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Subject: Re: A Market Already Collapsed

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 01:55:03 11/02/98

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I totaly disagree. Chess programs like CM6000 are clearly in the <50$ range but
are on the shelves everyware. I think others can try the same. For people not
using internet it is complicate to buy Fritz. And I even doubt they know about
many programs, like Rebel, which are not widely distributed. I think that as
long prorgammers are going to follow only a niche of top players, they are also
going to share this few customers and make smallr margins (due to the larger
offer). So the only solution I see is to get in touch with some big
distributors. I'd love to find Rebel on each shelves in PC shops. ~100 DM is a
reasonable price for a pc game, so why not going after the huge market of PC
game funs. Andnobody prevents developers to go on making a better software, may
be they'll have to put in some exrta multimedia stuff, but this shouldn't hurt
the quality of the rest.

regards
Franz



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