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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Big name hype
- Message-ID: <1gk4a1INNion@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
- From: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 08:17:05 GMT
- Reply-To: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
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- In article <71535@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- >Regarding Spectrum Holobyte and "Flight of the Intruder"..
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- >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.
- >
- >
- >BobR
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- Bob there was a masive big flaw in this argument, they never ever counted
- the European sales of FOTI, this is the one big flaw in all USA Software
- sales, they only look at USA Sales..
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- Is it not that 90% of the Atari market is in Europe..??.
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- Also note: when FOTI came out there were 3 or more releases of similar or
- better flight simulators at about the same time..!!...
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- I don't think that Spectrum Holobyte did there home work right..??
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- May be some one should tell them...??
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- Roger............... sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
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