Author: Chessfun
Date: 17:28:08 09/15/00
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On September 15, 2000 at 17:16:29, Ritter Rost wrote: >On September 14, 2000 at 12:51:50, James T. Walker wrote: > >>At the risk of being on the wrong side of programmers, I have to agree with >>Enrique. I think programmers, especially commercial programmers put a lot of >>emphasis on the World Championship because of the extra sales it might bring. > >Extra sales, I'd say 500-700 copies, it brings in the market of computer chess >fans. I doubt that it helps much on real-world shelves. More likely it is a bad >handicap. In the real world you have the granny who buys a present for her >grandchild. What's she going to take? The merciless Worldchampion who will shred >her little boy to pieces? Or will she buy ChessMaster instead? She is going to >buy ChessMaster. And ChessMaster sells 100.000 copies per version. And Chessmaster is a lot less money. But as to the volume issue which you could in part say is one of the reasons for the money issue, isn't it just a matter of better marketing and or aligning with someone capable of performing that better marketing. In the real world if two programs are the same price with the same availability granny will buy the Worldchampion. Thanks. Sarah.
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