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- From: rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser)
- Subject: Market Forces and the Lynx
- Message-ID: <rauser.727945351@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:02:31 GMT
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- Although I no longer own a Lynx, I still like to browse through
- alt.games.lynx every once in awhile for the heck of it. And every time
- there's the usual string of messages slamming Atari for their horrible
- marketing and calling for a letter writing campaign to Toys R Us for
- their poor Lynx support. A recent message suggested this campaign be
- extended to Software Etc. The underlying theme of these messages seems to
- be that the Lynx is an amazing machine that masses of people want to buy,
- but that Toys R Us and Software Etc (and many other retailers) won't let
- them.
-
- Well, I don't know. At the risk of enraging the Lynx loyalists, can
- I say that it's rather pathetic to have to launch a letter writing campaign
- to save your system? Atari places a two page ad in the newspaper and everyone
- on alt.games.lynx goes wild with excitement...isn't this a little sad?
- I mean, come on, guys. I'm starting to get depressed from reading alt.games.
- lynx. It's nothing but teary-eyed demands to write letters to save the Lynx,
- anecdotes about the ignorance of Toys R Us staff and the apathy of Atari
- employees, and moans and groans about how undersupported and downright
- DOOMED the Lynx is.
-
- You certainly don't hear such things from Game Gear, GameBoy (ugh) or
- TurboExpress owners.
-
- So how about we let market forces (that ugly right-wing term...I can't
- believe a liberal like myself would use it!) deal with the Lynx. If Toys R
- Us and Software Etc. aren't selling it, could I politely suggest that's
- because it's no longer selling? Do we really need to bombard them with
- letters demanding they stock the shelves with an unpopular product?
-
- I really liked my Lynx. Honestly I did. I only ditched it because I
- preferred the games Sega had to offer on their Game Gear. But I'll be honest
- here: some of the tripe being posted about the Lynx is starting to make me
- lose respect for the machine. There are suggestions about Atari's total
- incompetence, endless tirades about the Lynx's utter superiority to the
- Game Gear, and allegations that Toys R Us is involved in a big conspiracy
- to sink the Lynx, which Nintendo and Sega recognize as a genuine threat.
-
- Uh, I know I'm going out on a limb here, but maybe, just maybe, the
- Lynx isn't that great a machine. Maybe, just maybe, that's why it isn't
- selling. And maybe, again, just maybe, that's why Toys R Us and Software
- Etc. are backing down.
-
- Or are the Lynxites going to blame Nintendo and Sega for the Kennedy
- assassination as well?
-
- --
- Richard J. Rauser "You have no idea what you're doing."
- rauser@sfu.ca "Oh, don't worry about that. We're professional
- WNI outlaws - we do this for a living."
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- "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." -Dr.Banzai
-