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Ugh..
How did PCs beat out the Amiga, Mac and ST with nonsense like that?
Because I could play the same copies of the same games on my Tandy 1000, the IBM PCs at school, and my friend's Packard Bell. Standardized architecture was, and still is, a huge draw.
Open and documented APIs.
I think you can ultimately blame Compaq. It was the first "pc clone" that showed the market that a PC not from expensive IBM was viable. After that even if you weren't buying a Compaq your own generic clone was "good enough". So You could access hardware and software built for a $4000 8088 IBM PC with your $1200 clone.
Amiga never was commodity hardware. It was always expensive. It didn't get cheap enough fast enough. Amiga 500 came too late.
Volume
What you did there, I see it.
They couldn't play Doom (until much later). Even to this day, the Amiga ports are lackluster. Hardware wasn't designed for that kind of game.
Phoenix BIOS/The BIOS Wars
They could play Wolfenstein and Doom...