day 91
| twitch 3: i-man says, "bull!" |
Fig. 3. I-Man says the online game player companies are full of Bull.
I-Man. Our conversation went something like this. SpinDoctor: I-Man, I know you have been connected to video games for over a decade, now, and you have seen it all. Is the video game biz about to be rejuvenated by the Internet? I-Man: Who did you say your are? Just a minute, I have 5,000 points racked up and I will miss the record by 100 points if I stop now. SpinDoctor: I write a column called Daily Dose for the SpinDoc zine. This week's article is on video games..... I-Man: Wow! Bim-bang-bong! I think I got 'em! What is a spindoczine? SpinDoctor: It is a web magazine. You know, the next wave of publishing. I-Man: Bunga-lunk, Boom-Bim! 500 more points! I-Man continued to twitch in front of his TV. This gave me time to think. What seems to be happening here is this: video games are a dying breed, PC sales to the home are declining, and people have heard about the Internet, but they don't know what it is. So, software companies are clamoring to cash in by re-directing their markets towards the old video game market. But how can a traditional PC software maker compete against the $200 Nintendos? SpinDoctor: Hey, I-Man, do you think the PC biz will kill the video game biz? I-Man: Bull! So much for the oracle. Maybe I could send him e-mail? Tomorrow, I expose the fallacy of the new interest in playing video games over the Internet. And, I'll describe a business model that makes sense -- stay with me. |
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