Amiga's Worst Move?

[Oli_hd]

did they have the ability to insert AGA and a 68k20 into the 600 then?

Yep, the A600 was a late machine, the reason they made it a 68000 and ECS though was that a lot of people were still buying the A500 and A500+ when the A1200 was launched.
The A500 was expensive to make, the A600 was simply aimed to cut the cost of the A500 by making it smaller.

The A1200 was a good machine when it came out, they couldnt do much more, it was an A4000 in an A500 case and it filled that role 100%.

In answer to the original question the answer for a long time was that the PC side was making a massive loss, Amiga went down without loosing any money.
That said Im not sure its correct, it just doesnt feel righ does it?

I think its more a fact that Amiga didnt push people to upgrade and as much as people hate the PC for making people change their PC when they buy a new machine there is snobbery in saying "I have the best PC, its a AMD 64Bit Venice, etc"
The Amiga never had that, no computer before the PC needed the user to upgrade to play the new game.
When the A500 got old and out of date people didnt look for a new Amiga, they looked for a new computer, they either went for the playstation games console or a PC.

PS: Amiga was a brand, Commodore was the company.
PPS: Its just sad that Commodore UK's buyout of CBM didnt go ahead, they said they had the money to cover the dept and they could restart production there and then, then the liquidators turned around and said "no, your bankrupt too" and that was that, where did that money go? Commodore UK was big, how come the dept couldnt be sorted by selling the UK/German/ all the other Commodore buildings over sea's?

[Oli_hd]

Hi Tony

Didnt the retailers compensate? I mean I bought my CDTV from Calculus and when I had a fault I talked to them, not Commodore UK.

Commodore's only customer relations seemed to be at shows or placing adverts (large adverts right outside Sega saying "to be this good would take Sage ages")

[Oli_hd]

The big blunder that I never hear stated was the huge mistake of insisting on SCSI for hard drives

Actually the A500 never had SCSI drives, that was kept for the professional Amiga's like the A2000, the A590 (Commodore's Amiga 500 harddrive) used the ST508(?, that real old standard PC's used before IDE) to keep it cheap, harddrives still cost to much though.

Even Commodore's A2000 SCSI cards had the ST508 port.. I dont know but even the A2500 may have came with an ST508.

So

Same goes for the later stuff, The A4000T had SCSI but the A1200 didnt, heck the A4000 didnt either.

That said Commodore didnt force the users to fit a harddrive until the A1200/A600 was out, which was way to late, it should have been a recommended upgrade for the A500+ and required in the A2000.