N64 Was A Sales Beast And Should Have Won Its Generation

[Soundwave]

Turkish said:

Soundwave said:

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. 

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.

Of course the Playstation pulled away once it got Final Fantasy and all those third party games overwhelmed the N64, but the N64 was IMO many people's first choice, it was only when it became abundantly clear that the N64 was so badly starved for games (due to no CD drive) that people had to look elsewhere. 

Never should have happened in the first place IMO. I can understand junking the Sony contract for the CD drive, but you had a perfectly good CD supplier in Philips already working for you, lol. What .... the .... heck .... were you thinking, Ninty? Oh you stupid, naive Ninty, why'd you do it. N64 should have pissed glory. ;)

I really would pay money to slap the person who made the decision to do that. It is probably after Atari rejecting Nintendo, the single dumbest decision in the history of video game business.