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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why not Wal-Mart or Sears!!!
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 09:58:40 GMT
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
-
- : Sure, but they also expect big revenues from selling games.
-
- AT could expect big revenues if they would get the machines out there,
- setup CATS, and setup a distribution pipe for software in the mass
- market that they control and that they require a license for fee to use.
- They don't have to require a license fee for companies to write the
- games, they just have to control the main supply pipeline.
-
-
- : Winning as a game console ? Surely no, it had to MUCH cheaper than a PlayStation
- : then.
-
- Remember the days of the Atari 2600? The C64 carved a good chunk of the
- market during those days. It can be done again with the Amiga. The time
- is right for someone to do it again because computer companies are making
- high end computers and can't drop their price much more because of all
- the hardware they have in the boxes.
-
-
- : Winning as a computer ? Surely no, it had to MUCH more expandable and
- : would need keyboard, hires monitor, etc..
-
- If C= hadn't been so cheap with the CD32, it would have been the most
- popular product C= ever released and could have saved them. Regarding the
- monitor, most people in the US weren't into computers in the 80s and a
- cheap computer that could hook up to the TV would actually impress them.
- Keyboards are cheap so they should be included.
-
-
- : They probably lose money when you just count for sold machines.
- : Nintendo is losing money with selling its hardware since years.
-
- I don't think so. Nintendo is most likely either breaking even or making
- a marginal profit on their hardware. Their hold on the game pipe is
- what really makes them money.
-
-
- : Maybe. That's what the computer manufacturers hope.
-
- Maybe but none of them are serious enough to put out a $500 computer
- during the 90s.
-
-
- : Well. Low enough. Their main problem is that their software mostly
- : requires bigger machines.
-
- Again, they didn't think low end enough. Have you seen that Mac game
- system that Apple is putting out in Japan? If they make it usable as a
- computer and market that way, that will be what they need for their low
- end market. AT needs to wake up and see the threat that someone else
- might get to the market with a small cheap computer before they do.
-
-
- Chris Hall
-
-