You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

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

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

No matter what I tend to be doing, generally people always think I'm crazy, first of all, because I'm always talking about things in the future that haven't happened yet, and people have a hard time believing what's gonna happen. Secondly, I'm almost always a contrarian, whatever direction everybody else is going in, I'm probably figuring out a way to go in a completely opposite direction.

But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.

We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.