Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: E3 Questions for all who attended, esp. Mario Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:57:29 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 25 Message-ID: <35775E99.6C681DAC@mail.datasys.net> References: <35718657.3581814@news.scea.sony.com> <3576a92c.636582@205.149.189.29> <3576cf57.44658069@news.scea.sony.com> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 97.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Matthew Hulett wrote: > NDAs...[sigh] Why would VM Labs want a NDA on a console coming out > for this X-mas season in October? IMHO, too much mystery can lead to a > disinterested public. Or just an uninformed public. Why wouldn't they > want to show off the prowess of their new system at the biggest show > of the year? Hmmm...... If they didn't have enough software. The hardware may very well be finished and ready, but you have to have software to run on it. Showing a system without software is asking to be totaly screwed over. People will loose intrest VERY quickly. It's better to let out little tid-bits of info and specs, to bait the public and get everyone hyped up. If they show everything now, then the public will get borred. If they show nothing now, and have a suprise launch...Well look at what happened to the saturn. -- 'Darco darco@NOSPAM@bigfoot.com (Replace "@NOSPAM@" with an "@" to email me) UIN: 1454810 (You can page me at http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1454810) Voria: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria PGPKey: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/pgpkey.txt