uggbrand@cs.Buffalo.EDU (G. Brandon Brooks) (07/25/89)
CinemaWare has stopped developing games for the Amiga? I found this information to be extremely interesting since only about one month back I read an article in an Amiga magazine about CinemaWare constantly developing their product on an Amiga first because it makes the best impression on an Amiga. Anyway... How many copies of a game program does CinemaWare expect to sell given the small userbase of the Amiga? With 400,000 Amigas in the US, maybe 300,000 people buy games frequently. Out of the (I'm guessing) 20 new titles released every 2 months, I buy one. If I'm along the lines of an average user - some can't afford to buy that often, others can afford more - then 5% of the Amiga userbase buys a new program. That results in about 15,000 sales given no piracy, and it being a good program. I think expecting 50,000 sales of a program is expecting WAY TOO MUCH. CinemaWare programs seem to be the same sort of program over and over again. The main reason I bought 'The Three Stooges' was to impress people over what my Amiga could do. Now I have no reason to pour my money into a CinemaWare game where I get bored with it in a few hours after seeing all the fancy music and graphics. TV Sports Football is the ONLY CinemaWare game which I find enjoyable after about a week. In fact, TV Sports Football has been my FAVOURITE Amiga game for the last 8 months. I'd be interested in learning the number of sales of TV Sports Football and Defender of the Crown (the 1st game they released) compared to the others. Those two should be much higher. Sinbad, Chicago, Lords of the Rising Sun, and SDI should be much lower. -Brandon! As a last note, does anyone know how to update the TV Sports Football disk to make it reflect THIS YEAR'S football season? Or, ahem, will CinemaWare release an upgrade to TV Sports?