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# EA Founder: Console gaming to become minor hobby
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/ea-founder-console-gaming-become-minor-hobby/
- Published: 2012-10-15T16:30:13.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:51:38.000Z
- Description: The founder of Electronic Arts, the amusingly-named Trip Hawkins, predicts a slow decline for console gaming: It’s going to become a smaller market, and it’s going to be more like a hobby market. You look at airplanes. Most of us just want to be a passenger, but there’s a hobby market for people who
- Author: Joseph Bernstein
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The founder of Electronic Arts, the amusingly-named Trip Hawkins, [predicts a slow decline for console gaming](http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/11/ea-founder-says-consoles-are-niche?ref=killscreen.com):

> It’s going to become a smaller market, and it’s going to be more like a hobby market. You look at airplanes. Most of us just want to be a passenger, but there’s a hobby market for people who are really into aviation and want to take flying lessons and maybe someday have their own airplane. I think that’s what’s happening to the console market.