Has there ever been a worse time to be a Nintendo fan?

[Aquamarine]

NightDragon83 said:
LOL @ '95 being a terrible year for the SNES. Aside from the obvious (Yoshi's Island and DKC2, some of the greatest games not only on the SNES but of all time), the SNES had a TON of big releases that year, many of which were *gasp* THIRD PARTY TITLES!!! I know, shocking to think that at one time nearly all the big third party titles out there were on the SNES.

The SNES started to wane a bit in '96 due to the Saturn and PS1 already out and the N64 on the horizon, but '96 was still a banner year for Nintendo with the likes of Super Mario RPG and DKC3 on the SNES, along with the release of the N64 and games like Mario 64, Wave Race and Pilotwings.

What about the mediocre-at-best year for the Game Boy, the horrible failure that was the Virtual Boy with its shitty lineup, the uncertainty surrounding Nintendo 64 getting randomly delayed into 1996, the instant success of the PS1 overshadowing the 6-year-old SNES, etc.

You're letting the nostalgia of a few incredible, classic SNES releases overshadow the overall period of mediocrity and uncertainty that Nintendo fans were in during that time. As an example, look at Nintendo the company which had unprecedently low sales at the time, both in the American market via NPD and consolidated as a company with only 354 billion JPY net sales.