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Soundwave said:

It's hard to say too because Switch and Wii benefitted a lot from being able to borrow games from their predecessors.

Imagine the GameCube got to launch with say ... Zelda: Majora's Mask and Perfect Dark. Probably would have had a bit of a different product cycle, certainly a stronger start.

Modern systems are harder to gauge because so much of the content, even major content is from previous platforms (this is true of the PS5/XSX too).

SNES usually wins these polls, but N64 should have topped the SNES. 

GC did have prior games though, Animal Crossing was a port of the N64 game not released outside of Japan and the Zelda games on N64 were released on GC as well as the whole RE mainline series old games on newer platforms have been a thing for ages, even if you removed prior content from Switch it would still top N64 and GC for example look at RPGs on the Switch an area in the library long criticized on prior platforms only the SNES really compares another point is look at the launch year even without BOTW and MK8 NS still had SMO, XBC2, Splatoon 2, Mario+Rabbids, and FE Warriors.

N64 launched with SM64 one of the greatest games of all time and had various games that fall into that boat that still didn't help it as at the end of the day if we're comparing platforms appeal is one thing but objectives certainly can't be overlooked.