Soundwave said:
Well Saturn had 300 other things wrong with it, it might be the worst handled major system roll out in gaming history (yes, even worse than Wii U). N64 was primarily actually a very good system, that was crippled at birth by a very stupid format choice. It would've sold more than the SNES easily and probably more than the NES too had it had the CD format at a minimum too. At a max, I think it would've just won that generation outright. |
The Nintendo 64 was an a amazing system and gave us some of the best games of all time, certainly some of my favorite games.
It did have some *massive* caveats though.
For one, it's hardware wasn't as easy as the Playstation to build games for and due to various hardware nuances, texturing would tend to look blurry (Which was preferable over the PS1's blocky texturing for allot of people).
We didn't really see what the 64 was capable of graphically untill Perfect Dark in my opinion, it was a league ahead of most PS1 games.
It's controller had a critical design flaw that would result in the control stick becoming limp and relied on a ton of accessories for various features (Rumble, Saving, Transfer Pak). - Which also added to the weight and bulk of the controller.
Sony would eventually one-up the 64 controller with the dual-shock, which would provide even better controls.
I think with the Gamecube, Nintendo had it's best controller design in my opinion. The Wii and Wii U don't live up to it in my opinion.
There were many reasons for the decline of the 64 verses SNES, CD played a part in that, but wasn't the only reason, it was still an amazing device, makes you wonder what it could have been if it could attract more 3rd party's though.
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