XPost: comp.sys.cbm, rec.games.video.classic   
   From: sgillettnospam@diespammergte.net   
      
   "Didimo" wrote ...   
      
   > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:04:33 GMT, "Sam Gillett"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>You are free to post your views.  But, you are rather foolish if you expect   
   >>us to agree with them.   
   >   
   > Ehm... the same applies to you, dude. Don't expect us to agree with   
   > yours ;-).   
      
   I don't expect you to agree with me about everything.  But, would it be too   
   much to expect if I ask you to find the real reason for the "crash" of the   
   video game console industry in the mid 1980's?  I do not think Jack Tramiel   
   caused the death of Atari, but even if he did, how does that explain all the   
   other makers of video game consoles crashing also?   
      
   Atari having problems in the video game console market and cutting production   
   should have improved the market for Atari's competition.  But, it did not.   
   The consoles that were competing with Atari went the way of the dinosaur   
   also.  Could that have been Jack's fault?  I think not!   
      
   Could it have been temporary over-saturation of the market that caused the   
   crash?  I say temporary because the market for video games did not disappear.   
   Nintendo proved that the market still existed a few years later.   
      
   Why do you insist on using Jack as a scapegoat for something that could not   
   have been his fault.  Market saturation is only one of several possible   
   theories.  Why don't you people try to figure out what really happened?  If   
   you don't, it could happen again without warning.  What will you do when   
   Nintendo and Sony are gone?   
   --   
   Best regards,   
      
   Sam Gillett   
      
   If you don't pay your exorcist,   
   will you become repossessed?   
      
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