Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 09, 2004 11:31 PM
I strongly suspect he is referring only to the Amiga when he says that Commodore did not acknowledge that they were good for playing games. Commodore certainly advertised this fact for the pre-Amiga models.
However, it was about this time that Commodore changed ownership, and the new ownership had the strategy that they wanted to be taken seriously as a business computer. They were afraid that the Amiga being popular as a game machine would tarnish its business image, so they purposely downplayed its game playing ability and didn't encourage game development. This was unfortunate, since it was the most game-friendly computer in existence at the time. The old management had made sure of this because games were part of their sales strategy.
In hindsight it's easy to see that the strategy of the new management was a mistake. However, you could also make a good argument that pushing the Amiga as a game machine wouldn't have made much difference in the long run because it was time for the PC to make the transition from the office to home, and people were purposely buying home PCs to be compatible with their office PCs. The truth is that we'll never know for sure.
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Re:Commodore Not Acknowledge Games?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 09, 2004 11:31 PMHowever, it was about this time that Commodore changed ownership, and the new ownership had the strategy that they wanted to be taken seriously as a business computer. They were afraid that the Amiga being popular as a game machine would tarnish its business image, so they purposely downplayed its game playing ability and didn't encourage game development. This was unfortunate, since it was the most game-friendly computer in existence at the time. The old management had made sure of this because games were part of their sales strategy.
In hindsight it's easy to see that the strategy of the new management was a mistake. However, you could also make a good argument that pushing the Amiga as a game machine wouldn't have made much difference in the long run because it was time for the PC to make the transition from the office to home, and people were purposely buying home PCs to be compatible with their office PCs. The truth is that we'll never know for sure.
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