[News] Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Nov-2001 20:45 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 194 comments View flat View list |
Christoph Gutjahr interviewed Hyperion about AmigaOS 4.0.
You can read the interview on amiga-news.de in English or in German.
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Posted by Mekanix on 08-Nov-2001 18:40 GMT | In reply to Comment 127 (priest): > OS4 does not yet exist. No-one knows
> how much it will sell, or how much
> pegasos will sell.
No, but we do know how big the market is. Look at the latest salesfigures of OS 3.5/3.9, don't expect sales to exceed that. No, expect it to be significantly less.
The illusion that OS4.x would make someone convert *to* Amiga is just absurd. Someone outside the community might buy OS4.x for their x86 box (if it were released) out of curiosity or for nostalgic reason. But buying new HW? Forget it.
> So you dislike ported games.
> I want them!
I've got nothing against ported games. But hey, why would I go out and pay full price for a game, when everyone have stopped playing it and I can get the original at a discount at every store?
Example, by the time Loki *announced* they'd port Deus Ex I've already completed the game. If Loki had released their port within 1-2 month after the official release I most certainly would have bought the Loki-port.
> And I'm pretty sure that Loki did
> not have many choices, they had to
> pay licenses and development costs
> from a lot smaller sales than windows
> game had.
If Loki (and Hyperion) wants to stay in business, they'd need to get in touch and get licenses long befor official releases so that ports will not lack behind.
> IMO: dualbooting was wrong choise.
Multibooting is great. You can't get around that most people would want or need to boot Windows. Putting the user into a either MyOS or Windows most will choose Windows. With multibooting you're still in the game.
And that's a fairer choice, letting the *user* choose. By doing the choice for the user, you are just doing what we hate MS of doing.
> Perhaps they should try to sell Warp3D for
> Amithlon users, just to check if they are
> willing to pay for it. If they are, they might
> even buy Hyperions latest 68k game Descent Freespace
> ... 8) I would.
I wouldn't. Descent Freespace might be a golden oldie, but it's still not antique enough to warrent a full price. And as long as it's only old games utilizing Warp3D I really don't see any use for it.
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