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QUOTE | “Just as the line between gamer and non-gamer has been destroyed, I think the distinction between console and mobile will become less distinct over time.” – Scopely’s Walter Driver thinks Apple TV is just one more step toward an ultimate convergence in gaming Elsewhere in the business of games this week… QUOTE | “The console installed base is as big as it’s ever going to get.” – Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter also chimed in after the Apple TV reveal, saying w69 this may be the last console generation because people soon won’t need consoles to play console-quality games.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1733124197","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"culture","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"culture","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); QUOTE | “If movies had the same market dynamics as games, they would have a lot less cultural power and a lot less economic power.” Hand Eye Society executive director Jim Munroe, explaining how advocating for artistic, non-commercial games benefits the commercial industry as well QUOTE | “For every time I found a great piece online about how a Pewdiepie generated X hundreds of thousands of dollars there was another developer saying that they actually didn’t see a single spike at all.” – Capy Games head Nathan Vella on the unpredictable benefits of being featured by YouTubers; he added that Capy once had a game featured by Total Biscuit, and said it didn’t result in a single extra sale. QUOTE | “Gamers want so desperately for games to function as art, to witness games about the depth of human experience — and here is Twitch, a crucial platform in games culture that had 44 percent livestreaming market share in 2014, insisting ‘NO’ — games should only ever snicker about sex and nudity, like some stoned tweens clutching smuggled Hot Pockets in the back of a movie theater.” – Robert Yang, taking issue with Twitch banning his latest game, Rinse and Repeat, from broadcast. QUOTE | “I leave knowing that Maxis is in great hands with a leader and teams who are full of respect for our players, passion for our games, and new ideas to bring to the world of Maxis gamers.” – Former Maxis senior VP Lucy Bradshaw, as she departs EA after 23 years STAT | $1,000 – The entry-level cost of low-end Oculus Ready PCs; the program was announced this week as a way to let gamers know whether or not new rigs could handle the Oculus Rift’s technical demands QUOTE | “What’s really scaring me is the prospect of what people could do with ads. I mean, ads aren’t evil, but the combination of the immersion… You could be a little trapped when you’re in VR.” – Temple Gates Games co-founder Theresa Duringer shares her concerns about a potential downside to VR STAT | 174,000 – The number of unique games and apps made in Unity from April through July of this year. Collectively, they were installed 2.5 billion times across 1.1 billion w69 slot devices QUOTE | “We don’t believe in wand-based input for the future of VR. We really believe in hand presence, in hand input, so we let everybody else go.” – Oculus’ Brendan Iribe explains the strategy in waiting so long to reveal the Oculus Touch controllers STAT | 93%- The percentage of game audio professionals responding to the 2015 Game Audio Industry Survey who are male; that’s actually down from 96% in last w69 เข้าสู่ระบบ year’s survey QUOTE | “These proposals are completely without precedent in the entertainment industry and we believe they are reckless and ill-advised” – The SAG-AFTRA union, in response to game publishers’ initial proposals as they renegotiate the terms governing union voice acting for games Top image via Shutterstock Photo