10 million -- The number of Nintendo Switch systems expected to ship this year, according to Niko Partners' Daniel Ahmad. Other industry watchers have been less optimistic, with Superdata projecting 5 million systems this year, and IHS expecting 4.4 million.
"I'm tired of shooting people for no reason other than not getting killed." -- Martin Greip, art director of Eat, Create, Sleep, talking about games that lack meaning and how big budget games are "estranged from the real world."
"If you're going to be the Kool-Aid Man, you need to be able to bust through everything. There's nothing worse than saying, 'Oh, you can do all this stuff except when it's actually important. And then we're going to put up unbreakable walls.'" -- Stellar Jockeys' Hugh Monahan explains the fruit drink-inspired design ethos behind his studio's mech shooter Brigador.
"My motto is less poking, more stroking." -- Funomena CEO Robin Hunicke addressing the problem of the "power grip" configuration in VR controllers like Vive and how there needs to be a more relaxed, finesse or "precision grip".
"We see this as an excellent opportunity to build on the rich legacy of the Mega Man video game series and introduce the famous boy robot to a whole new generation of kids worldwide." -- DHX chief content officer Asaph Fipke gets everyone stoked for a new Mega Man cartoon.
"If Gears was realistic you wouldn't be running around in giant metal moon boots right?" -- The Coalition head Rod Fergusson, talking about getting a new team up to speed on Gears of War as they remake the original and prepare Gears of War 4
QUOTE | "The majority of those users probably wouldn't have bought the game anyway. So it's not like we're losing revenue... It's essentially free marketing." -- Monument Valley producer Dan Grey, talking about the fact that 95 per cent of the Android copies of Monument Valley are pirated.
