It was some good number, but you're forgetting one very important point.
Jeri didn't build a computer. She built a way to play all your old favorite C64 games in a joystick form.
Unless that machine is comparable to what is currently available in the PC and/or Mac world both on a price and performance level, then I'm afraid you'd be in for a bit of disappointment.
Most people cannot fathom paying $2k (or even 1k)+ for a desktop machine with an unsupported OS that runs slower than their $399 laptop from Dell. Dedicated hobbyists, sure, but they're not "normal" where the average computer buyer is concerned.
Build the Amiga on a joystick, add in the top 50 games and/or a way to import them off of SD memory card and yeah, it'd sell a few hundred thousand at best, but that's still not enough, because it's sales/impact would be a short-lived event and there's not much to follow that up with...
Everyone these days wants real computers, or wants popular and expandable game consoles (XBox PS3, Wii, etc) but no one wants an underpowered, overpriced desktop solution with zero software support.
Wayne
I think OS4 'could' become a reasonably successful OS. Obviously they need some capital injection, an end to the legal BS, cheaper hw and a respected company at the helm but it is not beyond the realm of possibility. You can also get a snowball effect happening, now that they are selling OS4 HW and you can get the SDK, more developers will bring stuff to the table (and fix things up) which will persuade more people (realistically just ex-Amiga fans at the moment) that it's worth joining in the fun. If things keep moving forward you might even be able to use your OS4 machine as you only computer one day
You've also got something like the MiniMig. I believe there is a good market for a cheap multi-FPGA implementation of a classic AGA+ chipset, esp if it was packaged and marketed properly by the respected parent company I mentioned earlier. You could not only sell it as a drop-in replacement for classic case users, but also in a retro-styled mini-ATX case
