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Video games will eventually become as popular as traditional sports
“Video games is the only competitive medium that is going to give me that experience, and that purpose, and that sense of belonging, and that camaraderie that you get from sport. And so of course it's going to be as popular as sport, if not more popular as spor…”
Bobby Kotick Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 21:57 a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
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Augmented reality will have more near-term impact than virtual reality
“AR is gonna have more near-term impact than VR.”
Bobby Kotick Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 33:05 a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
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Esports will never join the Olympics due to commercial ownership conflicts
“I actually don't think, like, the Olympics has never been about a commercial enterprise, and so if you think of the analog, right, there's not, like, if you had to pick a game, You're now endorsing someone's commercial enterprise.”
Bobby Kotick Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 26:48 a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
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