I wonder what it felt like for Japanese to stab Nintendo in the back when the PS came out?

[happydolphin]

The N64 had a lot of exclusive games that Americans wanted, but the Japanese didn't. (in general) Games that were loved in all regions sold well in all regions. Vgchartz is being a bitch at loading the games totals page so I'll go on a limb and say that Mario64, Zelda OoT and games like Paper Mario sold proportionately in japan, but most rare games are high in US/Europe.

Also, Sony is a huge japanese company, and most important 3rd parties at the time were Japanese. The biggest IPs at the time were japanese so seeing 3rd parties migrate to the PSX (for good reason) also led to this phenomenon. But it's an interesting point you raise nontheless, that Japan was much less receptive to the N64 than america was.

Here, this is kinda interesting:

Pos	Game	Platform	North America	Europe	Japan	Japan to US	Japan to EU
1	Super Mario 64	N64	6.91	2.85	1.91	0.28	0.67
2	Mario Kart 64	N64	5.55	1.94	2.23	0.40	1.15
3	GoldenEye 007	N64	5.8	2.01	0.13	0.02	0.06
4	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	N64	4.1	1.89	1.45	0.35	0.77
5	Super Smash Bros.	N64	2.95	0.6	1.97	0.67	3.28
6	Pokémon Stadium	N64	3.18	1.24	0.94	0.30	0.76
7	Donkey Kong 64	N64	3.33	0.79	1.09	0.33	1.38
8	Diddy Kong Racing	N64	2.91	0.99	0.89	0.31	0.90
9	Star Fox 64	N64	2.78	0.58	0.64	0.23	1.10
10	Banjo-Kazooie	N64	1.87	1.13	0.55	0.29	0.49
11	Pokémon Snap	N64	2.23	0.68	0.66	0.30	0.97
12	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask	N64	1.9	0.67	0.73	0.38	1.09
13	Star Wars Episode I Racer	N64	2.31	0.62	0.14	0.06	0.23
14	Wave Race 64	N64	1.98	0.58	0.34	0.17	0.59
15	Yoshi's Story	N64	1.29	0.53	0.98	0.76	1.85
16	Pokémon Stadium 2	N64	1.02	0.36	1.13	1.11	3.14
17	Mario Party	N64	1.25	0.53	0.87	0.70	1.64
18	Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire	N64	2	0.5	0.12	0.06	0.24
19	Perfect Dark	N64	1.55	0.75	0.16	0.10	0.21
20	Mario Party 2	N64	1.28	0.14	1.08	0.84	7.71