Editing VIC-20 (section)

=== Decline ===

The VIC-20 was a bestseller, becoming the first computer to sell over a million. In total, 2.5 million computers were sold.<ref name=comm-ca>{{Cite web|url=https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-products/commodore-vic-20-the-first-inexpensive-home-computer/|title = Commodore VIC-20: Worlds First Computer to Sell 1 Million Units}}</ref> In summer 1982, Commodore unveiled the {{nowrap|[[Commodore 64]],}} a more advanced machine with {{nowrap|64 KB}} of RAM and considerably improved sound and graphics. Initial sales of the C64 were slow but took off in mid-1983. The VIC-20 was widely available for under $90 by that time.<ref name="lock198306">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/1983-06-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_037_1983_Jun#page/n7/mode/2up | title=Editor's Notes | work=Compute! | date=June 1983 | access-date=30 October 2013 | author=Lock, Robert | pages=6}}</ref> Commodore discontinued the VIC-20 in January 1985.<ref name="administrator@commodore.ca"/>

Perhaps the last new commercially available VIC-20 peripheral was the VIC-Talker, a [[speech synthesizer]]. ''[[Ahoy!]]'' wrote in January 1986, "Believe it or not, a new VIC accessory... We were as surprised as you."<ref name="kevelson198601">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/Ahoy_Issue_25_1986-01_Ion_International_US#page/n31/mode/2up | title=Speech Synthesizers for the Commodore Computers / Part II | work=Ahoy! | date=January 1986 | access-date=2 July 2014 | author=Kevelson, Morton | pages=32}}</ref>