On a personal note, the PS1 is was changed me from a Nintendo fanboy to a PS fan.

I had played some Genesis at my uncle's house, but it was all NES and SNES for me at home. I wanted a N64 really bad, and when I heard about the PS1 I was like, "WTF is this crap." I thought the controller was stupid looking, especially with its grips and shapes on the buttons, which means I had either not seen the monstrosity that was the N64 controller or I was just too much of a fanboy to care that it was worse. Either way, I thought the system was dumb and the N64 would kick its ass.

But, then one day I went to a friend's house and his nephew had brought his PS1. Inside I scoffed, but I figured I'd give it a shot. The first time I held the controller it was almost like magic. It just felt right in my hands. I played Tekken, Alien Trilogy, and Soviet Strike. I was blown away by how much fun the games were, the graphics, the FMVS, and the kind of sound you could get from a CD. Within two hours I knew I wanted a PS1 much more than a N64. Been a PS fan ever since.

Can't believe people still so fervently fight for this long gone console. Nintendo is quite stupid in several instances and the N64 was one of those, just like the Wii U. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people who fight on behalf of the Wii U also do the same with the N64.

Um, pretty sure BOTH consoles had alot more quality titles than that lol.  Heck, Rare alone developed 11 titles for the N64 in just 5 years, and nearly all of them save for perhaps Mickey's Speedway USA were top notch.  And this might shock you, but the N64 actually had a good amount of quality 3rd party titles as well despite its reputation for being difficult for 3rd parties to work with and general lack of 3rd party support compared to the PS1.

And a good chunk of those 102.5 million people were in Europe, where games like the Gran Turismo series were huge, and in Japan where major JRPG releases in the FF and DQ mainline series practially carried the console all by themselves (DQVII is the PS1's best selling game in Japan, where about 95% of its total sales came from).

C'mon, man. 

Did you stop to think about what you were typing?

Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, MK64, Smash Bros., Body Harvest, Star Fox 64, Perfect Dark, Majora's Mask, Jet Force Gemini, Turok, Pokemon Snap,1080, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Bomberman 64, Rogue Squadron, Banjo Kazooie, Wave Race 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Paper Mario, F-Zero X, Kirby 64, Harvest Moon 64, Yoshi's Story, etc. 

Yes. Look at the NES era. Notice how so many developers on NES were not around for SNES or Genesis era? One example is Ultra on NES who made TMNT. Nintendo also limited how many game sa dev could release in a certain time frame. Many devs created fake labels like Konami released some games under the Ultra brand. Nintendo still was contorlling who got the carts which was expensive but by SNES they dropped the restrictions of only 5 games per dev in one year.

N64 wasnt nearly popular in Japan and in Europe like it was in US. Saying that, personally best console ever.

Take the ratio, rather than the "hard" numbers. =P

Nah, I wouldn't say that about Gran Turismo. It was the pack-in game everyone played once or twice to see shiny textures on the cars, and then realized the controls were trash, and the game was boring, then didn't play it again. I don't remember anything but indifference in the opinions surrounding that game. It seems to me that Gran Turismo is more the sort of game that appeals to Americans, given that there are so many rural areas in the states, and those sorts of people tend to have obsessions with cars.

I would say Tomb Raider 1-3, Grand Theft Auto, Crash Bandicoot 1-2, FF7-8, RE1-3, RPGs in general, and fighting games in general, were the biggest attractions.

Is this a joke?