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Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd
I was the same stupid idea Commodore had 1990 with the C64GS. "Ok, we have a lot of C64 hardware parts lying around. What can we do with it?" They had no clue at all. And it was released against the advice of the tech department from Commodore. A planned CD32 launch in the USA? After 1990 not a single person cared about the Amiga for gaming there. Obviously nobody told them that too.
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As the story has been told to me, the CD32 was the last roll of the dice. Commodore was in deep trouble and they rushed out the CD32 in an attempt to make enough money to keep open the door.
Had the US launch gone through and the patent lawsuit not been lost they might have been able to keep the doors open another year. But this is my rephrasing what my memory tells me some ex-Commodore (primarily Dave Haynie) people said at an Amiga meeting I attended years after the fact, so I might be wrong here.