You have to remember that the N64 was a miniturized silicon graphics workstation, those who didint put time into devolpment of their titles really screwed the pooch. And that was just about 'every' 3rd party putting out games on the N64.
1st/2nd party did really well because well... Nintendo knew how to use thier hardware, and helped the second partys polish there games.
Its basically the same thing going down the GC/Wii library.
Even though Nintendo simplified development with both those consoles, its the ones who spend the most time on the games who seem to get the value for the buck.







