Quote:
I got a rash of crap here for my opinion, but here we are a few years later and what I said is EXACTLY how it came to pass.
Discontinued.
Did not sell well.
I don't think it was so much for your opinion, but the way you presented that opinion that rubbed some people the wrong way...
And I'm not sure that it's really "exactly" the way you said it would come to pass. I don't feel like going back and re-reading the entire thread, but if I recall correctly you were anticipating this stuff happening almost immediately, and it didn't. Of course it's been discontinued...all products are discontinued at some point, aren't they?
And I'm not sure that it did not sell well. It was clear from the get-go that Korg didn't anticipate selling huge numbers of these, but it seems that it sold at least as well as they expected it to.
I'm just guessing based on what's happened price wise here, but I'd guess that it performed much closer to Korg's expectations than, say, the M3. The Oasys was on the market for four years and the street price for the 88-note model stayed the same, and the price for the 76-note model dropped once by less than 10%. The M3 keyboards have been around for half that time and I've noticed several price drops, rebates, incentives, etc...and they're now selling for 20-25% less than they were initially. Again, I'm just guessing here, but that tells me that relatively speaking, the Oasys performed much closer to their expectations than the M3 has thus far.
Again, though, that is pure conjecture...but there seems to be plenty of that going on around here.