N64 Was A Sales Beast And Should Have Won Its Generation

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NightDragon83 said:

VGPolyglot said:

But how important is that really? Most people when buying a console decide it based on the number of games they want and how much they want them, not based on the percentage of games released for the console that are good. And, 102.5 million people vs 33 million people decided that the PS1 had the more appealing library.

And a good chunk of those 102.5 million people were in Europe, where games like the Gran Turismo series were huge, and in Japan where major JRPG releases in the FF and DQ mainline series practially carried the console all by themselves (DQVII is the PS1's best selling game in Japan, where about 95% of its total sales came from).

Nah, I wouldn't say that about Gran Turismo. It was the pack-in game everyone played once or twice to see shiny textures on the cars, and then realized the controls were trash, and the game was boring, then didn't play it again. I don't remember anything but indifference in the opinions surrounding that game. It seems to me that Gran Turismo is more the sort of game that appeals to Americans, given that there are so many rural areas in the states, and those sorts of people tend to have obsessions with cars.

I would say Tomb Raider 1-3, Grand Theft Auto, Crash Bandicoot 1-2, FF7-8, RE1-3, RPGs in general, and fighting games in general, were the biggest attractions.