Hi Nicol, When you get 60 mainstream games for $12 which is 20 cents per game they are probably games written twenty years ago so it does not cost them much to repackage them and back then they were about $30 each. Mainstream games have an audience of hundreds of millions of people around the world and sell hundreds of millions of copies, so if you sell one hundred million copies of a game you can charge twenty cents for it and make money. In the accessible game market we are lucky to sell 500 to 1000 copies of a game and if we charged twenty cents for each that would total $100 to $200 which would not cover the cost of the web site to hold them. sincerely, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the unfortune regarding accessible games andmainstream games > Yes, more or less. The tv games I played with my friends wasn't known as > Atari at the store where we bought them. It's a cartridge with a > joystick plugged into the tv. The cartridge looks almost like a tape > recorder. Well, I think that's the little machine that hosts the > cartridge. The cartridge is like a tape you put into this container and > then it has a reset button on the box thing which you can press then it > will quit the current game and put you back into the menu of games. You > select a game by moving the joystick up and down. The joystick we played > with have anavigational button. Its one big button thing but it have 4 > places where you can press, almost like the arrow keys on a keyboard. > Then the joy stick has 4 round buttons. I know one of them was > extentsively used for jumping or shooting. And then there were two small > buttons between the navigation button control and the round buttons. > One of them paused the game; I can't remember what the other one did. > But I was solely referring to these tv games in the cartridge, that > they are cheeper than accessible games. I know the play stations is much > more expensive than accessible games. Thom , I wasn't trying to > criticize anyone; I'm just trying to contribute to the discussion > regarding accessible and main stream gaming. I'm just learning in the > process because accessible gaming is quite a new concept to me, I'm > just expressing my thoughts and learnfrom the opinions expressed by > other members, whether they disagree with me or not. > Thanks > But I must say regarding the sounds of accessible games, its much > better sounds than the tv games. The tv games' sounds is only electronic > sounds because sighted people don't need sounds to help them play the > game; they use graphics, we blind gamers use sound as our main medium of > navigation as we obviously can't use graphics. All I was trying to > say is that sighted people are very fortunate to pay so little for the > tv games. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
