Consoles Quotations

A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it's on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.

I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don't have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what's important as I'm working on a game.

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.

Given the business model for the consoles the more Microsoft can backload those hardware sales, the better it is for them financially.

Functions like night-time attendant were not yet there and there was a limit on the number of calls that could be stacked up for a particular extension. The operator consoles were also a bit primitive.

For me, seeing the progression of video games and consoles - whether it be PlayStation, Xbox, or whatever - I think just seeing how good they've gotten from the days when I first started playing is just amazing.

I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and slaughter one another.

It goes without saying that the full impact of next generation consoles on the consumer market won't unfold until later this year when Sony and Nintendo's video game consoles hit U.S. retail shelves.

It comes down to platform 'excellence'. What I mean is when Spider-Man (the game) launches on all three consoles on the same day, that it looks better or plays better on one of them than it does on the others.

Today we have turned a major corner. With more consoles on their way to retail, 80 games available by June, and new content and experiences coming to Xbox Live all the time, there has never been a better time to own an Xbox 360.

Microsoft is an extremely attractive partner. It creates a lot of hardware revenue in the future. Gaming consoles are growing really fast and contain a lot of semiconductors.

Whether it's NAND or hard disc drive, game consoles currently do not require large amount of storage in the first place.

When the consoles come in, we'll put them out.

The online console gaming market is set to take off, as the new generation of consoles arrives with advanced networking and online gaming capabilities. The ability to download game demos, buy casual as well as full-fledged console games, and access advanced content, including HD video, will result in 'online' becoming the key technology component of gaming for this and subsequent console generations.

Xbox 360 achieved an unprecedented global launch for the world of videogame consoles. In the first 90 days we will have launched Xbox 360 in nearly 30 countries, and Xbox 360 is on track to ship between 4.5 and 5.5 million consoles by the end of June.

Xbox 360 is a new product with new technology, so the slow start is understandable, but next Christmas the Xbox is not going to be there by itself. Newer consoles from Sony and Nintendo will also be there.

The point here is about choice. In the past, game consoles didn't offer much choice. You got what they said you got.

With Unreal Engine 3, we designed it to fall in the sweet spot of next generation consoles. We've been really in tune with the next generation consoles this time around.

With the new consoles coming out -- and I said this five years ago when the PS2 and Xbox came out -- people all rush to ring the bell for the death knell of PC gaming, and it never seems to happen, and I don't think we're looking at that now, either.

Both of the next-generation consoles are great machines. They both have lots of power and they both have lots of memory... I don't think anybody's going to be disappointed with either of them.

Despite these achievements, we were disappointed with our earnings performance this quarter which was the result of weaker than expected market conditions in the U.S. and Europe due to the transition from current-generation consoles to the next generation of video game systems.

Technology will wipe away this issue in the next five years. The new consoles from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will all have parental controls so that game systems are far beyond television and DVDs in the ability they give to parents to restrict content.

In sports we had 70 percent category share on consoles in North America. We had 15 of the top 20 sports titles on the PS2 and 14 on both the Xbox and PC.

Games and films complement each other, and next-gen consoles will require game developers to adopt new techniques.

Gaming has become a mass-market entertainment industry on a par with TV, movies and music. Segments such as video game advertising, set to become a market worth close to $3 billion by 2011, will result in the further maturing of this industry. The ability to play music and media from powerful consoles and handhelds will drive overall industry growth as consumers begin to view gaming devices as one-stop-shop entertainment platforms.

It'll be three to five years before consoles are connected to broadband.

In every other generation, the first guy to 10 million consoles was the number one seller in the generation.

anywhere close to taking full advantage of all of this extra capability. But, maybe by the time the next generation of consoles roll around the developers will be a little more comfortable with all this and be able to get more benefit out of it. It's not a problem I actually think will have a solution. I think it's going to stay hard.

The gaming experience on Windows Vista is going to go beyond any of the gaming consoles and anything that's been done before.

If I had intended for 'Minecraft' to end up on consoles, I wouldn't have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to play around with the brand on different platforms, and some interesting business deals.

The introduction of the Xbox 360 was a defining moment for the industry in 2005. However, it goes without saying that the full impact of next generation consoles on the consumer market won't unfold until later this year when Sony and Nintendo's video game consoles hit U.S. retail shelves. The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming. The GBA continued to realize stellar sales, and the introduction of the DS and PSP to the market brought older gamers to the portable format.

The launch of new consoles provides a number of opportunities for those supplying new products that take advantage of the unique features of the systems. Providing gamers with products that enhance the game experience is key to long-term success in this market.

The Japanese game market at the moment is all about the handhelds, and because the other two consoles haven't turned up no one has really tuned in yet, so the whole idea of getting first mover advantage has just not happened at all.

A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.