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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming

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The Importance of Democratization in Video Games

I think we still haven't fully reached maybe the iPhone moment for your camera, but we're getting there. The old Hiroshi Yamayuchi Maxim that there are a handful of Shigeru Miyamoto's in the world that can make games like that and we want them all making games for Nintendo is probably still true. There is this parallel track within games that we know modding is such a key part of innovation and how these games evolve as new genres are created. We're getting so close to those moments of with the UGC getting better and you can have the random kid come up with a new genre or a new game which might just be important and creative or Roblox.

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