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Re: Amiga total Worldwide sales figures??
« on: April 08, 2004, 03:21:52 PM »
@odin

While 4 millions sound correct, 1 million A500 do not ....

C=-Germany sold ~1 millon A500s in 1991, but that was by far their best year, and lots of those actually went into shops outside of Germany.

Combined sales of non-A500-Amigas was under 400k (including 200k A1200s) with C=, followed up by a handfull of A4000T and 200k A1200s (not all produced were sold) by Escom.
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Re: Amiga total Worldwide sales figures??
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2004, 03:55:16 PM »
@Tigger
Finally came around to recheck "my"  source.

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Absatzzahlen Commodore Deutschland bis 31.12.93
 (herausgegeben von der Marketing-Abteilung Commodore Frankfurt)
 Amiga CD32      25.000
Amiga CDTV      25.800
Amiga 500    1.081.000
Amiga 500+      79.500
Amiga 600      193.000
Amiga 1000      27.500
Amiga 1200      95.500
Amiga 2000     124.500
Amiga 3000       8.300
Amiga 4000/030   7.500
Amiga 4000/040   3.800


Well, o.k.,  it is only for Germany, but since that was their biggest market.

What is clear is that they sold about 1 A2000 for every 10 A500, and that A3000/4000 were very very rare, something that still reflects on the 2nd hand market today. A2000s, evenso older are still cheap and plentifull, while A3000/4000 are rather hard any expensive to get.

Now, it may be that big-box-Amigas sold much better in the US, but hardly 10 times as much as in Germany, as it would need to reach your 100k per model.

Even todays community shows that central-european A3/4k-owners still outnumber US-Amiga-owners (and are in turn outnumbered by central-european and UK-based A1200-owners).
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else