The following polls were conducted in the last two weeks over at GameFAQs, (www.gamefaqs.com), which has a very large number of users, mainly from the United States, male and under 30 judging from past polls. Based on this, everyone ought to have bought both the GC and N64 because they had one of each of their favourite ever series of games within a genre on them.
A huge percentage of the people who go to Gamefaqs go for the message boards, that was in another poll. Much like the boards here, the Nintendo fans outnumber the Sony fans simply because the Wii is far more popular than the PS3. There was another poll which showed just how many of the people who voted were Wii owners, it was a lot of them. Obviously these people are going to vote for Nintendo series. PS2 fans used to dominate the polls, but that has changed this generation. Final Fantasy is almost equal to Zelda as the most popular series on the site, it did win the console RPG poll with 66,000 votes, about 20,000 more than Zelda got. The Gamefaqs top 10 FAQs are dominated by FF games and the FF boards are always extremely popular, so there are just as many Final Fantasy fans on the site, and most of them are PS/PS2 owners. However, Nintendo is still the most popular company among people who visit Gamefaqs regularly nowadays because of the popularity of the Wii versus the lack of popularity of the PS3.
One more thing, a lot of those series are popular among people who didn't even own an N64 or Game Cube, they just played it on a borrowed system or something. I don't think you'll find many people on any board who haven't played Ocarina of Time.
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What's your all-time favorite 3D fighting series?
Dead or Alive 6.08%
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai/Tenkaichi 7.54%
Soul Calibur 16.41%
Super Smash Bros. 53.48%
Tekken 13.43%
Virtua Fighter 3.06%
Well this should be obvious, everyone has played Smash Bros. even if they didn't own an N64 or a Game Cube. Most people have a friend who owns it. None of the other fighting games are anywhere near as popular as Smash Bros.
What's your all-time favorite science fiction first-person shooter series?
Doom 14.9%
Half-Life 22.73%
Metroid Prime 30.04%
Quake 3.68%
Serious Sam 1.35%
Star Wars: Jedi Knight 8.95%
Timesplitters 10.17%
Unreal 8.18%
Almost all of those are PC FPS series and nobody plays PC games any more.
What's your all-time favorite 2D platform game series?
Bubble Bobble 1.93%
Castlevania 14.03%
Donkey Kong Country 5.96%
Ghosts 'n Goblins 0.8%
Mega Man 18.54%
Sonic the Hedgehog 15.67%
Super Mario Bros. 43.06%
All of the 2-d Mario games were on the NES and SNES and anyone who is fairly old has played these games and it's obviously a legendary series.
What's your all-time favorite 3D action adventure game series?
Devil May Cry 6.67%
God of War 6.25%
Grand Theft Auto 16.29%
Hitman 1.74%
Metal Gear Solid 17.12%
Prince of Persia 2.37%
Spider-Man 1.25%
The Legend of Zelda 46.73%
Tomb Raider 1.58%
Is it any surprise that Zelda won? Zelda is the most well recieved series of all time and it has been around since the NES. Link almost always wins in the Gamefaqs character battles, usually just above a Squaresoft character(Cloud, Sephiroth, or Chrono).
So yeah, the poll results are not unusual, they would probably be the same no matter which site you went to.
