This Week in the Business_ 'Sony has had a Miserable Generation in the Console Market'

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Sony has had a miserable generation in the console market.”—Rob Fahey, former editor of GI.biz, talking about the harsh lessons Sony has learned and what they need to succeed QUOTE | “Consoles have become a barrier to creativity.”—YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan, developers of GameMaker, talking about the effect of the massive development costs and closed ecosystems of consoles QUOTE | “I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the last traditional console generation.”—Rob Pardo, Chief Creative Officer of Blizzard Entertainment, talking about game design and the future of gamingcnx.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":"5949515","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"culture","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"culture","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); QUOTE | “You won’t be seeing our profit being spent on Ferraris and shit like that. Our profits are going back into games.”—Lorne Lanning, CEO of Oddworld Inhabitants, talking about an attempt by EA to acquire his studio and why he said no QUOTE | y1 games latest “We wish Lorne luck on the game and recommend Lithium betdog for the paranoia and Tourette Syndrome.”—Jeff Brown, EA spokesman, commenting on Lorne Lanning’s profanity-laced diatribe about how EA tried to buy his company, which EA says never happened STAT | 1 billion—Number of monthly Facebook users actively using the service; Facebook has also seen about 230 million Facebook users playing games y1 games in the last month QUOTE | “I’d written things being slightly grumpy about the way Lara had become. Big boobs and etcetera etcetera.”—Rhianna Pratchett, narrative designer on the Tomb Raider reboot, talking abou her work on Lara Croft QUOTE | “That’s the beauty of the internet; now people instantly broadcast how wrong your opinions are all over the world .”—Frank O’Connor, Halo 4’s franchise development director, talking about how Halo 4 development had to deal with an enormous amount of advice STAT | $2.30—Value of one share of Zynga’s stock after it dropped 20% overnight on news of poor third quarter results; the stock has dropped over 80% from its high point back in March of this year QUOTE | “Ubisoft pounces on every market where it can gain ground.”—Mike Williams, writer for GamesIndustry International, talking with other journalists about the best video game companies in a fantasy sports style draft STAT | 10 million—Number of World of Warcraft subscribers after the release of Mists of Pandaria, up from 9 million before; the expansion has sold 2.7 million copies so far QUOTE | “25 years ago I never really imagined that game hardware would evolve this far so quickly.”—Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid, talking about the game series, how it evolved and where it’s going STAT | 12 million—Number of units sold of the Left 4 Dead franchise, according to Valve; Valve continues to support the series, now through Steam Workshop This Week in the Business courtesy of GamesIndustry International (Image from Shutterstock)