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Sure, but the amiga was $500, and the PC equivalent was around $2,000 right?
by megablast 3y ago
Sure, but the amiga was $500, and the PC equivalent was around $2,000 right?
- dissent 3y agoIt was more where I lived, but you are right a good PC was probably 2-3 times more expensive. But it wasn't possible to get that gaming experience on the Amiga at any price. This was a year or two before Doom.
- bruce511 3y agoSure, but it's worth pointing out that it's market that matters, not price. PCs were aimed at business. They were a cost-saver. You could iterate fast because businesses have cash, and are eolljng to spend it. Show them that spending on PC saves money, and you can ship fast enough. The churn was insane, but it didn't matter. (And I was fortunately on the receiving end of discarded hardware.) I understood this point when I inherited a "broken" dot matrix printer. I took the head apart cleaned it all up, put it together and it worked. But j already had a printer, so i offered to return it. I wad told "no thanks, the person now has an inkjet, they don't want rhe for matrix back. Being "broken" was an excuse to get an upgrade. Turns out the home market didn't want a new one each year. They didn't want new generations of hardware and software every 5 minutes. Amigas (and Apple 2s) were sold only slightly improved for almost a decade after first release. PCs won because its easier to sell to business than the home. It wasn't Doom that killed Amiga it was Lotus 123.