On the contrary Franko, the CD32 nearly saved Commodore. The truth is they couldn't make them quick enough, and that combined with the North American patent royalty debacle meant that there weren't enough for the public to buy.
I really love the machine.
Such a bloody shame they couldn't produce enough of them to save themselves 
True that it MAY have been the one thing that could have saved Commodore that Christmas but like you say they didn't make enough. it wasn't a case that they couldn't make enough it was down to the evil wee jobbie Medhi Ali & the other "upper managment" in the USA already syphoning off the money for themselves...
Heck Commodores UK HQ and management even begged to be allowed to take over the running of things and make enough CD32s to fill all the orders they had for stores that year but Ali had already set his plan in motion to shaft Commodore and bugger off with the cash, which he did and the rest is now history...
Though personally I still would never have bought one as I have said it cost far more to turn it into a basic A1200 than buying an A1200 itself. I suppose it was aimed at gamers really but games on the Amiga never was the reason I chose the Amiga in the first place so the CD32 was never the machine for me....
