Re: Big name hype

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From: sheppard_r
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 08:17

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In article <71535@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>Regarding Spectrum Holobyte and "Flight of the Intruder"..
> 
>The SH representative who answered questions about why SH was
>NOT going to be releasing ANY more games for the ST said that
>in the first (three?) months of its release, FOTI had sold
>over 10,000 copies on the IBM platform, over 4,000 on the Amiga,
>and only 700 on the Atari ST.  With numbers like that, they
>couldn't justify putting any further resources into any other
>ST releases.
> 
> 
>BobR

Bob there was a masive big flaw in this argument, they never ever counted
the European sales of FOTI, this is the one big flaw in all USA Software
sales, they only look at USA Sales..

Is it not that 90% of the Atari market is in Europe..??.

Also note: when FOTI came out there were 3 or more releases of similar or
better flight simulators at about the same time..!!...

I don't think that Spectrum Holobyte did there home work right..??

May be some one should tell them...??

Roger...............            sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

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Date: 15 Dec 1992 08:17:05 GMT
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