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couchmonkey said:
KungKras said:
N64, no contest.

It was a bigger strategic disaster for Nintendo, because back then Nintendo had more to lose. But gaming-wise, it brought so much more lasting innovaton. OoT and SM64 are more important to gaming than anything on the Wii U, even BoW.

Woah there! N64 was the bigger strategic disaster?  Nintendo lost around 90 million customers with Wii U, from its no 1 home console of all time to its worst (depending if we count virtual boy).  I guess maybe you are measuring lost third party support, which would sort of be accurate, but While Wii U didn’t have the drama and surprise of losing Square and others the way N64 did — it lost them anyway.

i would also point out that simultaneous to the Wii U upset, 3DS was doing worse than expected.  Then again I believe the game boy business was kind of weak around N64 launch too, it seems like Nintendo likes to fail big!

The thing is, that up until the N64, Nintendo had an aura of invincibility.

The N64 didn't just lose Nintendo marketshare, it gave rise to two powerful competitors that would never have risen if the N64 didn't make the blunders it made.



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