Switch Close to Passing Sales of N64 (UPDATE: Now Passed!)

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The_Liquid_Laser said:

OTBWY said:

It was a profitable console and it was making enough money right with the Pokemon craze. So it did do well enough just not PS1 numbers. Also the system had some of the most influential and gamechaning titles then. Its influences can still be seen today.

Yeah, but everything you just said can also be applied to the Wii U.  This description basically paints the N64 as a niche console with some very vocal fans.  If that is your assertion, then I can agree with that.  N64 is a lot like the Dreamcast or the Wii U.

Not even close. 33 million in the 90s is a significantly bigger deal than selling 13.5 million in the 2010s because of the size of the markets at time. N64 had close to 25% marketshare while Wii U is under 10%.

As for influential software, games like Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye set the trend for those genres going forward and you can still see their influences 20+ years later. Wii U had so really high quality games but high quality and influential are not the same thing.

One other thing to consider is that most of the N64 love comes from America where N64 actually did pretty well and was competitive with PS1 for a few years.