Soundwave said:
Rare should count, Nintendo financed basically all their games during that time and marketed all of them. They were a 2nd party studio for all intents and purposes. Nintendo did btw publish Blast Corps, Killer Instinct Gold, GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Mickey Speedway USA, Donkey Kong 64, the deal with MS had nothing to do with Nintendo publishing certain games or not. The N64 wouldn't have sold 2x better if Nintendo published some weird niche "unique" games, the problem was not the 1st/2nd party output which quite frankly was spectacular and arguably better than GameCube or Wii. The problem was the cartridge only solution cut the legs off the system before it ever had a chance. Take all the 3rd party support from the NES or SNES and give it basically all to Sega and the Master System and Genesis beat the NES and SNES and I doubt either the NES or SNES sells even 33 million units that the N64 got to. |
Maybe the SNES. In the US, NES built the market. Super Mario Bros. 3 is one of the few games in video game history that has delivered the hype it promised. I believe third party support on a Nintendo console hurts a console's longevity more than its sales. The case of Wii when Nintendo abandoned the console plummeted in sales.
Last edited by Agente42 - on 17 October 2019