English Amiga Board - View Single Post - Some thoughts on why the Amiga didn't thrive

Gilbert · 23 February 2021, 22:14

The Amiga failed because Commodore bought the Amiga technology (they didn't create it) and then let most of the team go - so there was no decent follow-up. They just made money from it and put almost no money back into creating a worthy successor. The original Amiga team went on to create the Lynx, and then the 3DO.

So the next Amiga should have been Atari Lynx - but in computer form - with large no. sprites, sprite rotation/scaling and a blitter etc. But instead we got a linear update with AGA. AGA was enough of an upgrade to beat the 16 bit consoles but was in no way impressive enough for the mass-market to buy it.

23 February 2021, 22:14	#9
Gilbert Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 318	The Amiga failed because Commodore bought the Amiga technology (they didn't create it) and then let most of the team go - so there was no decent follow-up. They just made money from it and put almost no money back into creating a worthy successor. The original Amiga team went on to create the Lynx, and then the 3DO. So the next Amiga should have been Atari Lynx - but in computer form - with large no. sprites, sprite rotation/scaling and a blitter etc. But instead we got a linear update with AGA. AGA was enough of an upgrade to beat the 16 bit consoles but was in no way impressive enough for the mass-market to buy it.