This Week in the Business_‘The Wii U Feels Like an Offline Experience’
Published: January 01, 0001
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What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “The Wii U feels like an offline experience right now.”—Peter Moore, COO of Electronic Arts, talking about why the publisher isn’t working on Wii U titles
QUOTE | “We’re always so tongue-in-cheek and irreverent about it, that I think people get that…it’s all in good fun .”—Volition’s Jim Boone, talking about why he thinks H25 the Saints Row series doesn’t get cited as a bad influence like Grand Theft Autocnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"767397160","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"culture","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"culture","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); QUOTE | “We believe that within the next five years, what we are calling ‘eyephones’ will replace iPhones.”—Mind 
Pirates CEO Shawn Hardin, talking about why his company is focusing 
on games for wearable devices QUOTE | “I’m pretty surprised. I thought there were some good candidates on the senior leadership team.”—Analyst P.J. McNealy of Digital World Research, commenting on the selection of Julie Larson-Green to head up Microsoft’s h25 com สล็อต Xbox unit
QUOTE | “I think we’ve really explored the limits of how we can innovate in the [FPS] genre.”—Minh Le, co-creator of Counter Strike, talking about the future of the FPS and free-to-play QUOTE | “Thanks to independent developers … you have the Steven Spielbergs of our industry coming out of one- and two-man teams.”—SCEA head Jack Tretton, talking about why he thinks the most talented developers come from indies
QUOTE | “A lot of gamers are going to stick by their Xbox 360s, Wii/Wii Us, and PS3s at least until the 2014 holiday season.”—Analyst Lewis Ward of IDC, talking about why he thinks GTA h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ V is so good it may hurt sales of next-gen consoles STAT | $10 million—Amount per day that the top free-to-play mobile games will earn in a few years, according to Boss Alien founder Jason Avent; GungHo’s Puzzle & Dragons is already making $4 million per day QUOTE | “We need everyday, mainstream media to devote space to different kinds of 
games coverage.”—Legendary designer Warren Spector, talking about how the game industry would benefit from popular game critics
STAT | 3.4 million—Number of copies of The Last of Us sold so far this year; this makes it the fastest-selling PS3 title of 2013 This Week in the Business courtesy of GamesIndustry International Image by Shutterstock