Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PLAINS.NODAK.EDU!numccann
From: numccann@PLAINS.NODAK.EDU ("Lester I. McCann")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Poor GS software sales reported
Message-ID: <8902050335.AA11262@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 89 03:35:56 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 21


I just read the transcript of the GEnie RoundTable discussion with Infocom
that took place in mid-December.  It wasn't at all encouraging for IIgs owners.

Their sales of GS versions of their games has been very poor.  They are not
planning any GS versions of anything until late summer (that will be a
conversion of QuarterStaff).  They also think that no one else is having much
success selling GS-specific versions of programs, and even mentioned that
companies are starting to pull out of the GS market.  

From memory, I think they said that only 12,000 copies of Bard's Tale 2 for the
GS have been sold (of the 250,000 total copies), and only 8,000 of Paintworks
Gold (though it was mentioned that PWG is a memory hog).  They did point out
that these were only rumored numbers, but rumors do have a tendency to be
based in fact.  Assuming that they are in the ballpark, and assuming that
there are over 500,000 GS machines out there, those numbers seem very poor.
This sort of perception (based in fact?) could well mean we'll be seeing fewer
and fewer new GS products in the future.  Depressing thought, isn't it?

Lester McCann
numccann@plains.nodak.edu   or   numccann@ndsuvax.BITNET