Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!chaph.usc.edu!aludra.usc.edu!jjung
From: jjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: lynx
Message-ID: <15926@chaph.usc.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 02:40:21 GMT
References: <7868@crash.cts.com> <269@eliza.edvvie.at>
Sender: news@chaph.usc.edu
Organization: O-Mayer V BBS
Lines: 32
Nntp-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <269@eliza.edvvie.at> schweigl@edvvie.at (Johnny Schweigl/2113674) writes:
>From article <7868@crash.cts.com>, by chuckie@pro-odyssey.cts.com (Chuck Schul):
>> anyone know much on the atari lynx and how it is doing worldwide?
>
>Hmm. Nice thing, color, sound, could have been a success. If not Nintendo
>had thrown it's GameBoy into the market. No Color, a little less sound,
>but astonishingly small, much cheaper (that's what impresses the kids,
>i think)

  No, Nintendo hype (reenforced with NINTENDO POWER magazine) influences the
kids. As for being more competitive, you can now buy a Lynx base package
for $99 here in the 'States (versus $89 for the Gameboy).

  Portable game system market so far:

        Nintendo Gameboy        $89        B&W, 1-2 players
        Atari Lynx              $99/$149   Color, 1-8-??? players
        Sega Game Gear          $149       Color, 1-2 players
        NEC TurboExpress        $300+      Color, 1-2 players, accepts
                                             TurboGraphix-16 games

  I don't know nothin' about economics, but it looks like Atari can turn
this into a major rout and kick every other system out of the market. It
all depends on getting more games and good advertising, IMO.

                                                --R.J.
                                                B-)

//////////////////////////////////////|\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Send whatevers to jjung@nunki.usc.edu | If it has pixels, I'm for it.
--------------------------------------+----------------------------Lynx me up!
       "If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, shoot it anyway."