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By 1990 Amstrad had realised that the home market was heading towards the 16-bit machines, one one hand, and towards the new generation of game consoles like the Sega Master System or the Nintendo Entertainment System, on the other. Therefore, just as they created the 464+/6128+ by upgrading the old machines, to compete against the ST and the Amiga, they also created a stripped-down variant called the GX4000. The GX4000 was, in essence, a 464+ motherboard in a new case, with no keyboard and with most entension ports gone - save for the cartridge port and two joypads.
As was quite easy to predict, the GX4000 was a flop, and something of a 'way too little, quite a bit late' solution that could not penetrate the stronghold stranglehold that Sega and Nintendo had in on the market at the time. As a result, the GX4000 was soon to be found selling at ridiculously low prices as dealers were trying to offload their stock. It was a shame, because if Amstrad had realised the market potential and had marketed produced this console a few years earlier, it'd could well have made for been a nice little machinesuccess. As it was, it had to suffer the same fate as the Commodore 64GS.
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