N64 Was A Sales Beast And Should Have Won Its Generation

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BuckStud said:

Turkish said:

LMAO

You're joking right? Is this another "globally in the US" memes?

It only resonated with customers in America, America isn't the world.

PS1 rightly won its generation, both in terms of furthering the industry forward with CDs, crazy azz goofy games and its library in general which is regarded as top 3 best console libraries with Snes and PS2. N64 has only a select few noteworthy games and came 1.5 years too late in the market.

Even Saturn has a better library and it deserves more sales than the N64. Both Saturn and PS1 games hold up better than N64 games with its blurry, smear imposed bilinear texture filtered games.

I'm not sure how old you were during the N64 time, but your memory is a little off.  While the PS1 and Saturn had many good games, most of them paled considerably to the great games on the N64.  Other than storage capacity, the N64 was superior in every way to either of those.  Sony did so well simply because of their less than ethical marketing of the PlayStation line.  They were able to get into stores that didn't sell video games prior like Circuit City by telling them that they would only be allowed to carry their other products if they sold the PlayStation in their stores.  Sony TV's were still popular back then, so that got them into more stores.  Then there's the fact that Sony hired secret shoppers to go into stores and ask about their competition with video games.  I had a friend that was the store manager at Electronic Boutique and he said that it was well known in the industry that gifts were handed out randomly to sales associates that would steer customers to the PlayStation when they would ask about Sony's competition...I witnessed it more than once.  Then there were the BS rumors that would get started like the government is buying a bunch of PS2's to replace there super computers because the PS2 was more powerful and a lot cheaper. 

Sony came to the market as a bully and bought their way into their market share.  They’ve never really brought anything revolutionary to the industry.  The PS4 is nothing more than an underpowered gaming PC in a plastic case.  Sony has done so well mostly because of hype and ignorant fans....much the same way the USA has the current president that it does.

The PS1 had over 2000, the N64 had around 400. There's more good games on the PS1 than there are games on the N64. Also, there are many horrible games on the N64 too, like Superman 64 and Carmageddon 64. This seems to be a common thing nowadays, many contest that it was merely that the N64 had better games but not enough people knew about them, completing dismissing all of the great games that the PS1 had.