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The problem with AGA is it arrived when 386 clones with SVGA were becoming incredibly affordable. If it had arrived in early 1990 instead of late 1992, the Amiga might've had more of a chance.

Basically, Commodore should've skipped ECS entirely. ECS was essentially useless to most consumers.

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Actually, Commodore should have kept their chips up-to-date with process improvements. That means releasing a new chipset with four times the performance every three or four years. So the AGA should have arrived in 1988, and the blitter should have been four times faster as original, not just twice as fast.

The Amiga 2000 should have been delayed until 1998 to include the new AGA. Keeping the cheaper Amiga 500 on the OCS would have been fine.

I do like your alternate reality better than mine!

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