Bobby Kotick (Activision) wanted to buy Commodore

[Bif]

I came across this nugget today. Not sure if this was ever revealed before:
 
"The exec also revealed that in 1987, he tried to buy Commodore in association with a hedge fund partner. He believed that taking the Amiga 500 and removing the keyboard and mouse would create a dedicated video game console that "would have eclipsed anything being sold at the time" -- even Nintendo's NES. Although it didn't work out, it made Kotick passionate about building a video game company."

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27299/DICE_2010_Kotick_Talks_Passion_For_Industry_Debuts_Indie_Contest.php
 
I guess that might have been nice for gamers, but me thinks it would have created an even bleaker future for Amiga users.

[Tension]

Cdtv

EDIT: Why does Amiga.org not let me say CDTV in capitals?

Bloody new owners :roll:

[desiv]

I suppose the difference would have been marketing.
It probably would have been solely a games machine in that case, not a Video appliance that also plays games.

And probably wouldn't have cost as much, trying to target the NES audience.

Interesting.

desiv

[Karlos]

Cdtv

EDIT: Why does Amiga.org not let me say CDTV in capitals?

Even stranger that it apparently did in your edit :lol:

Bloody new owners :roll:

Much more likely to be some odd post content setting buried in vbulletin somewhere.

[NovaCoder]

Cdtv

EDIT: Why does Amiga.org not let me say CDTV in capitals?

It's probably a banned word (for good reason).

[Hell Labs]

Don't let Tone007 hear that, we don't want him white knighting that bloody thing in here as well.

[VingtTrois]

About all the regrets of Bobby KOTICK at the DICE summit:
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/37616/DICE-Bobby-comes-clean
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/37637/Kotick-wanted-Commodore-console