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

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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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.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.