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to: JASON LUMPKIN
from: JONATHAN FINGAS
date: 1998-02-11 19:28:00
subject: STATE OF THE N64

 JL> The 64DD will probably not fragment the user base as much as Sega's add-
 JL> ons because the N64 is still relatively early in it's life span.  I 
on't
 JL> think the N64 will come with a modem.  Nintendo is trying to reach a 
price
 JL> point of $99.99 and that is going to be hard to do with just the drive 
and
 JL> the memory upgrade, so I think the modem will get dumped.
  That's an interesting price target... I thought they were actually aiming 
for $150.  But as for the modem, I think they were intending to put it in; in 
a gaming mag I've read (either an NG or EGM issue) a Nintendo employee said 
something to that effect.
--- Maximus 3.01
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