Nintendo US Year 1 Console Sales (N64 vs. GCN vs. Wii vs. Wii U)

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Soundwave said:

Screamapillar said:

Soundwave said:

N64 was such a freaking beast considering it had very few games, but some really big ones.

Wii probably could've sold double what Nintendo shipped in this time frame.

I don't think people realize, the Wii U is going to have to increase its sales by like 4-5x fold just to match the GameCube's monthly rate.

At the time they really had almost no competition.  PSone was a new and untested brand/ console, and SEGA had completely fallen apart after the CD and the Saturn failed to penetrate western markets.  Different world back then.  The $50 drop from $199 alone would have meant huge sales spike in the fall of '97 just so even more people could get their hands on Mario 64.

I remember 1997 very well. The N64 was starting to show cracks in its armor by summer '97 because people weren't used to a Nintendo console without third party support back then (go figure). It was a bit of a shock.

The price drop for the N64 happened in March btw, so it wasn't that big of a deal by the holidays. If I remember correctly Sega had the craziest holiday bundle that year with like three free games bundled with a Saturn as a last ditch effort to save the system.

Poor, poor Sega.  I remember for Christmas in '95 my dad got us a Saturn bundled with Virtua Fighter.  A clerk at Best Buy talked him into it, telling him it was "a better machine than the Playstation".  HA! Still cracks me up to this day.  My dad was hood-winked.