This Week in the Business_ 'Xbox Live is Going to Lose Out'

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Xbox Live is going to lose out.”—Tim Schafer, CEO of Y1 apk Double Fine, talking about what Microsoft should do to stem the migration of developers away from Xbox Live(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 | “You belong in a subset of human beings in a circle of Hell.”—Brenda Garno Braithwaite, COO of Loot Drop, talking about what she calls the “disgusting subject” of social and mobile game cloning QUOTE | “Wii U is going to have to adopt a Trojan Horse philosophy.”—Veteran game journalist Chris Morris on what Nintendo should and shouldn’t do with the Wii U to in order to y1 game be a hit QUOTE | “We Y1 com Game monetize revenge.” -Will Harbin, CEO of Kixeye, talking about how Kixeye’s hard-core social games generate much more money per daily active user than Zynga’s games STAT | 1.4 petabytes – The amount of data in Zynga’s entire database, more than 10x the data required to store every Netflix movie in HD, according to Zynga CTO Allan Leinwand QUOTE | “I know this sounds crazy, but this will look better and play better than consoles.”—David Perry, CEO of Gaikai, talking about how their game-streaming technology performs QUOTE | “It was offensive. I’ll cop to that. I regret that. But there was nothing about it that said there was a hatred or dislike or distrust of women.”—Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe, explaining his remarks about Twisted Metal that sparked some controversy, especially among female gamers QUOTE | “Major Japanese companies are canceling all projects intended for Vita.”—Comments from unnamed source quoted by Kiyoshi Shin, former head of the Japanese IGDA, which Sony says is “largely exaggerated.” QUOTE | “You mean PsychoNotch? We’re talking. He meant it.”—Tim Schafer, CEO of Double Fine, talking about Minecraft creator Markuss ‘Notch’ Persson’s offer to help fund a Psychonauts sequel QUOTE | “Capcom is now at a crossroads.”—David Radd, Senior Editor at IndustryGamers.com, on whether they can make new AAA games like Dragon’s Dogma a hit or if they ought to put more into mobile games growth STAT | $50 million—Amount Sony will be spending on marketing PS Vita to consumers in a massive blowout on television, print, and signage This Week in the Business courtesy of IndustryGamers.com (Image from Shutterstock)