Re: Why No Ultima VI?

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz>]

In <pan.2005.09.18.03.02.05.253015@nowhere.com> cutterjohn  wrote:
>
> I seem to recall about Garriot/Origin people saying all those years 
> back when there was the great hue-and-cry about U6 bein PC only with 
> their reasoning being no other machine was "powerful" enough to run it.  (
> I suspected at the time, and still suspect that they meant they 
> couldn't have as nice eyecandy on the IIs.  And also now thinking 
> about my mac comment above I wonder if someone at Apple pee'd on 
> Garriot... as the mac II series was even better than the Amiga, 
> graphically... and a MUCH larger market...)

Maybe in the USA, but in most of the world around 1990 the Amiga was 
outselling the Mac, probably by several fold. The Amiga 500 was an 
incredibly popular computer among gamers, mainly because it was cheaper 
than the typical IBM PC-compatible and had better graphics and sound. 
The Mac II on the other hand was way out of the price range of the 
typical home user. The first cheap colour Mac, the Mac LC, was only 
introduced in 1990. And even then it was still several times the price 
of an Amiga 500.

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://roger.geek.nz/
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