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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: 27 Jan 1996 08:58:09 GMT
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- Charles E Taylor IV (charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu) wrote:
-
- : There are a bazillion software distribution companies out there. Why would
- : anyone got through AT if they didn't have to?
-
- If AT setup exclusive distribution agreements with the mass market
- outlets, they would have to or their software wouldn't be in those same
- mass market outlets.
-
-
- : 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?
-
- C64 better than the C64?? :)
-
-
- : 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. :)
-
- Sega, Sony and Nintendo aren't really in a position to put a cheap
- computer out because they don't have a full OS. This is where AT has them
- beat.
-
-
- : Remember the CDTV, the not-so-cheap older brother of the CD32?
-
- Yes and I remember how over priced it was, their screwed up marketing and
- how C= gave on it while they were a head of the CDI.
-
-
- : 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.
-
- Yes but the people that would buy a cheap computer would probably want to
- wait for a monitor so hooking up to a TV would be a good option for them.
-
-
- : 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...
-
- There is a big difference between 8bit Atari computers and the Amiga.
-
-
- Chris Hall
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