^he'd love to be in a situation where he has "unlimited" money?

u cant beat Cammie Dunway

I take it he means he would 'love' to have access to the sort of money that Microsoft has as that seriously affects your business model.  

I have to say his comments are very candid and fair.  I wish more executives were like this.

"I love their money. I think they can afford to be more patient, we're very profit driven, we're interested in return on investment in a fairly short period of time. I think Microsoft is prepared to go at it from a very steep curve in terms of profitability."

Of course they could afford to be more patient, but they want to be leaders so it's only natural to invest heavily asap.

BTW, what he says about Nintendo is complete bullcrap. Nintendo never was more profit driven than any other company. They were playing safe by trying to differentiate their product while remaining in the low cost segment. Hitting solid gold the way they did was simply unexpected.

Good old Jack Tretton, E3 wouldn't be the same without him.

I think he was beeing serious.

Yeah so did I 

O RLY???

Nintendo is the only company of all that even when it is in 3rd place, it still makes a lot of profits (they made with 21M Gamecubes an amount that competes with the amount Sony made with the PS2, at least till 2006), all their handhelds were (and are) massively popular, printing cash like crazy... The only surprise was the Wii in the innovation area, but their profit model has not changed...

All companies are profit driven, but some models are designed for getting cash since the beginning, other models are designed to loss amounts to later get a big return, with different variations (MS usually risks a lot, gets a strong marketshare and then profits, Bill Gates used this model with Windows after dumping OS/2 partnership, i think that was the only time they didn't have the money backup to support the risk, so it was a sink or swim moment)....

Same. That would be hilarious of him to mention.

nintendo is the ONLY company that had neverEVER lost money from the projects they work on, sure they like to play safe, but every project they work on prints money. even from the past generations.