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- From: mknip@snakemail.hut.fi (Mats A Knip)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 15:37:29 +0200
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- In-reply-to: Ola Fosheim Groestad's message of Mon, 25 Mar 1996 19:38:45 +0100
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- > Actually, I've always believed that piracy is what sold both C64s and
- > the Amigas.. in the first place.. Too bad, that's just how things
- > work.
-
- I do share this feeling but...
-
- > (For those that didn't get that one: you wouldn't be able to sell expensive
- > items like C64s and Amigas (when they first came) to teenagers if they
- > had to spend thrice that amount on software. They spent all they had on
- > hardware, got software as presents, bought stuff where they wanted the
- > manual or something like that, and pirated the rest)
-
- ...how do you explain Nintendo selling millions of consoles to kids and
- teenagers and then charge hilarious amounts of money for the games?
- (in Finland N-games often cost $100+ a piece. Unbelievable) Since there
- is virtually no widespread piracy people -have- to buy games, and do.
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