Editing Amiga 500 (section)

== Reception and sales ==
The Amiga 500 was the best-selling model in the Amiga family of computers. The German computer magazine ''[[Chip (magazine)|Chip]]'' awarded the model the annual "Home Computer of the Year" title three consecutive times.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/hoovershandbooko00hoov_4|url-access=registration|title=Hoover's Handbook of American Business 1993|last1=Hoover|first1=Gary|last2=Campbell|first2=Alta|publisher=The Reference Press|date=November 19, 2021|page=207|isbn=978-1-878753-03-8}}</ref> At the [[European Computer Trade Show]] 1991, it also won the Leisure Award for the similar "Home Computer of the Year" title.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88LaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Amiga+500%22+%22computer+of+the+year%22|title=European Computer Leisure Awards 1991|magazine=[[Compute!]]|date=September 1991|access-date=November 19, 2021|volume=13|issue=9|page=6}}</ref> 

Owing to the inexpensive cost of the Amiga 500 in then price-sensitive Europe, sales of the Amiga family of computers were strongest there, constituting 85 percent of Commodore's total sales in the fourth quarter of 1990. The Amiga 500 was widely perceived as a gaming machine and the Amiga 2000 a computer for artists and hobbyists.{{Sfn|Maher|2018|pp=178–180}} 

It has been claimed<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-23-the-amiga-is-30-years-old-today|title=The Amiga is 30 years old today|last=Yin-Poole|first=Wesley|work=[[Eurogamer]]|date=July 23, 2015|access-date=November 19, 2021|archive-date=November 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119014802/https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-23-the-amiga-is-30-years-old-today|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://247wallst.com/special-report/2021/09/16/cost-of-a-computer-every-year-since-1970/|title=Cost of a Computer Every Year Since 1970|last=Comen|first=Evan|work=24/7 Wall St.|date=September 16, 2021|access-date=November 19, 2021|archive-date=November 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119014803/https://247wallst.com/special-report/2021/09/16/cost-of-a-computer-every-year-since-1970/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6u16DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA139|title=Introduction to the History of Computing: A Computing History Primer|last=O'Regan|first=Gerard|series=Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media]]|date=2016|access-date=November 19, 2021|page=139|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-33138-6|isbn=978-3-319-331386|s2cid=24592919 }}</ref> that Commodore sold as many as six million units worldwide. However, Commodore UK refuted that figure and said that the entire Amiga line sold between four and five million computers.<ref name="IM-OG">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6saEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT57|title=Impossible Mission I & II - The Official Guide|last=Weßling|first=Holger|publisher=Acorn Books|date=2020|access-date=November 19, 2021|page=57|isbn=9781789824575}}</ref> Indeed, ''[[Ars Technica]]'' provides a year-by-year graph of the sales of all Amiga computers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-10-the-downfall-of-commodore/|title=A history of the Amiga, part 10: The downfall of Commodore|last=Reimer|first=Jeremy|work=[[Ars Technica]]|date=January 22, 2017|access-date=November 19, 2021|archive-date=August 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810034527/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-10-the-downfall-of-commodore/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The machine is reported to have sold 1,160,500 units in Germany (including Amiga 500 Plus sales).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bergseth |first=M. |date=November 25, 2014 |title=AMIGA SOLD IN UNITS BY COMMODORE IN GERMANY REVEALED |url=https://distrita.com/amiga-sold-in-units-by-commodore-in-germany-revealed/ |website=Distrita - Where to Go |access-date=May 15, 2023 |archive-date=July 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713160208/https://distrita.com/amiga-sold-in-units-by-commodore-in-germany-revealed/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>