Guesses on amount of people related to amiga.(this includes all ages and all countries)

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Im>bE wrote:
People that have bought one or more
brand new amiga computer:
~20.000.000

Tell me how that worked and I'll be filthy rich real soon  :-D
Hint : The number of all Amigas ever produced is somewhere between
3 and 7 million (depending on the lack of rational of whom you ask).

But who really cares ?

People within the community prepared to shell out on Amiga-related HW:
<5000

People within the community prepared to shell out on Amiga-related SW:
<1000

People remembering the Amiga as something more than a game-console
with keys, but not the f***-ups of the past 10 years (or prepared to forget them):
<100000

People among the above prepared to shell out >$1000 for running what is
(and will be for quite some time ) a pure hobby OS without (enough) SW:
<2000

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@seer
Yes I heard that too, and it since Germany was the biggest market by far,
It would fit in with an overall sale of ~5 million.

@restore
The C=64 was and is the best selling computer-model with around 17 million.
Amiga never ever came close to that (due to the fact that there were allready
"standard-PCs" available at reasonable price when the A500 became affordable).

@Animagic
Looking at the size of Greece, the average income of it's population, and how
uncommon computer were in the late 80s/early 90s compared today (just like
in the rest of the world), I can only doubt that...

A few numbers:
The biggest annual production was in 1991 with around 2 million A500s,
but that was only possible with a reduced price, better marketing and the fact that
this was the year when getting "free" games for the miggy turned eaasier as
getting those for C=64.

It was also the year when C=-Germany sold over 1 million, but it is also
well-known that C=-Germany were undercutting other local C='s in an attempt
to look even bigger than they were.

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Animagic wrote:
 I personally NEVER met anybody that DID NOT had an Amiga!!!
 

Geee, you don't leave your house often, do you ?  :-o  :-P

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@lempkee
Who said there were 5 million in Germany ?
It may be that so many went through C=-Germany, but that doesn't mean that all
of them were actually sold in Germany .....

If we take 7 million I would come up with this:

Germany : 3 Mio
UK: 1.5-2 Mio
Scandinavia: 0.5 Mio
Benelux/France : 1Mio
Southern europe: 0.5-1Mio
Eastern europe (after 1990): 100k (not counting 2nd hand).
US/Canada : 200k (mainly Ax00-models)
Africa/Australia/.... :not worth a mention

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@jeffimix

You most be kidding .....

I mean sure those Bread-ovens were nice and powerfull (and maybe even are),
but they were also extremly expensive, only suitable for real pros when they were still
sold new.

Doubt they ever sold more than 10k, and surely nowhere near 6-figure numbers...

And Amigas weren't really popular over their outside the pro-video-sector.

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@Van_M

Did I really mention goats and cows
An A500 did cost 1400DM when it came out, and dropped to 800 by the time
I bought mine (91). Now back in those days computers in general and especially
Amigas where mainly bought by young adults or as presents for kids, 2 market
that aren't ,likely to buy overexpensive items.

It is also a fact that the avarage income in Greece was and is significantly lower
than those in middle-europe.

Nothing more and nothing less was what I wrote ....

@itix
Atleast the A1200 still sold very good in early 94, and I still can't do more than grin
at the insane price I got for mine when I sold it that summer.
Escom also build ~200000 A1200, but it is quite unclear how many of those were
ever sold.

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@amigakid

Oh no, come one ... we have started to let the airout of these numebers and *plop*
you start again with the inflation ?

C=_A1200 <200000
AT_A1200 220000 with an unknown number never sold.

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@amigakid
I did my research ....., no do yours ;-)