drk421 on 04 September 2020
Nope. Having lived through that generation of consoles, Nintendo had a serious image problem back then.
Nintendo was seen as the system for kids, hence the "kiddie" image. Sony did a great job marketing the Playstation as the "mature" system, and it worked.
While the N64 did have mature games, it didn't matter. The "kiddie" image stuck all the way through the Gamecube era until the Wii came out. Which looked and felt more like an Apple product. Gone was the colorful box.
Nintendo being arrogant to 3rd parties, using expensive cartridges, N64 being hard to develop for, also factored in, but the "kiddie" image was the worst of it.
