Has the video game industry learned the lessons of recession and change?
As industry revenues fall, a new video asks whether video game companies have learned the lessons of the recession and changing consumer preferences. The video on Game Theory with Scott Steinberg examines the state of the business in interviews with a number of luminaries such as Gaikai chief executive David Perry, Electronic Arts founder and Digital Chocolate CEO Trip Hawkins (pictured), and The Sims creator Will Wright. The video asks whether game companies are moving fast enough to adapt to changes such as the delivery of games as a service on platforms such as Facebook and free-to-play games that are financed by virtual goods sales. “For much of the history of the industry, it was a winner take all, single platform model – clearly it’s never going to be that way again,” Hawkins says in the video. “In the future, any kind of game company [has] to have a technology approach that gives them the agility to cross platform boundaries. That’s where gaming really needs to go – to become li
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