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From: lbotez@pro-sol.cts.com (Lynda Botez)
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Subject: Re: Apple's committment to the // line
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Date: 17 Oct 89 09:19:54 GMT
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Matthew Montano writes:
>Why should something be the state of the art to be sellable?  Ever heard of 
>Nintendo?  The machine itself pales in comparison internally to an Apple IIe,
>but our stores sells hundreds.  Why?  Because it is a good product.

Interesting that you brought up the Nintendo as an example of a technically
inferior product being the best selling video game machine.  As most of you
are aware, the next generation of video game machines are out on the market
just in time for Christmas.  Except for Nintendo's model, there is Sega's
Genesis (a 16-bit model); NEC's TurboGrafx-16 (pseudo-16-bit); new machines
that have much better graphics, but have much higher price tags (about twice
as much as a conventional NES) and whose software is not compatible with the
older 8-bit type.  I can't quite remember why Nintendo isn't introducing it's
new machine (which is already a big seller in Japan), but I can't help but
wonder if these new machines will be big sellers this Christmas.

I own a Nintendo (or rather, my kids do).  I can tell you right now that there
will be NO new video game machine in our house this year.  After spending
hundreds of dollars on game cartridges, the last thing I'm going to do is go
out and purchase a machine that requires entirely new software, and costs
twice as much to boot!  I'd rather buy a few new games than a new machine. Of
course, I may change my opinion in a year or two, but the current Nintendo
seems to be sufficiently adequate for what it does.

It will be interesting to see how the sales go on the new game machines.

Lynda