(I needed to perform some explicitation and sentence structure improvement, please don't take this badly. If I didn't, I would simply not understand.)
PLEASE: DO NOT MESH THIS POST WITH THE OTHERS, IT'S COMPLICATED AS IT IS. I want this resolved and I only have a measure of energy and patience. If you spaghettize this again, I'm afraid I will have no more motivation left, and be totally discouraged. Keep this post alone and don't mix it with the others, k?
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o_O.Q said:
Ok, well then. Therefore, you are making a point unrelated to mine, as i'm talking about my issue with this saying: "the n64 could be more mainstream than its rival". I'm at issue with it, since the N64's rival (in this occurrence the PS1) outsold it by a wide margin. |
I understand that the PS1 outsold the N64. What I'm asking is, who came first? Who appealed to a large audience with the tech first?
The answer is: Nintendo, with the N64.
We can't agree, since you judge it by total console sales, while I judge it by first to a reasonably vast audience (5Million+).
By your measure (total console sales comparison), we have 2 big problems:
1) Incomplete support of Dual-shock on the platform (a point still in debate).
2) It doesn't answer my SNES to GBA 16-bit metaphore, which you can find in a previous post. This was the comparison:
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SNES to GBA 16-bit metaphore: The Super Nintendo has relatively small total sales as compared to the PS2, yet it and the Genesis introduced 16-bit gaming to the masses. If another console 10 years later, also 16-bits (think GBA), managed to sell much more and also offer 16-bits, will you say the new system brought it to the masses? NO.
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