N64 Was A Sales Beast And Should Have Won Its Generation

[d21lewis]

Turkish said:

Soundwave said:

Actually N64 even starved of games still sold virtually the same as the SNES did in North America and Europe. The only difference was basically Japan where losing Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest sadly neutered the system there. 

Never should have happened. FF7/8/9 and Dragon Quest VII should have been N64 exclusives. Now the odds are much more even, and I like Nintendo's chances against Sony in that scenario. Sony needed virtually a monopoly on all major third party games to win that generation, if N64 has a CD drive first of all I don't think companies that were historically close to Nintendo like Squaresoft and Enix would've left as there would be little reason to do so. 

No way IMO Sony would have been able to compete against the combined might of Mario 64, GoldenEye, Zelda: OoT, and Final Fantasy VII ... no way. And I think other Playstation exclusives like Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 1/2/3 would've gone multi-plat. Tekken and maybe Tomb Raider would've stayed for Sony (maybe). 

People always think N64 lost because it didn't have a CD drive, they're WRONG. As I stated earlier N64 came in 1996, PS1 and Saturn in 1994. It was too late in the market. Nintendo was still riding off its Snes sales in 1994. If anything, Saturn deserved FF7-9 and DQ to be multiplats with PS1, and it would have if it wasn't so hard to program for. Those games would never have become exclusive to Nintendo with a very easy system like PS1 on the market. No one would choose Nintendo with their anti 3rd party practices even if they made a system on the level of PS1, they were very happy with Sony.

Seriously it sounds like you dont know why Nintendo lost and blame everything on the lack of CD Drive which is revisionism at its worst.

It only sold like 6 million in Europe despite being marketed heavily by Nintendo, I remember how much marketing there was for the system, it was as prominent as the PS1 in stores yet it only ended up with 5-6 million.

The gen should've gone PS1>Saturn>N64, Saturn deserved to sell more than the N64.

 

Turkish said:

Soundwave said:

Actually N64 even starved of games still sold virtually the same as the SNES did in North America and Europe. The only difference was basically Japan where losing Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest sadly neutered the system there. 

Never should have happened. FF7/8/9 and Dragon Quest VII should have been N64 exclusives. Now the odds are much more even, and I like Nintendo's chances against Sony in that scenario. Sony needed virtually a monopoly on all major third party games to win that generation, if N64 has a CD drive first of all I don't think companies that were historically close to Nintendo like Squaresoft and Enix would've left as there would be little reason to do so. 

No way IMO Sony would have been able to compete against the combined might of Mario 64, GoldenEye, Zelda: OoT, and Final Fantasy VII ... no way. And I think other Playstation exclusives like Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 1/2/3 would've gone multi-plat. Tekken and maybe Tomb Raider would've stayed for Sony (maybe). 

People always think N64 lost because it didn't have a CD drive, they're WRONG. As I stated earlier N64 came in 1996, PS1 and Saturn in 1994. It was too late in the market. Nintendo was still riding off its Snes sales in 1994. If anything, Saturn deserved FF7-9 and DQ to be multiplats with PS1, and it would have if it wasn't so hard to program for. Those games would never have become exclusive to Nintendo with a very easy system like PS1 on the market. No one would choose Nintendo with their anti 3rd party practices even if they made a system on the level of PS1, they were very happy with Sony.

Seriously it sounds like you dont know why Nintendo lost and blame everything on the lack of CD Drive which is revisionism at its worst.

It only sold like 6 million in Europe despite being marketed heavily by Nintendo, I remember how much marketing there was for the system, it was as prominent as the PS1 in stores yet it only ended up with 5-6 million.

The gen should've gone PS1>Saturn>N64, Saturn deserved to sell more than the N64.

You don't think CD ROM vs Cartridges didn't play a huge role? A young d21lewis who purchased Killer Instinct Gold for $80 while his neighbor bought Tekken 2 for $40 would disagree.