What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “PlayStation 4 must look beyond games.”—Chris Morris, veteran game journalist, on what Sony should and shouldn’t do with the PS4(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); QUOTE | “Free-to-play games can’t be high quality.”—Oliver Comte, Senior Vice President for Namco Bandai Europe, speaking at Cloud Gaming Europe on why cheap games are bad for the game industry QUOTE | “PS Vita’s 250MB plan is functionally useless.”- Brad Hilderbrand, co-host of the Power Button podcast, reacting to the AT&T 3G plans for the Sony PS Vita STAT | $150 – Amount Zynga allegedly loses on each new customer, based on an analysis by Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia QUOTE | “PlayStation Vita might actually make a little money from day one.”—James Brightman, Editor-In-Chief at IndustryGamers.com, analyzing the parts cost of the PS Vita QUOTE | “Streaming games will begin to significantly impact the gaming industry.”—Steve Peterson, West Coast Editor for IndustryGamers.com, talking about some of the significant trends on view at CES last week STAT | 57% – Amount that PS Vita sales dropped in Japan last week over the previous week, which was already down 42% [[link]] from the week before that QUOTE | [[link]] “More social games get an extreme makeover.”—Scott Steinberg, CEO of video game consultant TechSavvy Global, talking about what to expect in 2012 from social games QUOTE | “We’re seeing a huge shift in the way people consume content.”—John Davison, Vice President of Programming at CBS Interactive , discussing how readers of GameSpot and gaming sites in general are changing how they look at content about games QUOTE | “His role will be moving Xbox beyond a [[link]] gaming platform.”—Dave Cutler, the father of Windows NT and one of the brightest minds at Microsoft, will now work on transforming the Xbox platform QUOTE | “There’s going to be more lawyers.”—Patrick Sweeney, member of the Video Game bar Association board, with a scary prediction as he talks about attorneys who specialize in games This Week in the Business courtesy of IndustryGamers.com (Image from Shutterstock)