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The Nintendo Switch 2 could top 100M sold, even as the game industry isn’t in Kansas anymore | Trip Hawkins interview


Trip Hawkins has a long legacy in video games, and he's still making his voice heard in the industry as a new wave of change comes upon us.

I think it’s probably more to do with the fact that if the Switch doesn’t evolve fast enough, it starts to look pretty dodgy compared to whatever the latest consoles and high-end PC game rigs are. Then of course if you talk about physical games that you watch on TV or play in real life, like tennis or golf, the list is not very long until you’ve filled out all the boxes that the culture and the society need. When Gutenberg invented the printing press, I don’t know if he was philosophical about it or not, but you think about how someone like Martin Luther–he spent three years hiding in a castle rewriting the Latin Bible in German.

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