Jenova Chen Quotes

Nintendo's approach to our work is to greatly increase the population of gamers.

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.

Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.

Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist.

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.

Myself and the team at Gearbox have a very keen interest in cross-platform play.

Gaming is one of those things that's pretty amazing because when you think about it, everybody wants to game; whether you're a casual gamer, or you're an enthusiast gamer, there's a large market for us.

Amazon creating GameOn could be a very good introduction into competitive gaming.

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

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.

I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.

I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.

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.

There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't wait to see what the community can create with this new tool.

The game-playing market today is pretty sizable.

I've always said - I've been making games for twenty years, and from the first day I got in this business, I've been saying, 'All I have to do is sell one more copy than I have to, to get somebody to fund my next one.'

The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.

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

You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

We were doing mobile games before the iPhone. We were doing free-to-play with 'Quake Live.' We wanted to do massively multiplayer stuff in the early days but didn't have the resources to do it.

To this day, I run into people all the time that say, whether it was 'Doom', or maybe even more so 'Quake' later on, that that openness and that ability to get into the guts of things was what got them into the industry or into technology.

Xbox is one of the most revered, loved brands in games.

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'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.

Asian online games are far ahead of Western games in terms of business model, but the Western games do have a real advantage in terms of production values.