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The Playstation was still taking its baby steps in 1996, adoption of the PSX and Saturn early on in their life cycles was extremely slow.
The N64 sold far quicker out of the gate, but couldn't sustain the torrid pace. Actually the N64 sold faster out of the gate than any of the modern game consoles, even having a faster sell through than the Wii (it wasn't as supply restricted) in North America. It sold past 2 million in North America without any problem.
I get the feeling a lot of people here weren't even gaming or just little kids in the mid-90s, lol and are applying revisionist history.
It wasn't really until mid-1997 that I think a lot of people realized exactly what choosing cartridges over CDs meant for Nintendo and that the N64 wasn't going to have the same level of support as the NES and SNES. Most people expected that, they didn't know, up until then the idea of a Nintendo console without third party games was pretty alien.
