EA Blames its Success on its Amiga Failures!

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Nah, this is just a bit of revisionist history... Sneaking in a bit of truth, but ultimately trying to make the rather boring tale of a software company sound interesting, the just struggle against all the odds etc...

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Seems a lot of people misunderstood this article.
By "bad" theyre talking about sales, not the quality of software.
Both the Amiga, and 3do while not money makers for them did end up as good lessons in producing software for new eras/standards in technology.

It's hard to take the quote any other way, but you are right there maybe a large context where terrible is referring to sales rather than the software (which is currently implied by the quote).