N64 Was A Sales Beast And Should Have Won Its Generation

[TheBlackNaruto]

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.

I am sorry but I fully disagree with your first sentnce and almost your entire post actually....the N64 had a FEW great games but the rest of the library was trash. The PS1 BYF AR had more good and great games than the N64 and I ABSOLUTELY loved my N64 but it was nowhere near as good as the PS1. And No the N64 was not superior to the PS1 in every way....not at all. I can't speak on the "secret shopper" stuff for sure BUT to say it a FACT that they had it done based on hear say and a few  random things you saw is just crazy. And if it was really well known it should be easy for you to find about Sony having people do that for the PS. Not saying it could not have happened but you have to provide some type of prrof with a claim like that.

And Sony was already in the market....you speak all that about Sony but absolutely ignore the arrogant ignorance that was Nintendo with the N64....I was around back then I rememebr all the stuff that theys aid to 3rd party developers.....that was when 3rd party support with Nintendo systems began to all but disappear because they acted as if they didn't want any game not made by Nintendo on their system( I see someone in this thread actually posted one of the examples regarding FF). Sony didn't bully anything Nintendo LITERALLY handed them the industry on a silver platter by being arrogant and making stupid decisions with not only the N64 but also with the Gamecube.

And lastly every gaming machince is an under pwoered PC in a plastic case lol why single out the PS4? And if Sony only did well because of hype and ignorant fans then they would have been gone from the industry a long time ago....heck if it was just hype and ignorant fans the PS4 would not be selling as well as it is now either. It just seems like you don't like Sony and that is fine you have your preferences. But this entire post was just fully of false statements and seemed like a rant form someone to jsut down a company they do not like.....imo of course.