If you’re a great artist and you live in Sri Lanka, or if you’re a coder living in Johannesburg - this idea of figuring out how to move yourself to Europe or get to Silicon Valley is removed as a barrier. GamesBeat: Recruiting people from across the world can then help with diversity? Image Credit: Andriy Onufriyenko, Getty Images It just doesn’t seem to get out of that bracket. We seem to have a very vibrant, active, and engaged gaming community, but certainly, from where I come from in console gaming, it seems every generation, the number of consoles out there, if you stack them all up against all the different platforms, is somewhere between 240 and 260 million on a global basis. One thing I’m concerned about in the world of video gaming, whether it’s in the playing end of it or the creating end, is that we’re not bringing enough new people into the world.

We need to continue to push against this. That’s an important thing to remember right now. Layden: The road to diversity and inclusion and bringing more people into the gaming sphere - the road is longer than we imagined, and we need to move faster than we want to, or faster than we expected to. The question for you, then, is how do you think about getting more voices in the room? These problems come up and surprise us in a way because they make us feel like we have a long way to go. We all know that we’ve seen a lot of problems with diversity in the game industry lately. GamesBeat: We did a call about that, and we had a good conversation about diversity and some of the connections to Streamline Media Group.

What does this latest generation or latest epic of video gaming augur for those of us in the playing community and the creating community? More voices Really looking at where this goes from here. It’s grown over time continuing in that role, as well as creating original IP and doing some interesting things in the overlap, the collision between entertainment and enterprise, how you can take the things we know quite well in game design and development and find that they have applications outside the game world.

Shawn Layden: I decided to come on the advisory board at Streamline Media Group, which was founded by Alexander Fernandez about 20 years ago, starting off as an outsourcing resource for game development. GamesBeat: We connected again more recently with the advising you’re doing for Streamline Media Group.

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