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Re: How did the Amiga fare in Australia?
« on: November 05, 2010, 04:48:18 AM »
In its heyday it shared almost the same amount of retail space as the PC for a while.  I remember going to large chains and having two or three 6x6" shelves full of software. The PCs always had more hardware on offer as "Amiga" here in Aus meant almost exclusively the A500.  There were smaller stores that sold other models but my experience is that seeing big box Amigas in retail chains was rare.  

AGA didnt fare well here, the Amiga was already a deminishing platform when it appeared.  I remember seeing  A1200s in one large retailer but they were relegated to the dingy corner while PCs dominated the well lit areas.  Later, I saw the A1200 demo model for sale for 1/4 of retail price and almost bought it. They sold off all the Amiga software over a couple of weeks and didnt restock.

The CD32 was all but non-existant, only one of the smaller retailers stocked it for a few months, before the PS1 pushed it off the shelf for good.

Most of the Amiga centric mags either folded or rebranded to other platforms within months of C= going under.

My memory is that the Amiga userbase in Aus was probably something like 90%+ A500s, used for games. When other things came along like the 386,  Megadrive(Genesis) and Snes they absorbed this 90%.  Leaving only the minority of big box Amiga users to continue.

I'd be surprised if the Amiga userbase got above 1/2 a million here?  The C64 by comparison was everywhere probably in the millions, everyone I knew owned one.
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