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From: wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne C Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Quarterly results
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Date: 2 Feb 90 23:52:06 GMT
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In article <811@cs.nps.navy.mil>, dixon@cs.nps.navy.mil (Roger Dixon) writes:
> >Year Dec 31		1989		1988
> >----------------------------------------------------
> >Sales..........		$310,700,000	$349,000,000
>     Does anyone out there have what this translates to in units sold by
> type and region?

I'll make a guess.  Since the Amiga counts for over 50% of the buiness, let's
say 55%.  Plus 500's probably outsell other Amiga systems 2 to 1 or better.
Now remember that some things like external drives, hard disks, some
software must be in that figure too.  I venture to guess that Commodore
sells take in maybe $750 per average Amiga system sold.  So my guess
would say:

    $310,700,000 * .55 / $750 = 227846 Amiga systems this last quarter.

Last quarter is by far the best for the year most likely so that would imply 
that around 500,000 Amiga systems are being sold per year.  That is a lot
better that I expected.  Still some of those may be replacements, and there
are bound to be other factors, and my numbers are just guesses.  So I would
say the 500,000 has to be the top possible number.  Now if Europe is outselling
the states 3 to 1 that would say:

   125,000 Amigas per year in the state
   375,000 Amigas per year outside the states.

The US number of a 125,000 a year seems reasonable from what data I hear.
The outside of the states number is really hard for me to judge.  

                                       Wayne Knapp