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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 09:30:20 GMT
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- Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
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- : I haven't seen it. Games that came on ten 3.5" floppies that now come on
- : CD-ROM are no cheaper in my experience. In fact, prices seem to have gone
- : up with CD-ROM. Media doesn't seem to affect these people.
-
- : Yet software prices seem unaffected by the move between 5.25", 3.5", DD,
- : HD, and CD-ROM. The big question here is will Iomega let others make the
- : disks. I have reason to believe they will.
-
- The problem is that a software company sees that lower distribution cost
- as more profit for them and keeps the software at the same price and
- refuse to drop the price. Look at the CD console game developers, their games
- are the same price as the cart version, because they are making more
- profit and they like it.
-
- Another factor to current pricing is that distribution on CD is about the
- same price as distribution of the same software on 4 floppies. If the
- software is larger than 4 floppies, it's cheaper to put it on CD. If
- it's less than 4 disks worth of data, it's cheaper to it on floppy.
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- Chris Hall
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