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@manossg - that's exactly how marketing works. That's how AMD sold their K5 processors introducing PR (performance rating basically understood as pentium rating) and then K6-2 and K6-III with 3DNow!
And truth to be told - at least 3DNow! had fairly wide support - mostly because popular game engines supported it so any game built upon it had a good chance of supporting it as well. And also 3dfx glide driver included 3DNow! support which gave AMD quite few frames per second once new version was installed - not enough to combat Pentium II of course but noticeable difference for all AMD users (there weren't many but most likely more % than vampire users across whole amiga community atm).
So what I'm trying to tell you - it doesn't matter if AMMX and 64bit lured ppl to buy Vampire. It has not been used in great many applications so I find no reason to assume ppl bought it for those features. Many ppl bought vampire because of performance results presented by the team (and those were pure 68k code benchmarks), integrated FPU, IDE, USB and SAGA (beta cores for A500,600/2000 users). Those were selling points. It was compact device giving most of things requiring pretty big sandwich before. And for small Amiga models were basically impossible to have.
Also titles you did mention are quite new (at least to amiga). AMMX is with us for few years already.
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