MMO pioneer Richard Bartle, arguing that free-to-play games have a “half-life” and will soon start to fail.
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This Week In The Business: Turn The Wii U Around
QUOTE | “I think we are right at that tipping point where we have a lot of great content that is about to be released for [the Wii U] that’s going to tempt gamers into buying the system.” — Scott Moffitt, EVP of sales and marketing for Nintendo of America, talking about how the Wii…