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To: Sleeperz who wrote (283)	3/4/1998 1:37:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) of 633

>>>CodeWarior seems pretty inexpensive @ US$899.00<<< Well, CR, you have a point. But consider, what brilliant middle school kid entralled by gaming is going to buy this? It's a far cry from the $19 compilers of the early 80's. Consider the process of going into business doing a game: 1. Invent the game in advance. No spontaneity, because you have to sell the treatment/proposal to the manufacturer of the console in order to be licenced for development on that platform. 2. Wait months for tools. 3. Pay them 10-50 thousand for tools, total. 4. Have them watch over your shoulder, with the right to cancel your project at any time. Develop for a machine far less capable than a PC, regretting the features you have to cut to stuff an app into that cheap box. 5. Sell through their approved marketing & distribution system. Into a market 10% the size of the potential PC market. 6. Try to collect your money, if any is left. So the only people who are going to develop for consoles have money, and understand the corporate mentality (or get duped into investing.) Definitely not something for kids. Unfortunately, because we are talking games here. And that's why there are so many more games for PC. Cheers, Chaz

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