Common amiga knowledge that's wrong

[ElPolloDiabl]

Yes, but once people saw the Amiga market was shrinking they weren't going to invest any more money into there, hastening it's downfall.
People usually want to invest their money in the most powerful system they can get. The the Wintel box could provide and the speed race was fueled by AMD and Cyrix providing competing CPU's.

The sheeple who constantly upgrade to run the latest Windows are likely MS fanatics. Now that we've hit a performance ceiling you'll see a lot of 'cleaning house'.

While Escom was still kicking we got the developers to release a couple of titles aimed at a minimum 030 A1200. Had we not been starved after Escom went bankrupt there may still be a small commercial software industry for us (Productivity and games).

[ElPolloDiabl]

It's not 3D that ruined their creativity, it's all the buyouts and takeovers. They can't make challenging games because occasional gamers will not buy the game. They make them mouse driven so people without a joystick can play.

Take an RTS if you play online both sides build up a small army and rush each other. The game lasts less then 2 minutes. There is no variation to this type of play. The only stand out to this Starcraft, it was designed a lot better and you can get long games happening.

More and more effort is put into 'looks'. I'm sure it impresses the execs who control the budget. You simply won't get the same quality of games nowadays unless it is done by a small developer.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I like Team fortress.

[ElPolloDiabl]

But, do you remember going into the computer store and the walls were chock full of games, mostly Amiga games. Nowadays half the shelf space is for console accessories and the games offerings are limited to new releases or budget re-releases of the big titles.
I miss the good ol days.

[ElPolloDiabl]

All the old Commodore 64 and A500 users either went for a console or a PC, that was the games market gone. The one's who stayed were interested in the productivity side of the Amiga. We then had the handful of games the PC users were previously accustomed too.
I'm thinking that most people buying computers were in their teens or twenties and games would have been the deciding factor.
I was really impressed by the CD32, too bad they didn't put more effort into it.