Will the bluster and thought leadership of the game industry go quiet? | The DeanBeat

I’m a fan of transparency. Because, as the big newspaper says, “Democracy dies in darkness.” There’s an analogy here for the game business where it feels like we’re getting too quiet. I guess it’s time for me to make some noise and rant because we’re losing the voices in our industry.

In the past, we had a lot of people who were all too loud and ready to be heard. Trip Hawkins and John Riccitiello loved to come up with witty criticisms of their rivals. Satoru Iwata of Nintendo didn’t mind saying he thought that Sony’s Kaz Hirai was “arrogant” in saying the console wars were over.

For good and bad, the bad guys of the industry were like James Bond villains, telling us exactly how they were going to kill the good guy before failing to ...