Gaming Industry Quotes

The fact is, there's no single magic number that defines profitability for a game.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

I'm so glad to have Xbox as a franchise, especially at a time when gaming is becoming even more important - as a digital life category and in the mobile world.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Nintendo has been a very unique company because it's not just hardware but also one of the major software publishers. Because it is in a unique position, it's given us a unique advantage.

I think what a lot of women in the game industry saw with Gamergate is they saw if they came forward, help was not going to come.

Any time skating was featured in a video game, I ate it up. So around 1997-98, I was shopping this video game idea. I was weighing my options when I went to Activision, but when I saw what they were working on, I said, 'This is exactly what I'd love to be involved with,' and following that gut reaction was hugely successful.

Our core market has been historically gamers and digital content creators such as car designers and movie makers.

I've been playing video games since I was 10 years old, and I think it's important to play games if you want to design them yourself.

When I was a kid, I played 'Super Mario Bros' and 'Megaman 2' and '3' for hours and hours, trying to convince my mother they were good for me because they helped my hand-eye coordination. They influenced a whole generation of people to make computers what they are now, through problem-solving and so on.

I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.

I grew up in Las Vegas. My mom worked in pretty much every casino on the Strip.

I'd been playing everything and decided that this was something I maybe wanted to make a career out of. I knew where some companies were, but I saw the name 'Bethesda, Maryland' on 'Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3.'

I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.

I think that Nintendo puts a lot more emphasis and uses the controller more than any of the other companies.

Platforms are going to get bigger and bigger. Minecraft and Microsoft are just the tip of the iceberg. You're going to see more and more action in this space. Not just from Microsoft's Project Spark and Sony's LittleBigPlanet.

I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.

If you want our world-known names, you can't have them unless you own the Nintendo machine.

Being the puppet master, it's like running Nintendo of America.

But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people.

In the time period before Wii was called Wii and we still referred to it as Revolution, no one thought it was going to succeed.

Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.

Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too.