@Calen
Agreed. I doubt piracy had anything to do with it... How much piracy is going around on the PC now? Lets not even start to talk about PSX or PS2, yet those machines are very successful. But yes, this is one of those often overdebated topics...
My 2 cents, Amigas were too expensive and underpowered when the 4000 came out. Plus many people didnt even know they existed :-) Once retailers like EB and Babbages started pulling the software off the shelves here in the US, the Amiga instantly became a dead machine.
I was working at EB once (94) and I was talking to a PC guy about amigas. Dude actually said 'But they cant even multitask!' If you don't know at least THAT much about amigas, then that says a lot about how much marketing was going on.
-Thorrin
