This Week in the Business_ The Customer Isn't Always Right

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “There’s one mistake that they all make, and that mistake is listening to their customers.”—Jesse Schell, noted game designer, on why Microsoft and other big companies can have a hard time introducing new technology(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); QUOTE | “Who knows if there’ll be big publishers in the future? There don’t have to be.”—Ed Fries, co-founder of the Xbox, in a discussion of the pg123 greatest things in the last era of gaming QUOTE | “The indie community does not want the Xbox One to fail.”—Lorne Lanning, president of Oddworld Inhabitants, noting that noting Microsoft’s console audience of 100 million QUOTE | “We want to feel like it’s a struggle every time. We want to feel that almost ‘Rocky moment.'”—Mark Rubin, executive producer at Infinity Ward, describing how the team challenges itself to do better with each game STAT | 600%—Increase in average daily revenue for Gree’s Modern War mobile game during a live event weekend; one live event weekend saw the company make $2.3 million in revenue from the game QUOTE | “The biggest challenge comes down to the fact that the industry evolves just so rapidly.”—Lee Perry, co-founder of BitMonster Games, explaining the h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ difficult transition from console to mobile games STAT | 233%—Amount that Nexon’s Japanese revenue rose in the last quarter; overall the โค้ดเครดิตฟรีสมาชิกใหม่ล่าสุด company saw revenues rise 60% in the last quarter, with most of the revenue from China QUOTE | “In Argentina it’s pretty hard to tell your parents you’re going into the video game industry.”—Martina Santoro, Okam Studio co-founder, on the difficulties of game development in Latin America STAT | $5 million — Amount of money Square Enix lost in the last quarter, compared to $21 million in the same quarter last year; the company is estimating it will show a profit of over $50 million for the full year This Week in the Business courtesy of GamesIndustry International Image by Jagodka | Shutterstock