Tens of millions of dollars (depending on how many of the platform sell): 1) Each unit would cost more to produce...not much more, but say $2 per unit...multiply this by 20 million units and it ads up. 2) It causes even more money loss because people then aren't buying multitaps. This is a way for hardware manufacturers to actually make some profit on hardware (instead of software only).
Hugh -----Original Message----- From: Lee K. Seitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Soccer games (was:Shock) Hugh Falk boldly stated: > >I agree with more esoteric peripherals...but not a multi-tap. If you have >an 4-player game concept, you will support it without doubt. Multitap >support is easy and multitaps are plentiful (relatively). Only if there is a standard multi-tap method. As I recall, the Sega Gensis ended up with two multi-tap standards. [Pause....] Ah, here we go (http://www.alienbill.com/vgames/multiplayer.html). Okay, so it seems it's actually EA's fault for introducint their own multi-tap system before Sega themselves did. And really, I have to ask, just how much cost does two controller ports add to a console? -- Lee K. Seitz * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/ Wanted: Vintage Pac-M*n necktie (The asterisk is to keep from mucking up people's Usenet search results. Replace it with an "a", if you didn't know.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
