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- From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 20:19:38 GMT
- Organization: a Graveyard of Empty Bottles
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- misc335@csc.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
-
- : > 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.
-
- My comparison was based on seeing TFX II running at about 5 frames per
- second on a P6 at my local PC World.
-
- : > 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.
-
- I suppose it comes down to bad marketing - it was so far ahead when it was
- released but the advantage was lost. The PC isn't sold on merit, people
- buy what they are told to buy...Software is developed for the machine with
- the biggest market. I'm lucky enough to be able to use an Amiga at work
- but I'm in the very small minority.
-
- C-YA
- Jon
-