So says Trip Hawkins, founder of games behemoth Electronic Arts. He’s started Digital Chocolate (motto: seize the minute) and is concentrating on mobiles. “Some see a mobile as a tiny TV, others want to put a PC in there and, to the game industry, it’s a gimpy Gameboy,” he said…”People are giving up fidelity in exchange for personalisation, for a feeling of ownership.”
Some of his ideas (such as Tamagotchi-style creatures) are already being done, but I agree with what he said in general — I just don’t think he’s the first to have thought of it. I was interested in his assertion that people are turning to mobile phones to rebuild the social links and intimacy that has been lost over the past few years…
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