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- From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E Taylor IV)
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- Subject: Re: Why not Wal-Mart or Sears!!!
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 14:54:05 GMT
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- In article <4ea8kg$qgs@alterdial.UU.NET> chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall) writes:
- :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.
-
- ... which has previously required the investments of large amounts of money
- and an initial loss. Look at Nintendo, Sega, and now Sony.
-
- :They don't have to require a license fee for companies to write the
- :games, they just have to control the main supply pipeline.
-
- There are a bazillion software distribution companies out there. Why would
- anyone got through AT if they didn't have to?
-
- :: 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.
-
- And do you remember how much obviously better the C=64 (and the Atari
- 400/800) were than the C=64? A whole lot. Here's one for you ... remember
- the Bally Astrocade?
-
- : 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.
-
- Make a low-end Amiga that can be a computer *and* better than the
- Playstation/Saturn for games for only $100 or $200 above the
- Playstation/Satrun price point and they'll beat a path to your door. Hell,
- probably Sega, Sony, and Nintendo will. :)
-
- :: 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.
-
- Remember the CDTV, the not-so-cheap older brother of the CD32?
-
- :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.
-
- Now that's changed. Monitors are getting cheaper and people are accustomed
- to having the computer with all its related hardware *not* hooked to the
- TV. We're more than halfway through the 90's now.
-
- :: 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.
-
- But they *do* lose money on the actual units. What makes them money is licensing
- fees, pure and simple. A couple years back, as another example, Sega
- redesigned the Genesis to cut back on their losses from producing hardware.
-
- :: 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.
-
- For an Amiga to come out and succeed in this vein, a whole lot more than a
- regurgitated A1200 would have to be offered. Imagine if Atari were to try
- to sell the Atari 7800 again to the 90's market...
-
-
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