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To: Burlitis who wrote (822)	12/10/1997 8:49:00 PM
From: RJC2006	Read Replies (1) of 833

Well I can't argue with the gist of your post. However, I'll throw this into the mix. My feeling is that it is going to be tougher and tougher to get gamers to throw their bucks down. True, MPRS has some good titles. Magic, Orion, and Civilization are good titles and even their sequels will do good but as in movies you can only put out so many sequels. But gamers are getting to that point where they can say that they have seen it all. Single player shooters are becoming old. Most lack character. Strategy games are interesting but you have to keep coming up with interesting scenarios. Good and true RPG's are near impossible to find. Puzzle games actually are a rip-off as most are so crytic that you have to go the 'net to solve them. So what's my point? It is going to take more than just a scatter gun approach which is what I think most companies are doing. If you put out enough games ONE of them has to catch on. I have my doubts as to the success of this approach. I admit, MPRS has been very good about avoiding this. They have a good lineup but when will their formats become long in the tooth? Now, GT seems to take a different approach in some regards. Sure they do put out some dogs like Mageslayer but they also seem to be working on pushing the envelope by releasing ground breaking games like Total Annihilation. Regardless of what anyone thinks the fact is they came up with a 3-D terrain game. Will Unreal push the envelope of SPS games? I don't know but I imagine with all the delays there HAS to be some unique features. We'll have to see how it all pans out. I predict that there will always be at least 5 major players in the game world. I think this way because most entertainment analysts said that movie houses would go the same way---a fight between 2 or 3 studios but this isn't what happened. I don't see how MPRS can continue to lose the money they are losing in the middle of their strongest games product cycles and avoid being bought out. However, I don't think they are going to get a better offer than 200,000,000.00+ !

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