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Frogger on 10 September 2015
onionberry said:
spemanig said:
I wonder what ramifications it would have on gaming as a whole. 3D gaming could be way different.


yeah, video games without open environments and the camera would be static and fixed.

oh whait... 


Or someone else may have come up with a different, even better solution that could only be imagined in a world where Mario 64 didn't make the standard.



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Mr Puggsly on 10 September 2015

Nintendo would have less money?

The best selling Mario games are 2D platformers. So I'm not sure if it would have really mattered.



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Mr Puggsly on 10 September 2015
Soundwave said:
It would have been terrible for the N64, but maybe better for Nintendo as a whole because it likely would have meant the N64 would have died earlier, thus they would have been forced to released a optical disc format console like several years earlier and may have been able to stem their losses.

In your scenario Mario 64 was the only N64 game that mattered.



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Soundwave on 11 September 2015
Mr Puggsly said:
Soundwave said:
It would have been terrible for the N64, but maybe better for Nintendo as a whole because it likely would have meant the N64 would have died earlier, thus they would have been forced to released a optical disc format console like several years earlier and may have been able to stem their losses.

In your scenario Mario 64 was the only N64 game that mattered.


The system had so few releases especially early in its life cycle though that removing Mario 64 would've been catastrophic. Your launch title then becomes Pilotwings 64 and nothing else until Wave Race 64. The system would've sputtered like the Sega Saturn did. 



sethnintendo on 11 September 2015
d21lewis said:
PlayStation would have outsold N64.



Also, Super AIDS.


Playstation did outsell the N64 (you should know this and if so it was a dumb joke; only your super aids saved you from going to a corner and crying).  I blame release delay and carts at the time being so expensive to losing to Sony.  Now that carts are cheap Nintendo should just go all carts.  Mario Kart



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asqarkabab on 11 September 2015

We wouldnt see super mario galaxy



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d21lewis on 11 September 2015
sethnintendo said:
d21lewis said:
PlayStation would have outsold N64.



Also, Super AIDS.


Playstation did outsell the N64 (you should know this and if so it was a dumb joke; only your super aids saved you from going to a corner and crying).  I blame release delay and carts at the time being so expensive to losing to Sony.  Now that carts are cheap Nintendo should just go all carts.  Mario Kart


So you're saying a bad Super Mario would have made N64 outsell PlayStation? Smh. Poor, naïve Seth.

 

And how do you know I have Super AIDS?



melbye on 11 September 2015

It's Nintendo so it never was going to be terrible



AZWification on 11 September 2015

I don't even want to think about such a horrible world!



                
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archer9234 on 11 September 2015

If it failed. Than that means OOT would of failed. This would of made the N64 weaker in peoples mind sets. And we probably wouldn't of gotten Windwakers design. They'd be more resistant in trying something new.