This Week in the Business: 'Xbox is the One Console Actually Defying Gravity.'
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Nov 10, 2012 12:00 PM    

This Week in the Business: ‘Xbox is the One Console Actually Defying Gravity.’

By Steve Peterson

This Week in the Business: 'Xbox is the One Console Actually Defying Gravity.'What's happened in the business of video games this past week ...

QUOTE | "Xbox is the one console actually defying gravity."—Matt Barlow, general manager of product marketing at Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, talking about the momentum Xbox 360 has seen and how he expects it to have a huge holiday.

QUOTE | "I think the big triple-A studios are almost becoming the niche stuff."—Anna Marsh, project manager at indie studio Lady Shotgun, talking about how smaller development efforts like Angry Birds can attract far larger audiences than AAA games. More »

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