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Well, I'm in the UK where it was moderately popular, but according to Wikipedia it sold less than a million units in the US as it was sold in toy stores and see

Well, I'm in the UK where it was moderately popular, but according to Wikipedia it sold less than a million units in the US as it was sold in toy stores and seen as a toy compared with PCs which were more expensive.

vidarh 3y ago
The irony is that Commodore in the US pushed it a lot harder as a business / graphics workstation, but they'd ruined their dealer network a few years before and never really managed to build it up again, so they struggled to get it into professional dealers, while they failed to market well to the gamer market. Meanwhile, Commodore UK achieved most of their success by making games bundles that the US was very reluctant to try to push. E.g. the Commodore UK "Batman pack" in '89 was near legendary [1][2] in its ability to drive Amiga sales. Commodore UK did well enough that they tried to assemble a consortium to buy Commodore International when their parent company went bankrupt... [1] https://www.generationamiga.com/2021/05/09/how-batman-changed-everything-for-commodore-amiga-computers/ https://www.generationamiga.com/2021/05/09/how-batman-change... [2] https://www.pczone.co.uk/back-to-the-amiga-500-batman-pack-30-years-later/ https://www.pczone.co.uk/back-to-the-amiga-500-batman-pack-3...