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Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I share with other Rioters, including Riot’s senior leadership. This edition is the public version that I publish broadly every week as well. Opinions are mine.
Hi, my name is Kenny Liu, and I work in Revenue Strategy at Riot Games. Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I share with other Rioters, including Riot’s senior leadership. This edition is the public version that I publish broadly every week as well. Opinions are mine.
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The Three Horizon Problem
HBR: McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here’s Why It No Longer Applies.
The Three Horizons model "described innovation occurring on three time horizons:
Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities in the short-term
Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business model and core capabilities to new customers, markets, or targets
Horizon 3 is the creation of new capabilities and new business to take advantage of or respond to disruptive opportunities or to counter disruption"
"Here’s what’s changed: In the past we assigned relative delivery time to each of the Horizons. For example, some organizations defined Horizon 1 as new features that could be delivered in the short term of three to 12 months, Horizon 2 as business model extensions that will be ready 24 to 36 months out, and Horizon 3 as creating new disruptive products or business models 36 to 72 months out"
"While traditional analysis suggests that Horizon 3 disruptive innovations take years to develop, in today’s world this is no longer the case. The three horizons are no longer bounded by time. Today, disruptive Horizon 3 ideas can be delivered as fast as ideas for Horizon 1 in the existing product line"
Design
Raph Koster: What Drives Retention
Exploring the value of randomness in procedural generation
Behind the AI of Horizon Zero Dawn
Multi-Platform / Post-Platform
Microsoft Prepping Xbox Live for Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android
Sony CFO: Cloud gaming isn't an immediate threat to consoles
Nintendo gets Vivox text and voice chat for Switch games
Smaller Nintendo Switch due out in 2019
South Korea's Netmarble to form consortium for Nexon holding company bid
Respawn talks Apex Legends, its titan-less Titanfall battle royale
Mobile
Nintendo & Line team up for new Dr. Mario mobile game
NBCUniversal & Starbreeze team up on Payday: Crime War mobile game
Tech
Children & parents: Media use and attitudes report 2018
a16z: Is Alexa working?
Reddit is raising a huge round at ~$3bn valuation
Overtime
The fall of Starbreeze according to the people who lived through it
DJ Marshmello's Fortnite concert makes history with 10mm concurrent players
Quake 2 Path Tracing / Ray Tracing Analysis: Retro Meets Nvidia RTX
Pennsylvania legislators want to slap a tax on mature games
Nintendo to open first official retail store in Japan
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