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Originally Posted by Nobby_UK
No Full Motion Video support/availability ?
There was a FMV Expansion for £100 ? Extra.
Hard to choose between 'Too Late' + 'Poor Marketing' coz they are linked.
But putting a One Disk Game on a CD ?!?!
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The FMV Cartridge came out, not sure the question of availability, but no surprise support was null bar two titles as it came out only a couple of months before Commodore went under, why spend time and money on something only 1k ish people had?
An Amiga based CD console too late in 1993? Not at all, underpowered yes, but had Commodore survived more cd only games were due to be launched and i know i had fun with mine, it all wasn’t just about graphics back then, machines like the PC Engine Duo a dominant 2d cd machine was selling well into 1995 in Japan as were obviously cartridge machines like the Megadrive and SNES, i think people tend to remember ‘oh the PS1 came out in 1995’ end of story blah blah when in fact there was a vibrant and imo lot more interesting gaming scene on many levels before it hit with 8bit and 16/32 bit systems still selling in the sector.
Marketing wise, it wasn’t that bad esp considering their budget, got some good TV coverage at the launch with Chris Evans, had their infamous TV ad and advertising board outside Sega HQ, with their budget they did pretty good, compare it to the CDTV and you can see they learned alot, compare it to something like the Atari Jaguar which had no TV advertising.
Who cared if a great game that came on 1 disk for the Amiga had a port to the CD32? as long as the game was great and the price was reasonable i certainly didn’t, one more great game for the machine, better that than the machine not having the game at all.