52 Quotes by Michael Goodman

If you're looking to have this market develop, this is a really bad time to increase rates. You need to be careful about killing the golden goose. If they do raise rates, they're just getting greedy, and they're running a very significant risk of seeing those rates decline significantly.

It has global appeal, unlike most games that do well in either Asia or the U.S. but typically not in both regions.

By becoming part of a larger media group, it allows them to leverage wider distribution. For somebody who is a media conglomerate, it's worth more because they can package it with other channels.

Gambling is illegal in the U.S., and there are many different state laws regulating it, but all of the online gaming businesses are located overseas, where the government has no jurisdiction. How will this new law be enforced? Will the government track the online activities of the millions of people involved in online gambling?

This is much like an online movie-download store, only using the file-sharing system.

And for Real, this is a good way to drive subscription revenues.

The marketplace is very different today than it was 10 years ago when Sony dominated the industry. It's not a clear-cut case of, if they get their act together, they'll own this space?. The space has become too competitive.