Tim Sweeney

“It'd be awesome if you could see an actual player's faces projected onto an in-game character in a multiplayer game. Imagine how realistic that would feel.”

“I have immense respect for Unity because they played a key role in establishing this indie revolution, empowering a huge number of people to get into game development.”

“Asian online games are far ahead of Western games in terms of business model, but the Western games do have a real advantage in terms of production values.”

“Games have become a social phenomenon.”

“Augmented reality will drive all things like chat, social networking, photos, videos, organizing data, modeling, painting, motion capture, and visual programming. Every form of computing will be combined together and unified in a single platform.”

“We're not just limited by technology but by our ideas and our experimentation and how quickly we can try things.”

“We're trying to make our software available to users in as economically efficient a way as possible. That means distributing the software directly to them; taking payment through Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, and other options; and not having a store take 30 percent.”

“Windows is the platform of choice for gamers. It's the only choice for enterprise. If we want to have an open platform, we have to fight to keep Windows open.”

“Streaming is something that's going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G and everything else.”

“I've never met a skeptic of VR who has tried it.”

“If you black out the background in AR, you could make an immersive VR experience, and if you make the view translucent so you can see through it, you just have an augmented view of the real world. I think that's the ultimate and best form of display tech we'll have.”

“The genre thing is overrated, and the platform decisions are overrated. It's what we see on 'Fortnite': so many of these gamers play on a variety of devices, so you can't say they're a mobile gamer or a console gamer. They're just a gamer.”

“It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.”

“The great thing about VR is that the input is going to be so drastically better than mouse input or games with touch controls on smartphones. It'll make it much easier to build stuff and express yourself freely.”

“My experience with Epic is handing off more and more power to the point where I can just sit back and look at our strategy or technology. I provide guidance without being responsible for any particular part of the company.”

“I feel like it really marks a new era for Microsoft under Satya Nadella, Alex Kipman, Phil Spencer, and a number of other people who are really committed to the platform being a healthy ecosystem for everybody and not just an extracted business like you see on the Facebook or Google side.”

“We want a direct relationship with our customers. To build a business and sell products to them.”

“Some folks actually talk a whole lot more than me, so I'm grateful for the people like Cliff Bleszinski. He talks about our games, and Mark Rein talks about our business strategy. I'm the shy programmer myself.”

“Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10 as the first apparent step towards locking down the consumer PC ecosystem and monopolising app distribution and commerce.”

“I believe that augmented reality will be the biggest technological revolution that happens in our lifetimes.”