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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 11 Mar 96 22:10:45 +1200
- Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Message-ID: <1996Mar11.221045@cantva>
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- > : really suck with a few exceptions. They are still trying to come up
- > : with a decent DOOM clone, while that game is old news to PC's. In
- >
- > If you want to play games, get a Playstation. It makes P6 166MHz systems
- > look sad and it only costs 290UKP.
-
- No, the playstation certainly has the edge pricewise, but a p6 is quite a bit
- better at graphics, (though to be fair, their are very few _games_ which
- currantly take advantage of the power.) Anyway, this is irrelevant, as well as
- consoles being limited to only games, the problem is that they only shine for a
- few months and then you're stuck with a dated system.
- >
- > Isn't it funny how the Amiga used to be derided as a 'games machine'. Now
- > that the PC games market is buzzing it's suddenly a case of 'Amiga games
- > are no good'. Some people make you want to chuck.
-
- Subtle difference - the Amiga was _written off_ as a games machine, in the same
- way I just wrote off the playstation <g>, the PC, king in the business and
- related fields, is now _also_ awesome for gaming, the Amiga has never been in
- this position and is now arguably poor in both fields. Presumably this is the
- reason behind at least _some_ of such comments, and looks like valid enough
- logic to me. The rest is prob just bigoted drivel like you say.
-
-
- Seeya
- *****
- Don't flame me - I just call 'em as I see 'em. Besides which, if it isn't
- reasoned argument, it's just more worthless air gushing into the balloon that
- is Internet. :)
- *****
-