Why did commodore went under?

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Yes, Amiga jumped out in front and then just sat there waiting for the world to catch up and pass them.  Commodore expected to get money from it's products forever without putting any money back in to improve them.

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On the other hand there was very little Commodore could have done to survive.  Even if they took the money spent on beer and chips and put it into the Amiga it's hard to see them surviving.  The 90's were converging on the PC.  Custom chips on the motherboard were giving way to generic graphics cards which could be replaced.  Window 95 was the final nail in the coffin.  I remember an Amiga user's group meeting on the Windows 95 release day, the speaker was trashing Windows 95 right and left, and I knew the sun had set on C= and the Amiga.

But as I said, even though Commodore management was thoroughly incompetent it made no difference, there was no winning move.

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Comes down to one thing...the C64GS, or what they should have done with the C64 more precisely. Had they used the talented MOS Technology engineers to create a portable C64 with an option for a monochrome or colour machine to purchase in shops around 1990 they would be alive and well right now trust me.

Gameboy is a disgusting screened machine, sound is tinny even with £100 headphones used with it so pure dirt, graphics are not much better compared to C64 games (play Power Drift on C64 and compare it to the NES crap that looks like Pole Position on a VIC-20 FFS)

And yet if Nintendo could sell such a horrid machine with a screen that makes the games UNPLAYABLE due to vomit inducing pale green/yellow on dark grey super blur-o-vision screen that INSTANTLY BLURS ALL MOVEMENT ON SCREEN (Galaxian is a real joke cartridge for GB, you might as well disconnect the screen for all the good it does when playing that game!). It sold on the quality of the games, however as C64 absolutely rips GB a new one in every genre I'm sorry but even C= couldn't fark up such a genius machine with all the fruits of talented people who produced games on the C64 from 1982 to the early 90s.

So....they did something even worse, they never even thought of it....instead they spent millions re-tooling for high MBit carts for the C64GS and building a C64 console which can't use 99% of the amazing C64 software catalogue it had built up in the thousands since 1982.

If anyone ever read the Computer and Video Games magazine console guide take on the situation you would know what I am talking about. In summer 1990 C+VG when reviewing SNES/Megadrive/PC Engine/GX4000/NEOGEO/Gameboy/Gamegear/Lynx etc also reviewed the C64GS (Commodore 64 console with no keyboard but suspiciously the same height width and depth as Commodore 64 computer case) they said that they wouldn't recommend this machine BUT they did tell people to go and buy a C64 instead and play 100s and 100s of excellent games. Say what you want about me but when it comes to computer games expertise only one magazine in the world ever had the right to give an opinion and that was UKs CVG magazine, they were there when home computer/console gaming was born and they lasted right to the end of the last console generation and DirectX9 XP PC games. Commodore did nothing with their most envied possession, the Commodore 64 back catalogue of games. The C64 has more excellent games than EVERY console or computer produced from the start to the current day. Because Amiga games were such badly programmed sh1t like Outrun or Afterburner and only a handful of Shadow of the Beast quality games were made it doesn't even come close to matching the C64 experience.

1982 technology home computer being recommended to people reading reviews of Sega/Nintendo 16bit game consoles? Would EDGE tell you to go out and buy an Atari Jaguar instead of an Xbox 360? That's the technological gap we are talking here, the games really were that good according to the king of games magazines from 1980 to this century!

So there you have it, not slitting medhi ali's throat on his second day of employment at Commodore and not making a C64 gameboy rip-off = FAIL! :roflmao:

(medhi ali doesn't deserve capital letters on his name)