MikeB on 05 October 2007
@ sieanr
I'd like to hear an explanation as to how your post answers and refutes his claim of game variety?
I respect his opinion, it comes down to personal taste, one thing I liked better about the Snes was games being distributed on cartridges. IMO the Amiga 500 games library overall was better, but I won't deny SMW wasn't the most high profile game.
As far as I can tell, he said the SNES killed what was left of the amiga
No, Commodore ran into financial problems unrelated to the Amiga. For example when Amiga production had to be halted, The CD32 still managed to secure over 50% of the CD-ROM market in the UK in 1993 and 1994, outselling the MegaCD, Philips CDi, and even PC CD-ROM sales. Companies afraid of hardware shortage offered over twice the purchase price on any second hand Amiga hardware they could find, the Amiga 500 and higher specced Amiga platforms continued to see new Amiga games releases well into this millenium.
Ok. If you want the "best" version of every game then why did you get the shitty version of Another World for Amiga? The DOS version offers smoother, bug tested gameplay and a whole new level, while the Mac version is the same but in a higher resolution.
I don't think a Mac version was available at the time.
And I owned an Amiga at the time, not a PC! MSDOS emulation on the Amiga was quite slow, the Mac version could probably run under emulation without problems, but wasn't even available at the time when I bought the game.
I also believe the MSDOS version was released in 1992, not in 1991 like the Amiga original.
Yet this makes your original argument about SNES lacking variety valid?
I have already given my response, for me the Snes games library was too limited beyond a few Nintendo published titles. I have provided a few reasons you can reread above. Don't agree? Then don't. So what? Two people with a different opinion. It's not the first time this has happened in this world.
