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- From: Darren <darren@talent.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: C64 CDROM
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 13:46:26
- Organization: Talented Designs
- Message-ID: <667810499wnr@talent.demon.co.uk>
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- In article: <doug.cotton-0401961533160001@s106.the-spa.com>
- doug.cotton@the-spa.com (Doug Cotton) writes:
- > Any idea why there are no new games for the 64? Companies like ours
- can't
- > sell them, because users can simply download a few hundred cracked
- games
- > anytime they please. Meanwhile, the 64 market is dying because no-one
- will
- > bother to write programs they can't sell.
-
- The Reason the C64 market has virtually died is because all the software
- companies (Except for a few small ones) have moved onto bigger machines
- which can actually make them a lot more money. They simply moved there
- resources onto systems that will make them 10 times for income. It is
- the same with everything, as technology improves the companies have to
- move along with it or get swept aside. Piracy is not the problem, the
- systems the major companies have moved onto (Consoles,PC's etc) are
- having there software distributed more than they ever did on the C64 or
- any other old machine.
-
- I believe there was 1 titles released here in the UK last year (1995)
- commercially. It is only small companies (Like yourselves?), Public
- Domain and Scene programmers that still support the machine. But that is
- NOT enough to keep the C64 an active part of todays market. The fact is
- that the C64 (No matter how great a machine it is) is yesterdays
- technology and nobody is interested in supporting it any longer, except
- a few small companies. May I ask if you guys release software for other
- machines than the C64? Obviously you do or you would not be around
- still. There has not been a real market for the c64 for over a year, and
- that is down to the large companies dropping the machine in favour of
- better technology which will provide a better profit margin. Maybe if
- Escom actually decide to start shipping the C64 again worldwide and puts
- money into getting some software companies interested in the system
- again there will be hope. But I can NOT see that happening.
-