They cost a fair share, and Commodore didn't really keep the required momentum after the A1000/500/2000, but most advanced computers of their time cost a bit of money. It's hard to say they didn't make a sizable dent, when both Commodore and Atari held almost the entire European 16/32-bit home computer market of the second half of the 80s and the early 90s. Additionally, both had tons of productivity software next to their massive game libraries.
