Soundwave said:
Turkish said:
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.
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.
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The chart I've shown disproves that. Playstation was a mediocre selling console prior to late 1997, whereas the N64 had record breaking sales in 1996.
N64's first year in the US might actually be the most impressive ever, even above PS2/PS4/Wii it's in the same ballpark as those three but with far fewer games and it did at a time when the industry was smaller.
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What does it disprove? Is this really a globally in America meme? You're only showing American sales. PS1 sold nearly 20M units worldwide in N64s first full year, nearly 22M units the year after that, it had its strongest years. N64 didn't affect PS1 at all.
The N64 was a near Wii U level bomba everywhere but America.
