this week in the business
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This Week In The Business: Expectations Manager 2016
QUOTE | “Me and my son have an Xbox One, and we wanted to play Battlefield 1 or Titanfall 2, and we didn’t get that opportunity. I was like, c’mon man, I didn’t come here to buy stuff. I came here to enjoy games.” – A father discusses the “really disappointing” open-to-the-public E3 Live show…
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This Week In The Business: Our Human Potential
“We are providing challenge in the games we make, and people are growing inside those economies. In a world of digital content and user-generated content, we are providing self-actualisation for a great many of our players.” — Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson, saying his customers are achieving their human potential by playing EA games.
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This Week In The Business: Lowered NX-pectations
QUOTE | “The challenge is that the roadmap for a successful Nintendo console is unclear.” — EEDAR analyst Patrick Walker, suggesting that Mario, Zelda and the like won’t be enough of a unique selling point to move the NX on their own.
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This Week In The Business: Virtual Reality Year One
QUOTE | “Year one of VR is not going to see huge, AAA budgets… as more headsets get out there, and as we’re growing our capabilities the scopes of the games will get bigger and bigger” – Ubisoft Red Storm creative director David Votypka, giving insight into why the publisher’s first two VR projects —…