History of video games/Platforms/Commodore CDTV

History
The system was announced in Summer of 1990. At CES 1990 the Commodore 64 Games System overshadowed the Commodore CDTV at the Commodore booth.

The CDTV was launched in 1991.

The system was discontinued in 1993. Sales for the CDTV were as low as 30,000 units, with the highest sales figures given is still under 60,000 units. Despite poor sales of the CDTV, Commodore would try again with a similar concept in the Amiga CD32.

Technology
The CDTV is based on a Amiga 500 computer equipped with 1 megabyte of RAM.