Re: OT $1.95 synth!

[Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>]

Back in the day of analogue synths, like mid eighties, I heard that the market (moneys in) for synths all together equalled the market of one big Safeway.   And that was when a good synth cost big bucks.

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On 13-Jun-07, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Larson wrote:

> > For so long I've wondered, "Why don't music software companies price
> > like game software?"  Sell many units for less.  
>
> Because the size of the markets aren't even close to the same.  I
> don't have any hard data, but I'd be surprised if the number of units
> of game software sold isn't at least a hundred times larger than the
> number of units of music software.  You can't "make it up in volume"
> if there is no volume.