Guesses on amount of people related to amiga.(this includes all ages and all countries)

[DanDude]

~1 person owning 13 Amigas in his home

(1 being converted to a VT flyer workstation with LAN)

(1 being used for internet via LAN)

(my brother using one as an overlay graphics system)

(another using as a BIG countdown clock using displays that use the serial port)

(others to be named in use whenever possible)

donated a 2000 PSU to a friend of mine, he really needs a hard drive in his 2000.

[mikey2001]

Did Commodore ever produce spare motherboards? If so, would these count to the final total?  :-?  :huh:

[huronking]

I do know that C= sold spare motherboards for the
C=64... But they were refurbs even though they were
supposed to be new. (You could spot the replaced ICs and newer solder work). You would think that was because of the returns from K-Mart and such
were significant for that market. I'll bet the same held true for the A500, but probably not the 1k,2k,3k,4k. C= wasnt around long enough after the
1200 and 600 for that to have likely been the case.

[bhoggett]

HopperJF wrote:
in an amiga format magazine i read commodore celebrating 1 MILLION users in the UK.
this was also dated in 1992!!! when the amiga still had a lot of life left in it

Yep, that fits in with the 1.5 million to 2 million maximum figure for the UK overall (most likely closer to 1.5 than 2)

Add that to the confirmed figures Peter Kittel posted for Commodore Germany, and bearing in mind that these were the biggest Amiga markets bar none, and even the 7 million figure for world-wide sales is looking optimistic.

[Desolator]

Hmm, Sweden couldn't have only 200.000 Amiga users.. according to one of the Datormagazinet newspaper we were one of the leading countries in Europe buying Amiga computers.. it was everywhere, even in most schools one way or the other..  :-D

[dammy]

by minator on 2004/1/4 17:07:30

I think 20 million is a pretty fair estimate.

From the numbers I remember Germany and the UK had 5 million *each*. Germany was the biggest for a long time but I remember the UK did eventually overtake them.

Back several years ago, Dr Peter K wrote on the TeamONE ML that there was just over 7 million Amigas sold world wide.   My search engine is down right now, else I would give you the exact numbers he gave us.

Dammy

[amigakid]

ok since this subject is still up here we go the a-500 sold over 5 million units in its time, the a1200 was near 2 million.  not sure on what the other models sold tho.  also since the c=64 came up too it is still the biggest selling computer (one model) ever on record.  oh yeah aafes did move a lot of units, i worked for a company called the kealy co. in late 80s-early nineties and one thing we handled besides norelco and such was amiga comps.  Not sure on total amounts but i know there were alot (especially a-2k models) sold at bases in us and overseas.  now can we move on to another topic like how a-inc can get back into the comp scene:)

[Kronos]

@amigakid

Oh no, come one ... we have started to let the airout of these numebers and *plop*
you start again with the inflation ?

C=_A1200 <200000
AT_A1200 220000 with an unknown number never sold.

[amigakid]

talking worldwide man, do the research, besides about 2mill for a1200 is not a lot compared to what comps sell total each year

[jeffimix]

I think some people are forgetting that, yes, the C64 sold the most of any computer ever, as a single model. Amiga 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 500, 500+, 600, 1200, CDTV, CD32 are all DIFFERENT models.

[mikey2001]

Does anyone know how other systems fair today in terms of sales (Xbox, PS2, GameCube, Mega Drive, SNES etc). Is there a website someone could point me in the direction of that has these figures? Im just curious thats all....  :-?  :huh:

[HopperJF]

in terms of sales around a year ago in the uk the xbox was looking to be the next dreamcast, and now it is competing well with ps2. i hate to say ti but with their next console m$ could win over sony's 8 year console dominance

[itix]

Doesnt matter. High end models like A1000, A3000 and A4000 were never
sold in great quantities. A500+/A600/CDTV were failures, CD32 had
potential, but A500 was their only Amiga model sold in millions.

[Tigger]

mikey2001 wrote:
Did Commodore ever produce spare motherboards? If so, would these count to the final total?  :-?  :huh:

Yes they did, I bought 5000 or so, there is a possibility that Taberate bought more then that, though they were buying 2000 motherboards and I was buying 500+'s.  
       -Tig

[Kronos]

@amigakid
I did my research ....., no do yours ;-)

[Hammer]

Africa/Australia/.... :not worth a mention

Australia/New Zealand (and Oceania region) was a good market for Amigas (so is Commodore branded X86 PCs).
I recall, TAFE** (tertiary level*) has some courses (probably part of Multimedia courses) centred around Amiga/Scala back then.  

**TAFE is a State government funded colleges with framework compatible with Aussie Universities (Federal funded).  
*Eduction Institution after high-school (secondary level).