> > blah blah blah, new MSX blah blah blah, fantasies, blah blah blah,
>
>Normally I would react just like this but this message comes straight
>from Ikeda and Yokoi.
>Yokoi is a personal friend of Kazuhiko Nishi (we all know him, off
>course). And if you read the letter they took to the Tilburg fair,
>you could've read that the Japanese are VERY SERIOUS.
>So lets support them!
It's a mistake that is made very often, and I think Marco's reaction was
partly caused by this classical mistake: the fact that it is often neglected
that there really ARE some cultural differences between two countries with a
distance of about 9000km between them. The Dutch are said to be a
'straight-to-the-point' population, whereas the Japanese could be
characterized as idealistic.
Maybe it is necessary to point out that ASCII as a matter of fact IS a
company and I think it is generally known that companies want to make
profits. It's very unrealistic to think that a professional company would
invest an amount of money in some project that is doomed before even started
with. They don't start some project purely out of nostalgia or something
like that.
I think that it's best not to judge before anything has been realised, since
you don't gain anything by doing so. You even run the risk of having the
enthousiasm of the team working on it decrease. So, let the party begin if
anything proves out to become reality but don't let the world share your
criticism on beforehand.
As Sander wrote, the Japanese are very serious, indeed. I think it might
even be a little insulting to immediately write some gibberish about
'fantasies' before having thought about the situation completely.
Rieks.
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