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Re: Future Mindstorm Releases?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:46:03 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, Juergen Stuber wrote:
> > Jon Gilchrist <robots@DEELEETEf3p.com> writes:
> > > There are other stirrings that *something* is happening with
> > > Mindstorms, but nobody seems to know what.
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> > Can you tell us more about those stirrings?
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> There were two things Jake said during his speech at Brickfest.
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> 1) Mindstorms is NOT dead.
> 2) The future of Mindstorms is not the 2.0
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> With the popularity of FLL, I find it very unlikely LEGO would stop making the
> RCX.
I know this is a tangent from the current conversation...
Some Commodore guy said years ago that the magic price point for electronics is
300 dollars--if you get it under that, they sell like hot-cakes, thus the
success of the VIC 20 and then the C=64 (when the 64 got under the 300 dollar
mark).
The thing is, both the Vic and the 64 sold amazingly well at 300 bucks, but,
after a year, they became cheaper--the last 64 I bought new was at a Zellers for
99.99--that was about 4-5 years after the 64 hit the 300 dollar mark.
Now the RIS, new on the shelf, even after being on the market for the same
amount of time as the 64, is still 300 bucks (CDN--btw, all funds discussed in
this post are CDN ;) )
There are a few differences--Commodore computers became cheaper to make after a
while, and there was stiff competition from Atari, TRS-80 and Apple--the RCX has
no such competition. Whether the RCX is cheaper to make today than it was when
it first came out, I'd imagine but I do not know.
What I do know is that if the price of an RIS 2.0 set came down to the 150-200
dollar mark (again, CDN), I'd buy a few more.
As it stands, $299.99 is very pricey after it's been on the market for as long
as it has, imho.
Dave K
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> However, again because of the FLL, I doubt they will make the huge jump many
> AFoLs are hoping for.
Eh, that's why we have John Barnes :)
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> Steve
Dave K
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| (...) I'n my kids schools they don't want to know about lego because of the cost. They say picaxe is more suitable cause its cheaper and scaleable. The kids make structural components themselves in other areas of the technology curriculum like (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) There were two things Jake said during his speech at Brickfest. 1) Mindstorms is NOT dead. 2) The future of Mindstorms is not the 2.0 With the popularity of FLL, I find it very unlikely LEGO would stop making the RCX. However, again because of (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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