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"Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist"

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There is bravado in Mike Wilson's line, but it is the pragmatic kind that doubles as a warning shot. "Our developers will make great games" leads with craft and confidence; the clause that follows quietly relocates power. The real subject isn't developers at all, it's platforms and the market forces that decide which ones count as "high-end". By refusing to name a console, storefront, or ecosystem, Wilson sidesteps tribal loyalties and locks his identity to output rather than allegiance. That's a pitch to players, investors, and partners: we are portable, we are resilient, we won't be stranded by the next hardware cycle.

The phrase "whatever... exist" carries the subtext of volatility. It implies an industry where today's dominant box can be tomorrow's discontinued experiment, where corporate strategy and supply chains can erase an entire audience overnight. In that landscape, platform commitment becomes risk, and adaptability becomes ideology.

It also reads like a subtle critique of platform gatekeeping. "High-end" is a flattering term that signals ambition, but it also concedes that the most prestigious spaces are curated by someone else. Wilson's intent is to claim membership without begging for it: we'll meet the specs, we'll justify the hardware, and if the definition of premium shifts to cloud, PC, handheld hybrids, or something not yet branded, we'll follow the frontier.

It's an assertion of creative continuity in a business built on discontinuity, framed as calm confidence because panic would sound like dependence.

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