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- From: kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Atari Conference at GEnie 9/9
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.035605.9424@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 03:56:05 GMT
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- In article <18lktuINNj11@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:
- >
- >If I were the Tramiels, I'd ship a shit load of them over to
- >Europe and sell them like hotcakes.
- >
- >I'd ship a couple of them to each of the Atari dealerships
- >and have them take orders from October to the beginning of December.
- >I would then ship the Falcon's orderd in December in time for
- >Christmas.
- >
- >I'd also get those machines to developers immediately, though,
- >I suspect that very few U.S. developers are eager to develop for the
- >machine.
- >
- >This way, everyone is happy.
- >
- >But to tell you the truth, this Christmas season belongs to the
- >Lynx. Next year's Christmas season will belong to the Falcon.
- >And 1994's Christmas season will belong to the Jaguar.
- >
- >I bet Atari will be able to sell a few million Lynx systems and
- >around ten million game cards this Christmas if they advertise it
- >enough. My gosh, they will have 80 some game cards available.
- >
- >QUALITY game cards.
-
-
- Funny you should say that about the Falcon030's marketing since
- that's EXACTLY what they're doing. Also, the Jaguar is due
- around Spring 1993, so even 1993's Christmas season could
- "belong to the Jaguar."
-