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- From: rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video
- Subject: Re: Next generation handhelds
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 17:09:28 -0800
- Organization: Southern California Lynx Enthusiasts
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- In article <C076yw.BwC@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> mphall@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (!bonk!) writes:
- > Seems like I can't escape this idiotic thread on this group.
-
- Escape? Seems to have come up rather sudden, myself.
-
- > I didn't, whoever just said this, "invest" inthe goddamned game.
- >I bought it because it has cool games and it would take me (current
- >estimate) about three years to play through the whole library thanks to
- >my decidedly un-power playerish attitude toward a toy. ...
- > Ugh. Another thread I have to trash now, thanks to this whole
- >"Sure it's neat, but will it meet your needs into the third quarter of
- >1995 as current market projections on the Game Gear indicate" idiocy.
-
- I think it's human inertia. People would rather buy system X and get
- games for it for a long time, than buy a new system every other year and
- "rebuild" a library of titles for the next new toy. Sure, you're not
- replacing X with Y, but there's something about human nature that makes us
- prefer to just pick one system and stick with it. Go figure.
-
- (Yeah, I know about folks who buy every console out there and get cool
- games for each one, but I do think those folks are in the minority)
-
- Why do we do this? My only guess is that buying yet another console is not a
- totally trivial act, like buying a new brand of cereal. I mean, if I were to
- buy an SNES now, I'd need to spend $90-$120 for a console and two controllers,
- as well as $50-$70 for a game for it. Maybe more, if I'd rather have several
- new titles to play with my new toy, instead of one. Then you throw in getting
- used to the controls, and allocating space in the room for it, etc., etc.,
- etc. Again, it's not a horrible expenditure of effort, but there is one
- anyway. It is certainly more of a "hassle" than to plunk down $40-$60 for
- another Genesis game instead.
-
- Human nature. Go figure.
-
- --R.J.,
- who'd buy a Game Gear if
- there were enough cool
- games for it, but there
- aren't many IHO...
- B-)
-
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