Well the Akiko was a 160 pin chip with 37,000 gates which at the time was a decent amount of capability and seems to have been marketed as enhancing the chunky to bitplane performance and given the other hardware on the board it was a big help but I think it should really be pointed out that it really did a lot to help with DMA and serial parallel data streaming which helped reduced the load on the cpu and CIA as they were incorporated into the Akiko as well, so it probably also contributed to cost reduction. Ok, so it was great for the platform with Kickstart 3.1 at the time but an Amiga with an 040 or better and just a few enhancements can probably equal or better the performance. I must admit though I have always wanted to compare side by side the disk based and CD32 versions of Wing Commander for the Amiga.
