| zorg1000 said: Cool chart But one thing I took from this is u cant judge a console by its first year sales. N64 was tracking only 400k behind Wii arlt this point in USA but in the long run only sold about half. |
The N64 should've sold at least 60 million LTD, when people talk droughts, there literally was nothing released for the N64 for months at a time at some points because of the cartridge format decision. I played Mario 64 pretty much for a month straight until Wave Race 64 came out.
That ruined a console that people actually were actually enthusiastic about. I think it's much harder to get people interested in a platform they're apathetic about from the get go.
I met so many people that considered an N64, but simply had to buy the Playstation instead because the difference in software releases was monstrous.
Wii was also heavily supply constrained that first year, I think everyone knows it could've sold at least 50% more easily.
The other thing I think that is obvious now in hindsight, is how important Rare was to Nintendo. They tipped the scales of a very close 16-bit war in Nintendo's favor with DKC and really saved the N64 from death in its second holiday by providing Diddy Kong Racing and especially GoldenEye. That allowed the system to keep chugging until Zelda: OoT was ready.
