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Monday, November 22, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Video game popularity continues
Video game cartridges are still available, but the industry is beginning to introduce CDs to the world of game playing.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Video games are expected to be more popular than ever this holiday season, but consumers face tougher choices about which ones to buy.
It is the second Christmas for compact disc-based game systems but the first where it is clear that the industry is moving away from cartridge systems for good.
So shoppers must decide whether to buy a $50 to $100 cartridge system that will be outdated in a few years or pay considerably more — as much as $700 — for a CD-based system. Another complication is that there are hundreds of cartridge games currently available and only a few dozen on compact disc.
Analysts and industry executives believe most people will stick with cartridge games for another few years.
"The problem is when you look at the other stuff ... there is a very limited variety, and I think that most people are not convinced that what is new or not yet quite here is better," said Lee Igur, an analyst who follows the video game industry for Volpe, Welty & Co. in San Francisco.
"The compact disc revolution with respect to video games is just beginning," said Gary Jacobson, analyst at Kidder, Peabody & Co. "It is more of a 1995 issue."
The discs hold more data and make possible better sound and graphics, including full motion video. With higher-powered chips running the game systems, players also get faster interaction.
Personal computer makers also have started selling more machines that run compact disc-based programs, although a disc that runs on a PC won't work on a video game system.
Sega of America Inc. began selling a $230 CD player that supplemented its popular Genesis system 13 months ago. By the end of the holiday season, cumulative sales of the unit will have passed 1 million, said Bill White. Sega's vice president of marketing.
Newcomer 3DO Co.'s system, sold under Matsushita's Panasonic label, has gotten a lot of attention because it is also designed to become a gateway for more two-way video and communication services. It costs $700.
Philips, the company that developed CDs, sells an interactive game system that, with a $250 video accessory, also plays movies and music video titles. More are on the way. Atari's new $200 Jaguar system, on sale in just a few cities this Christmas, is to have a CD-player accessory, for another $200, early next year. Also in 1994, Commodore will bring the Amiga CD32 that is on sale in the United Kingdom to the United States.
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