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In article <3olve9$p...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
John Marconi <mar...@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>I don't 
>understand why a company would produce games for a lesser audience.

Because at least initially, there's no competition.  If you're writing a
DOS or Windows game, you're going to need tons of money to even put it in a
box that will stand out on the shelf, or you'd better make the "first hit
free" (e.g. Doom), in which case, it'd better be a *damn* good game (like
Doom).  And if you're a small company, it's getting pretty hard to compete
with the likes of Lucas Arts.

Whereas, the OS/2 game market is empty--if you write a game, you have a
smallish market, sure, but you also have almost no competition.  People
will hear about your game, people will play it, and you'll sell (quite
possibly) more copies than you would have writing for a much bigger, but
overcrowded, market.

Adam

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