Minecraft, every mention
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every year anyone Benedict Evans 14
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Minecraft comes up
No Soup for You! Regulating tech M&A
- ▶ 17:35 Benedict Evans And so there's this whole question, is there a space in the middle, which is Roblox, and Minecraft, and maybe Fortnite, although that seems to have disappeared now, or mostly faded away.
Talking about crypto
- ▶ 19:48 Benedict Evans Cause one of them is again, there's all the noise and say, you know, I'm going to create a shit copy of Minecraft that runs on Bitcoin.
- ▶ 35:12 Benedict Evans You know, it's a shit copy of Minecraft and 10 ways to lend people money.
Games and Roblox
- ▶ 1:18 Benedict Evans So, like, lo-fi graphics have been a thing for a long time, if you go back, you know, graphics that were significantly lower-fi than what you saw at a high-end console game at the time, so you think not very obviously Minecraft, um, but go… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:55 Benedict Evans Yeah, and there's a lot of, there's a lot of overlap with Minecraft there, and the interesting thing about Minecraft, I kind of noticed, was kids seem to have two waves of being interested in Minecraft. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:34 Benedict Evans Um, and so, as I said, the bull thesis for things like Fortnite and Roblox is, okay, this is going to be the thing that's going to break through and have longevity, and the bear thesis would be, no, it's just going, it's just the latest…
Why do we care about games?
- ▶ 28:02 Benedict Evans And my, and my son, I mean, you mentioned low-fi graphics, obviously Minecraft, both Minecraft and Roblox would feature heavily in that.