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PC Gamer "new" Column

Lutrel

PC Gamer "new" Column

by Lutrel » Fri, 13 Aug 1999 04:00:00

How many readers are there on this news group? 36,000? :-).  Probably not but unless you were a vintage F1 fan or read somewhere
like this news group how good the physics are then you probably would not bother with GPL because the advertising or sales people
that I have seen made it look like just another driving game but with older cars. Also how much of the market is with a younger
generation that does not now who Jim Clark or Jack Brabham are?

The August PC  Gamer (US) has Andy Mohood's introduction. He explains how he has always been a flying and driving sim nut and did
some professional racing (Formula Atlantics).
The September issue he talks about Nascar 3 and why it does not have the GPL engine.

I read an earlier post asking if there are any magazines on driving simulators. Maybe no magazines but now there is an article by a
real race sim fan.

Lutrell :-)

D Sport Racer #74
http://www.racesimcentral.net/



>> Actually, thats what I really though the sales were.  I was thinking near
>> 40-50,000 product sold.  There is many reasons for this, from the complexity
>> of GPL (games don't always have to be created for the mass market), the
>> weird marketing, and somehow just the point that racing simulators were
>> NEVER really as popular as other types of *** software in general.

>I think the distribution must have been one of the worst for a serious product
>ever. It's just now starting to show up in the shelves of many less dedicated
>stores here, at a reduced price. It's release passed totally unnoticed. It's a
>shame.

>Cheers,
>   /ft (in Sweden, before you ask)

Don Hanco

PC Gamer "new" Column

by Don Hanco » Tue, 17 Aug 1999 04:00:00



> Buy the mag, read the piece, and be enlightened!  With no source to
>site(probably www.codemasters.com), I've heard Codemaster managed to sell Colin
>McRae Rally for PC and Console to the tune of 1.5 million copies!  How's that
>for a good number? Good enough for a sequel...

        A VERY important fact to remember: it is COMMON for console
games to approach 1 million copies!!!  A few hundred thousand is a
_disappointment_!!!

Gunner

Don Hanco

PC Gamer "new" Column

by Don Hanco » Tue, 17 Aug 1999 04:00:00

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:13:34 -0700, "Lutrell"

>I read an earlier post asking if there are any magazines on driving simulators. Maybe no magazines but now there is an article by a
>real race sim fan.

>Lutrell :-)

        A shame, too.  Flight sims have "Debrief" (EXCELLENT!!!!) and
"Virtual Pilot" (ALSO excellent).  We have nothing.  'Course, maybe
there aren't enough _driving_ sims to predicate a driving sim rag.
        Personally I'd buy one!

Gunner


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