Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:18:09 07/05/00
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On July 05, 2000 at 16:39:20, John Merlino wrote: >On July 05, 2000 at 15:54:03, Mogens Larsen wrote: >>On July 05, 2000 at 15:22:08, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>On the other hand, if the stuff on the box is true, then it has sold 100 times >>>as many programs as all of the others put together. >> >>That's probably true. I guess it appeals to a broader audience, which isn't bad >>IMHO. There has to be something for everyone and by most accounts a nice >>program. >> >>Best wishes... >>Mogens > >Just in case anybody's curious (and I'm DEFINITELY sure that this is off-topic, >but what the hell), the entire Chessmaster line (CM7000, CM6000, CM5500, CM5000, >CM6000 Mac, Chessmaster II Playstation and Chessmaster for the Color GameBoy) >sold approximately 625,000 total units in 1999, for a total revenue of just >under $7 million after returns. > >Chessmaster 7000, for 1999 (really only a little less than the last three months >of the year), sold about 97,000 units, for about $2.7 million in revenue after >returns. > >I would certainly call that a "broader audience" than the other programs that >are talked about here, but I would never say that one program is better than >another simply because of sales (or, on the other hand, isn't worth buying just >because you can find it on the shelf next to The Sims). Actually, I think this information will be incredibly interesting to many of the chess programmers, because it gives information about the size of the market.
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