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From: Jerry_Jessop@Playstation.Sony.Com (Jerry Jessop)
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Subject: Re: Did anyone see this?
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 22:32:47 GMT
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Bill's comments were from an article online at www.gamasutra.com
recently. 

Jerry



On Tue, 07 Apr 1998 17:41:10 GMT, matth@bellatlantic.net (Matthew
Hulett) wrote:

>
>>Bill Rehbock said:
>>
>>"The one thing you could do with Net Yaroze is a very good game
>>prototype. It                  can't stream data from the CD. In my
>>humble opinion the pricing of the Yaroze system was insane. $750 is too
>>high for a hobbyist thing."
>
>   Where did you get this quote from? I'd like to read the whole
>article. Considering that we were given the opportunity to educate
>ourselves on a modern 32-bit system, and that even Digipen students
>are learning on SNES systems,  I found the price to be tolerable.
>There's never been an opportunity before like this. I doubt Sony is
>making much money at all from the program. I think Bill has a conflict
>of interest, I wouldn't be surprised to find out VM Labs is planning
>to release a hobbyist kit to compete with Sony when Project X is
>released this August. What better way to get prospective talent
>working in your corner, supporting your system?
>
>-Matt