Miyamotoo said:
Nothing cant be compared to Wii Sports, we talking about game that sold 83m and that brought to gaming totally different audience for 1st time ever.
Difference is that Switch is also great and appealing like hardware, same couldn't be said for N64. |
N64 was very appealling hardware, it just was handicapped by the stupid cartridge decision, which for 1996 was devastating to it's chances (see my other thread on this). N64 sold amazing it's first year for example, almost as well as the Wii and PS2 in the US. With far fewer games in a smaller market. People don't realize that.
Switch lives in era where cartridge constraints aren't nearly as deadly.
It's like having measles today, you're not going to die from it but a few decades ago ... sayonara.
Today you can have a 16GB cartridge, which is a good size for relatively cheap. In the N64 days even a dinky little 8MB cartridge cost like $30 for the manufacturer, lol. And there was no digital storage for things like expansion data or digital download either.
I get the point you were trying to make, but I feel I should point that out. I feel like the N64 could've sold 100 million units itself had it not been crippled by Nintendo's baffling format decision, it had everything else going for it.
Actually Switch does remind me a bit of the N64, only it won't be nearly as crippled as the N64 was because the format issue is not nearly as big of a deal these days.
If Nintendo has access to cartridge tech that could store even 500MB for like $3-$4 ... N64 would've killed it that gen.
