This Week in the Business_ 'Sony Will Drop Its Hardware Prices This Autumn, Because It Must.'

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Sony will drop its hardware prices this autumn, because it must.”—Rob Fahey, veteran game journalist, talking about why Sony needs to cut the price of both the PS3 and Vita in order to boost sales QUOTE | “If you make a good game, Zynga will copy it.”—Catharina Lavers Mallet, head of King.com’s London rummy master studio, talking about the difficulties of making social games QUOTE | “Our priority right now is definitely to bring more content.”—Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Worldwide Studios, talking about what Sony needs to do to boost PS Vita salescnx.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":"5935928","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"culture","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"culture","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); QUOTE | “What matters now is whether all of those millions of households with a Wii festering in a cupboard under the stairs will fall for it again.”—Dan Pearson, senior staff writer at GamesIndustry International, talking with other journalists about the Wii U’s third party support QUOTE | “We still would have wanted to publish it even if it was a direct sequel to E.T. from the Atari 2600.”—Ken Berry, EVP of Xseed Games, talking about publishing The Last Story for the Wii in the US QUOTE | “I fundamentally believe that e-sports will be an Olympic event rummy modern in my lifetime.”—Brandon Beck, co-founder of Riot Games, talking about how the popularity of games like League of Legends rummy nabob continues to grow STAT | 147%—Amount that sales rose for Japanese mobile social game giant Gree for their fiscal year just ended in June; total sales were $2 billion, with $609 million in net profits QUOTE | “This is the best time to be a game designer.”—Neil Young, CEO of ngmoco, talking about how player data from mobile games helps make games better QUOTE | “Our definition of success is their failure.”—Brian Fargo, CEO of InXile, talking about how big game publishers view Kickstarter-funded games like Wasteland 2 >. QUOTE | “Those Zynga-like games give the ‘casual’ market a bad name.”—David Crane, creator of the classic Atari 2600 game Pitfall, talking about how they promote the game STAT | 235 million—Number of gamers now playing games on Facebook, according to the company; that’s up from 205 million this time last year STAT | 7 million—Number of copies of Minecraft that have been sold for the PC, according to Mojang; they’ve also sold over 2 million copies on Xbox Live Arcade QUOTE | “We will never abandon physical media. As long as the consumer wants to buy something on a disc, we will be there to offer it.”—Peter Moore, EA COO, talking about how digital sales will overtake physical sales in a few years This Week in the Business courtesy of GamesIndustry International (Image from Shutterstock)