SOFTWARE sales for the Amstrad CPC machines have dropped drastically recently, to the point where many software houses no longer see the machine as a viable outlet for software. Sales have never been brilliant," says Pete Stone of Palace Software, "and lately they've been worse." He says there were suryes of sales after the launches of the various CPC machines, but that the machines have produced few if any big hits "Well still do Amstrad games, but it's only worth doing if you produce them on tape and disc and sell them throughout Europe " Gargoyle Games has also found the CPC games market to be very unpredictable of late. "Certainly the sales abroad exceed the sales at home at the moment." said Gargoyle and Faster Than Light s Greg Follis. "The sales on disc hero are so shaky that, although you get some sales, we prefer not to sell on Amstrad disc in the home market ' Recent figures from Gallup, which produces games software charts, confirm that the sales on the CPCs are very low indeed The Amstrad share of titles sold remains relatively stable around 16 -17 per cent, but these are confined mainly in positions 51-150. with only one title. Beau Jolly s Computer Hits 3. in one recent top 50 Sales on the CPCs are only a fraction of those on the Spectrum and 64. and in the top 50 even seem to be beaten by the C16 and the Atari 8-bit machines The lop 50 across all formats does, however, indicate how much the CPCs benefit from conversions, as hits available in Amstrad format run at a healthy 20-25 of the top 50 titles. The Spectrum and Commodore 64 only do marginally better than this, with 30-35 each of the top 50 Popular Computing Weekly (1986-11) | ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ A voir aussi sur CPCrulez , les sujets suivants pourront vous intéresser... |
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Page créée en 646 millisecondes et consultée 453 foisL'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
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