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Technology Stocks : 3DO: Hot Games for Hot Machines (THDO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Patrick O'Connor who wrote (3841)	4/5/2001 5:22:31 PM
From: Bruce Prescott	Respond to of 4081

"Trip's Sony strategy will prove to be his 'pièce de résistance'." I like that. Now if the stock would break through some "technical resistance" and rise to a more reasonable level -- say, around $5 a share. It really irritated me to see 3DO go down with ERTS yesterday when x-box delays surfaced. We didn't rise with them.

To: David Patrick O'Connor who wrote (3841)	4/5/2001 8:29:06 PM
From: Bruce Prescott	Respond to of 4081

The most encouraging quote from Trip's AOL interview: "Audience: What is your online gaming strategy? We have a very interesting patent that protects some ideas and technology for Internet entertainment, but most importantly it uses a business model that we think will be very effective because what people would actually pay for would be collectible characters that have multiple uses. And we intend to build an entertainment system for launch next year based on these ideas. And if it works, it will remind people of the consumer behavior around product lines such as "Pokemon" trading cards except that in the digital world we have a lot more versatility to apply these digital characters in many different entertainment uses including multiple different games." If Trip has discovered something that people will actually pay for in online games, we should be very happy. I remember Sony saying something about this when they talked about the internet gaming they planned for the PSX 2 -- but they didn't mention 3DO when they talked about it. If 3DO holds the patent, stockholders should do very well.