MikeB on 11 July 2008
| Untamoi said: @MikeB: While C64 was a huge success, Amiga was a huge disappointment in sales. C64 sold 30 million while Amiga (all models included) only sold 6 million worldwide. Amiga only sold decently in Europe and even there it never sold even half as much as C64. |
That's correct in terms of total sales, for example despite heavy use of hollywood and TV operators, etc in the United States, just in Italy alone more Amigas were sold than for the US as a whole.
For professional use the Amiga was priced as the Ferrari amongst available computers of the time (much unlike the C64) and Commodore generated good profits from this without changing the basic design much over the years.
The most important markets for the Amiga were the United Kingdom and Germany with regard to gaming, about 1.7 million sales in Germany and 1.8 million for the UK. Hence most of the thousands of Amiga games were made in Europe.
