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- From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Big name hype
- Message-ID: <71535@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 22:49:58 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <71194@cup.portal.com> <1g2aahINN1ger@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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- Regarding Spectrum Holobyte and "Flight of the Intruder"..
-
- The SH representative who answered questions about why SH was
- NOT going to be releasing ANY more games for the ST said that
- in the first (three?) months of its release, FOTI had sold
- over 10,000 copies on the IBM platform, over 4,000 on the Amiga,
- and only 700 on the Atari ST. With numbers like that, they
- couldn't justify putting any further resources into any other
- ST releases.
-
- I have no idea how a European release might have affected those
- figures (would they have released an ST version in Europe, but
- NOT a PC version there..? Would that have changed the figures
- ratio if they had released all versions there at the same time?)
-
- Is it possible that US game buyers would have bought the US
- version IF there was anywhere in the US to buy ST games..?
- Mail-ordering from the few remaining dealers who stock games from
- Europe (even if they originated in the US) is the ONLY way a lot
- of ST owners in the US have to obtain new ST software anymore.
-
- In any case, I really doubt an early European release would have
- had a significant effect on a 10,000/700 copy ratio.
-
- BobR
-