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TWRoO,
Sure, the PS put the European market on the map. As the Amiga and other home computers died in the early 90s, the PS made console gaming #1 in Europe for the first time and actually outsold all 6 previous and contempary consoles from Nintendo and Sega combined (that is the NES, Master System, Super Nintendo, Mega Drive, N64 and Saturn).

But I was looking at Nintendo's own record here (which is the topic of the thread after all) and I said "compared to the SNES" just like people compare the PS3 to the PS2. I think it's always productive to improve on what you have and not compare yourself with others so much.

The N64 in Europe sold 78 % of what the SNES had sold (6.75/8.58). In the US the N64 sold 88 % of what the SNES had sold. The big drop was in Japan, were the N64 only sold 32 % of what the SNES had sold.

Had the N64 sold as well in Japan as in Europe (compared to the SNES) that would have been 13 million units sold and the N64 wouldn't have been considered a failure. Then maybe Yamauchi would still be president and we would never have seen something as innovative as the DS and the Wii.



Hardcore gaming is a bubble economy blown up by Microsoft's $7 $6 billion losses.