Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: For all N64 owners... Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:25:33 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 96 Message-ID: <358C610D.7F9AAD84@mail.datasys.net> References: <3589db78.3213996@news.scea.sony.com> <358B34F4.4F1BCE2D@mail.datasys.net> <358b0976.11857847@news.scea.sony.com> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-3.r7.ncbldw.InfoAve.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: > I refer you to Next Generation, July issue, page 24. Your hopes will > only be allayed if they continue to fumble finding a company to design > their next chipset. I haven't read the article yet, but I'll read it when I get a chance. Sounds like it is bad news for nintendo. > >> In fact, I believe that even Saturn > >> has a greater installed base than N64. > > > >I doubt that. > > I can't find my source for this stat, I could be totally off-base. > I sometimes suffer from 'information-haze', the internet is a great > thing... I need a vacation! [LOL] I was doubting purely on intuition, my own common sense, so I could be wrong. > >> It would appear that the 64DD will never be released in the U.S.. > > > >What gave you that impression? > > O.k., hard fact number one: There have been endless delays in > releasing the drive. Hard fact number two, Nintendo made a press > release someodd 6 weeks ago that they are not sure if they will > release the drive in the U.S., they are going to release the 64DD in > Japan first, and then see how well it sells. Ug....... The N64 itself didn't do that well in Japan; I see your reasoning. > Now, we get into the realm of my mad genius... [wink] No add-on has > ever achieved more than 10% market penetration. ONE add-on was a sucess... The CD drive for the PC Engine in Japan. It came out less than a year after the PC Engine came out, and that's probably why it did well at all. > Add-ons have never > succeeded. Nintendo is already getting cold feet, as evidenced by > their press release. They are already chomping at the bit to get their > next system out in the year 2000. Nintendo likes to make money... > I don't think they will take the hardware loss to release a > questionable add-on that will only have a little over a year of > viability. Good evidence for this is that certain titles, i.e. Zelda, > that were announced as 64DD titles are now being done in cartridge > format. > I am not the only one coming to this conclusion, but it is open to > analysis and different interpretations... we shall see. We'll bet a > beer on it! [LOL] The second I ever makes bets, the laws of physics will change to make me loose. If a bet that the sky is blue, then it will turn green the next day. So, no bets. But I hope that nintendo hurries and releases the 64DD. They need a good pack-in for it to be a sucess, so that's probably what the delays are for. They need a blockbuster pack-in title, but they need to hurry up and get the damned thing out before people loose intrest. A small window of success. > > >> So, if your present N64 is replaced that soon, and the 64DD is > >> never released, will you resent Nintendo, or do you think you got fair > >> treatment for your gaming dollar? > > > >I'd be almost as pissed off as the people who bought the virtual boy > >when it first came out. :) > > Get ready. > >I have no regrets for being an N64 user. > > Not yet, young grasshopper. [BG] Whatever, sensay. :) > >Then came their CD-less N64, which did good but could > >have done better. > > Depending on which stats you go with, N64 is being outsold > anywheres between 4-to-1 to 8-to-1 in Japan. If not for the American > market, the N64 would be a flop. Yeah. That sucks. I always was a Nintendo fan, but that doesn't mean that I'm not a fan of sony either. -- '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