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Which was the better Platformer?

Super Mario 64 327 76.76%
 
Crash Bandicoot 99 23.24%
 
Total:426
Wyrdness on 16 September 2015
AlfredoTurkey said:


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.

 


This is from your own source.

The installed base at the beginning of 1994 is obtained from Bayus and Shankar (2003, Table 1), which reports the installed base of NES (25.7), SNES (4.8), and Genesis (7.6) in 1994. The number in a parenthesis is in million units. Although the numbers are somewhat inconsistent with those reported in Brandenburger (1995b) for SNES (8.5) and Genesis (10.6), we use the data from the former.

Here is an official showing from Nintendo themselves.

http://www.webcitation.org/5nXieXX2B

Under what you're saying the's no way the SNES could have over 40m sales, this calls into questions the numbers being used in your link to begin with as Nintendo's document shows 23m SNES' sold in the US.



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AZWification on 16 September 2015

Both games are still tons of fun even to this day, but Mario 64 wins this one for me!



                
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StarOcean on 16 September 2015

SM64. Crash is just so repulsive looking I couldn't play that game even if I wanted to, I detest the art style



thatguymarco on 16 September 2015

Crash Bandicoot 2 > Super Mario 64 > Crash Bandicoot 3 > Crash Bandicoot



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h2ohno on 16 September 2015

Crash 1 was an inferior version of Donkey Kong Country, just running forwards instead of sideways most of the time. There's no comparison to an industry-changing game like SM64.

The kart racers would be a better comparison.



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naruball on 16 September 2015
The_Sony_Girl1 said:
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?


Crash looked and still looks superb the way it was. Not creepy at all. As for Mario 64, 2d Mario was fine as it was. There was no need for it to go 3d and mess everything up. Not only did it look weird as hell, but it lost some of its charm and actually looked creepy.

Cute.

Just ew.



Justagamer on 16 September 2015

Comparing crash, any of them to Mario 64, is like trying to compare Rex grossman to joe montana, there is no comparison. Mario 64 makes the greatest lists, crash does not, and hasn't had a new game for a long time for a reason. And yes, I played them all.



Nogamez on 16 September 2015
AlfredoTurkey said:
Nogamez said:

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. 


Dude I didn't mean the entire sonic franchise. I meant a single sonic or crash entry.



Zekkyou on 16 September 2015
Goodnightmoon said:
Mario 64 was way more revolutionary in every sense, Crash was trying to be Mario on the first place. Gameplay wise Mario 64 is way superior to Crash 1, but if we compare it with Crash 3 things are more equal in terms of fun.

I'd personally pick Mario 64 too since i didn't like the first Crash game much (i thought the 2nd and 3rd were far better), but i don't think Crash was 'trying to be Mario'. It released only 2 - 3 months later, and there was plenty that separated the two of them.



d21lewis on 16 September 2015

Most one sided poll, ever?