Even if it were half the OS 3.5 sales for an OS Enhancement Pack, that would still be
MORE than the number of potential PPC purchases Hyperion can expect. They say, what,
approximately 10,000 PPC boards were sold by phase5/DCE. Now take into consideration the number of dead/forgotten/abandoned boards, then say 50% of existing owners of the PPC boards will get OS 4, you're still looking at an
optimistic number around the order of 5,000 MAX potential OS 4 sales.
Now take the number of straight 68K machines still in use and out there...what type of number is that? Who really knows? But probably higher than the PPC numbers. Take a
percentage of that who would get this Enhancement Pack, then add the number of potential other customers (Amiga Forever, Amithlon, WinUAE), and you probably come up wtih a number higher than what Hyperion can safely sell with a PPC-only product.
Now take the AmigaOne people (way less than 1000) and take Pegasos users (less than 600) .... you can see from a market perspective, even if many people don't agree with it, it could be a
win-win situation.
Win for
Hyperion because basically they already have 68k versions of the modules anyway, and win for the users who have invested alot of time, money and sweat on their 68K machines. Amiga Inc. would be seen as extending goodwill to Amiga Users who have stayed in this market for years...
Plus it also gets MORE people using the new OS - which is a good thing--probably doubling the OS 4 users. Now these 68K users will get hooked on the OS again and upgrade later to PPC.
It also gets MORE cash back into Hyperion right away...who can complain with that?
To that guy that said 68K is dead, dead, dead.... well it lives on quite nicely and EXTREMELY fast in Emulation, plus Motorola still sells the chips. AND there is the Amiga Coldfire project (for which the new prototype board was just finished), which is "mostly" compatible wtih 68K....so I disagree.
