Maximum #45 24 октября 1997

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             INTERACTIVE NEWS


 (C) Spencer


   Since then I have, that is, Spencer, will try in every 
newspaper MAXIMUM lead heading "online news", in who tried, 
without hanging the extra b $ #% on the ears, to acquaint you 
with recent and not so recent, but still computer news that I 
get dostoyanno of the mysterious wilds besika. 

   Well, now is not a child without bending your toes
comma, proceed to the serial presentation interaktivschiny:



            News from 3DO


   A former developer of the technology game consoles, and now
simple independent publisher, the company 3DO, was officially
license from Sony to produce games for PlayStation, but
that have been officially declared the company's plans to 
support the format of the Nintendo 64 with his works. The first 
game, which may go on sale later this year will be largely 
converted to products with a game console 3DO, and just not 
acted in the sale of game system M2. 



    Electronic Arts will publish games from Accolade


   The largest independent publisher of gaming products, the 
company Electronic Arts has announced plans to publish another 
American game developer and former publisher Accolade. The 
deal, prisoner for 13 years, gives EA the rights to all games 
of the last, list which includes such popular series of sports

games like HardBall, Test Drive and Jack Nicklaus.



              Statistics


   The other day editorial MAXIMUMA became available 
information on the approximate ratio of sales for the modern 
game (32-64 bits) systems over the past two years among 20 
major U.S. publishers: 



              Publisher Market Share Market Share

                                 in 1995 in 1996


         1.Nintendo 0 4.18

         2.Sony 27.4 16.3

         3.Electronic Arts 9.3 14.9

         4.Acclaim 5.9 7.9

         5.Sega 16.8 7.5

         6.Midway 2.7 7.3

         7.Namco 9.2 4.9

         8.Capcom 0 3.6

         9.Eidos/US Gold 0.4 2.5

        10.Crystal Dynamics 5.1 2.1

        11.Konami 1.2 1.8

        12.Interplay 2.0 1.8

        13.Mindscape 1.0 0.9

        14.Playmates 0 0.9

        15.3DO 3.5 0.8

        16.Virgin 0.7 0.6

        17.LucasArts 0.3 0.5

        18.Panasonic 2.1 0.5

        19.Spectrum Holobyte 0.3 0.5

        20.ASCII 0 0.4



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