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

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

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"We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product."
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"And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time."
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"Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace."
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"With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared."
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"The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles."
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"So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new."
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"As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles."

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"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."

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"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."

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"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."

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"All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance."

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"And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years."

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"The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists."

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"The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration."

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"And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn."

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"Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle."

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