From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.

You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.

Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.

One quality of entrepreneurship is just persistence, not giving up because you have road blocks and also not giving in because other people tell you that you're nuts. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.