These games contain elements of all the other mediums before -- books, movies, television, theater, toys, and architecture.

Sometimes a performance is best experienced with other people. The real advantage of television - that theater and the movies don't have - is you're allowed to talk through it.

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

The movies enable an actor not only to act but also to sit down in the theater and clap for himself

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.