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Which was the better Platformer?

Super Mario 64 327 76.76%
 
Crash Bandicoot 99 23.24%
 
Total:426
The_Sony_Girl1 on 16 September 2015
naruball said:
Crash easily. Mario 64 is not even in the same league. Crash was amazing, Mario 64 made a good franchise worse. Mario 64 was average at best and even the graphics look horrible.

The graphics looked way better than Crash's creepy looking ones in my opinion. And how did Mario 64 make everything worse?



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AlfredoTurkey on 16 September 2015
Nogamez said:
AlfredoTurkey said:


And yet the Genesis beat the SNES in the US and the PS1 destroyed the N64 WW. In that respect, I fail to see your point. At the time, both mascots helped their respective systems beat Nintendo so one could easily argue that it was a good idea.

Well I'm just gonna say that Mario 64 probably outsold all the crash games and every sonic game every. All though obv PS destroyed N64 saleswse I don't think that was much to do with crash.


The Sonic franchise has sold over 150 million units lol. 



Wyrdness on 16 September 2015
AlfredoTurkey said:

Not in the US my friend... and that's where Sega used those arrogant commercials. 


According to whom? Only place Genesis beat the SNES as I'm aware of was in the UK and markets like Brazil.



Samus Aran on 16 September 2015
AlfredoTurkey said:
Samus Aran said:
AlfredoTurkey said:
Samus Aran said:

Crash barely qualifies as a 3D platformer. The third one was good, the first one is meh.

SM64 is more influential, more revolutionary and simply more ambitious. Let's be honest here, Crash fully deserves his horrible death after that commercial where he insulted Nintendo/Mario in front of their headquarters. The same goes for Sega and Sonic after the "Genesis does what Nintendon't" commercials". Now Sonic is nothing more but an amiibo costume in Super Mario Maker, a character in Super Smash Bros and a Mii skin in Mario Kart 8. Sonic is Nintendo's bitch.

Crash wishes he was an amiibo costume in Super Mario Maker.


And yet the Genesis beat the SNES in the US and the PS1 destroyed the N64 WW. In that respect, I fail to see your point. At the time, both mascots helped their respective systems beat Nintendo so one could easily argue that it was a good idea.

My point is that I don't mourn their death. They had it coming with their arrogance. SNES beat Genesis anyway.

Not in the US my friend... and that's where Sega used those arrogant commercials. 

Well my post never denied that these commercials were effective. I'm just kicking two mascots when they're down. :D A taste of their own medicine!

Although not sure if the Genesis even beat the SNES in the US and if it did the difference was very small.



The_Sony_Girl1 on 16 September 2015
AlfredoTurkey said:
Samus Aran said:
AlfredoTurkey said:
Samus Aran said:

Crash barely qualifies as a 3D platformer. The third one was good, the first one is meh.

SM64 is more influential, more revolutionary and simply more ambitious. Let's be honest here, Crash fully deserves his horrible death after that commercial where he insulted Nintendo/Mario in front of their headquarters. The same goes for Sega and Sonic after the "Genesis does what Nintendon't" commercials". Now Sonic is nothing more but an amiibo costume in Super Mario Maker, a character in Super Smash Bros and a Mii skin in Mario Kart 8. Sonic is Nintendo's bitch.

Crash wishes he was an amiibo costume in Super Mario Maker.


And yet the Genesis beat the SNES in the US and the PS1 destroyed the N64 WW. In that respect, I fail to see your point. At the time, both mascots helped their respective systems beat Nintendo so one could easily argue that it was a good idea.

My point is that I don't mourn their death. They had it coming with their arrogance. SNES beat Genesis anyway.

Not in the US my friend... and that's where Sega used those arrogant commercials.

Not according to VGChartz. SNES had 6 million more sales than the Genesis.



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AlfredoTurkey on 16 September 2015
Wyrdness said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

Not in the US my friend... and that's where Sega used those arrogant commercials. 


According to whom? Only place Genesis beat the SNES as I'm aware of was in the UK and markets like Brazil.


According to NPD data at the time. 

 

"Indirect Network Effects and the Product Cycle: Video Games in the U.S., 1994–2002"



Wyrdness on 16 September 2015
AlfredoTurkey said:


According to NPD data at the time. 

 

"Indirect Network Effects and the Product Cycle: Video Games in the U.S., 1994–2002"


Where exactly does it back what you're saying as all it shows is the percentage sold in the last 2 years of the 2D era and notice how the total units of all consoles sold those year was low while not even showing the sales of the first 5 years. This doesn't back what you're saying at all.



AlfredoTurkey on 16 September 2015
Wyrdness said:
AlfredoTurkey said:


According to NPD data at the time. 

 

"Indirect Network Effects and the Product Cycle: Video Games in the U.S., 1994–2002"


Where exactly does it back what you're saying as all it shows is the percentage sold in the last 2 years of the 2D era and notice how the total units of all consoles sold those year was low while not even showing the sales of the first 5 years. This doesn't back what you're saying at all.


It says by the end of 1994, the Genesis had an install base of 7.6 million to the SNES 4.8. That is nearly a 3 million unit lead with only one year before the launch of the Saturn and two years before the N64. There is no way the SNES could have made up that gap in such a short period of time.

But if you need hard evidence, scroll down to the chart at the bottom. It shows that in 1994, the Genesis sold 58% to the SNES 36%. In 1995, it was 43% to 38% for Genesis. 1996, 19% to 16% Genesis. In 1997, the SNES had it's lone victory selling a mere 1% more than Genesis before being outsold again head to had each year after. If you crunch those numbers, there's no statistical way the SNES could have made a 3 million unit move on the Genesis. In reality, that 3 million just widened.

 



MoHasanie on 16 September 2015

Mario 64 since its my favorite game of all time.



    

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iLikeEggs on 16 September 2015

As some others have said, both are extremely overrated. 

 

Spyro was much better than Crash, and Banjo Kazooie was light years better than SM64. 

Still, Mario 64 was much better than Crash. Crash 3 was pretty dope, though. 



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