N64 Was A Sales Beast And Should Have Won Its Generation

[SegataSanshiro]

Mr Puggsly said:

SegataSanshiro said:
Saturn has 600 games and most of them fantastic. In terms of library it was a far better system than N64 and deserved better sales but Sega of Japan turning down SEGA of America's deal to partner with Sony backfired badly. (PS1 used the specs SOA wanted). N64 is a good console no doubt with some absolute classics. Thing is Had only about 200 games and was severely lacking in Fighting games,RPGs and shmups which at the time were huge. Saturn and PS1 kinda had everything but PS1 had more than Saturn and bigger named like Final Fantasy and Metal Gear plus the better ports of Tomb Raider,CSOTN and Resident Evil. Honestly N64 I do like it a lot but it's in 3rd place for library that gen.

I'm a fan of the Saturn as well... but most of its games were fantastic? No way.

I felt N64 was unique, the games it excelled at were very different than its competitors. Its hard to convince fans of Goldeneye, Mario 64, Smash Bros, Zelda, Rare games, that the Saturn has the superior library. I personally spent hundreds of hours with those THQ werstling games on N64.

But for the types of games you and I enjoy, Saturn is much more appealing and quantity on top of that. Saturn also has a lot of games that aged well.

Most the games are great on SS just they pretty much were released only in Japan. Just about every fighting game in 2D is better on SS and it has them in spades. SS was THE console to own for shmups as it is full of them and not seen a bad one. RPG's again I even say has enough quality RPGs to be on par with PS1 but again mainly only in Japan. Not to mention outside of a Neo Geo CD was the place to get Neo Geo games at that time.