Shadow1980 said:
In the U.S. it was, at least for a while. According to the NPD, it its first 15 months it sold 6,460,000 units. This makes it the third-fastest-selling console ever in the U.S. The PS2 sold 7.26M in its first 15 months, while the Wii sold about 7.65M in its first 15 months. Nothing else came close to these three until the PS4, which will almost certainly clear 6 million LTD by the end of this year. The N64 actually almost caught up with the PS1 despite being released a year later, but the N64 lost steam largely due to losing Final Fantasy, with FFVII blowing the door off the PS1. The PS1 went from having sold only 2.59 million by the end of 1996 to 7.67 million by the end. That means it sold almost twice as many units in 1997 as it did in 1995 and 1996 combined, thus making it the biggest comeback ever. Had Nintendo gone with a CD format for the N64, they would have likely held on to Final Fantasy and the PS1 would likely have completely stalled in the U.S. and the N64 would have sold a lot more than it did.
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Thanks for the stats, it's good to hear from someone who actually knows what it was like back then ... Nintendo was incredibly stupid to stick with cartridges, should have at least nixed th 64DD for a CD-drive add-on. N64 was a very successful platform, Nintendo just starved it to death with lack of software and a lot of people had no choice but to have to buy a Playstation as well.
I have zero doubt in my mind it could have outsold the SNES and maybe even the NES if it had more games.
