Console Generation Quotes

The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.

Being a director, I've had the privilege of heading a PS3 launch title. Looking back, I think the PS4 has made the development cycle much easier.

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

I skipped N64, but I got it later when I was older. I got Game Cube first, then N64 after that actually.

The Wii had sold a hundred million units globally; the Wii U did not have that same level of success.

PlayStation consolidated the second wave of gaming. There was a slack period before it came when nothing much was happening.

The DS was launched back in 2004, and sales of that machine hit a record in 2009 in the United States. That is totally different from the conventional sales pattern, in which game gear sales peak in the third year and take a downturn thereafter.

I'm big into the PlayStation 2. From what I've heard, the Xbox is the better system, but I can't get used to that controller.

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

I had the regular Nintendo, and I had a ridiculous amount of games for it.

I'm hugely into video games; I always have been. I started on the Sega with games like Sonic, Battletoads, and Tetris... all those old-school games.

I would love for 'God of War II' to be considered the swan song of the PS2 but I really don't think this will be the last great game on the system.

The game business reinvents itself every five years.

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.

There is absolutely zero doubt that you can technically do an excellent full-featured FPS game, because these devices are more powerful now than, like, a previous generation Xbox.