16-bit a winner during Christmas season - video game industry - Home Products: Consumer Electronics

Discount Store News, Jan 6, 1992

And then, with no installed base, there would be no way to make back any of the investment, Hawkins noted. So, while both developers are researching the interactive CD business, neither has any plans to enter production. Seven or eight CD systems might be on the market a year from now; but they will be very expensive razors with few, if any, razor blades for sale.

With all these problems assailing interactive media, it looks like 16-bit, once discounted as a mere "bridge" product, may remain state-of-the-art in the mass market for the foreseeable future.

PHOTO : The Good Guys, Stonestown, Calif.: Full range of Super NES software will hit shelves in early '92.

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