The Amiga was "winning" for a few years but, in hindsight, it is easy to see why it was eventually eclipsed. PCs in the mid-80s were slow, boring, and expensive

The Amiga was "winning" for a few years but, in hindsight, it is easy to see why it was eventually eclipsed. PCs in the mid-80s were slow, boring, and expensive but the ruthless PC-clone market had lowered costs and increased specifications so quickly that around the early 90s games actually started looking better on PCs. Although the base Amiga500s were cheap, adding things like hard drives and more memory were always expensive. The bigger and more capable models were just as expensive as their PC counterparts and Commodore were slow to react to competition. In the end it was one struggling company against many PC Clone makers and they just couldn't compete on price or features. The final nail in the coffin was when Windows95 came out and Microsoft started focusing on the home/school market.