Indeed, just as Microsoft had anticipated, although the AmigaOS launch looked like a perfect fusion of art, entertainment, and business, and received rave reviews in the newspapers, its sales were not impressive. It topped the best-selling business software charts only in the first week after release before quickly declining, whereas the subsequent release of Windows 3.0 garnered countless positive reviews. Despite its high price tag of $149.95, it sold more than 120,000 copies in the first week.
Both competitors rushed to release their new products at this juncture largely because of Gorbachev. The Soviet leader arrived in the United States on June 1st for a visit, and many American entrepreneurs hoped that their products could be gifted to the pro-Western Soviet friend to take back home by the President.