Why did the N64 fail?
Why did the N64 fail?
Lincoln Hughes
Luis Ward
it had less third party games that people wanted to play that were on the PlayStation instead. It also came out later as well.
Jose Wright
it sold well in the US, but also this
Camden Johnson
Uh it's got zelda and mario what else do you need?
Julian Baker
>Zoomers think the N64 failed
The absolute state of this board
Sebastian Gonzalez
neither is accurate to the authentic consoles and this picture was clearly made by a nintendr*ne.
Gabriel Perry
the n64 only had 30 games worth buying
because every third party moved to playstation because it was cheaper to make games for it and the disks hold more memory
Luis Barnes
It only failed in Japan because nips pick one console winner per generation and stick with it. It sold very well in the US.
Juan Rogers
it was harder to pirate cartridges than cds
Lincoln Collins
Pretty much this, it had a way bigger support than the sega saturn and better ports than it, some were even better than playstation by a big margin, but overall it was also way smaller than PS1.
The fact that Nintendo had a rocky relationship with third parties and its insistance over catridge were the two things that lead to its issues.
Evan Allen
it comes down to a few factors.
>Nintendo had bet on Sega at least doing kind of well so that Sony wouldn't have as much momentum as they did.
>instead, sega royally shat the bed, leading to PlayStation gaining nothing but momentum in 1995 despite having a terrible launch lineup.
>Nintendo wanted to keep cartridges because they were harder to pirate than CD's, but this alienated a lot of developers who wanted to have orchestrated soundtracks, voice acting, and Full Motion Video.
>Nintendo was also heavily focused on being a 3D based system, whereas Playstation could still accommodate a lot of 2D games
>Also cartridge games were a lot more expensive for the consumer than CD's were.
If nothing else, the playstation brand has thrived for its ability to capitalize on the incompetence of its competition. There's never been a single good playstation console launch, but they stay strong because they just don't fuck up a lot.
Brody Jackson
Also, IIRC, there was a questioning that the N64 had a very small texture cache, and the catridge issue was more on the side that Nintendo didn't have the bigger 32-64MB cartridges at launch, that alone could have helped a lot.
Michael Rivera
well "failure" is not the right word maybe sure, but why didn't it dominate like the PlayStation is the question. It's literally already been answered though. PS1/N64 was the gen where it became: 3rd party >1st party
Jason Price
it failed to get any bitches wet in the panties with it's kiddy games
Ps1 on the other hand had them soaked
James Lopez
you are ignoring Europe and especially the UK though
>inb4 doesn't matter lol
if those regions don't matter then why did N64 take 2nd place?
Camden Rodriguez
My friends bought the PS because you could mod it and play pirated games. Also it had Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, etc, games that every kid wanted to play.
Cooper Gomez
fpbp
Jack Torres
based
Asher Clark
>GoldenEye
>Turok
>Duke Nukem
>Doom 64
>Perfect Dark
>kiddie games
You PS1 fags are delusional. Have sex.
Robert Russell
SHIT CONSOLE
SHIT GAMES
only nostalgiafags like n64
Jason Torres
because it only had like 15 good games and 10 of those were first party
William Lewis
Cartridges
Daniel Reed
resetra tranny discord army says sony always wins and they swallow that up
Andrew Nguyen
it absolutely failed though. PS1 stomped it in most places and in Japan even the Saturn was making the N64 its bitch. The N64 was the moment Nintendo lost its control of the market and even when it more or less regained it with the Wii era it was only through abandoning the core demographic and focusing on casuals instead. Switch is the first time in decades Nintendo has truly dominated the primary demographic and even then that's more because of the handheld aspect since those are far more popular in places like Japan these days.
Nicholas Powell
>game based on a two year old movie
>Dinosaurs are fuckin nerds and geeks
>Duke Nukem is what nerds think a cool guy plays
>The chads wanted to play actual Doom, which was actually on PlayStation
>GoldenEye but the guns go PEW PEW PEW instead of BANG BANG, actively making a bad game even worse. Also the sci-fi setting is nerdy as hell.
Christian Hughes
Its the first nogaems machine
T. Loves my n64
Levi Smith
Those were pretty good games when they came out but they control like absolute dogshit. I like both consoles but if your a N64 stan you should probably not get in a pissing match about FPS because even the N64's greats aged like milk
Christopher Scott
N64 was still the patrician choice - gaystation had ff7 and that was about it. N64 had over a dozen fantastic games
Isaiah Sanchez
Soccered
Zachary Gray
>only nostalgiafags like n64
not so. i had a PlayStation in the 90's and a gameboy color, i then had a PS2 in the early 2000's, which unfortunately died around 2004. With nothing to play on till i saved up for another, i picked up an N64 for £12, and 3 games for £4 each. SM64, Lylat Wars (Star Fox 64) and Ocarina of time. Tell you what, even though i had already experienced games like GTAIII, the world of OOT was infinitely more alive and a "real place" despite all it's hardware limitations.
Got a PS2 but kept regularly playing my N64 and building a collection of must haves. Mischief Makers was a stand out.
Zachary Morris
The N64 cartridges were too expensive and nintendo passed that cost onto devs. So devs would just make games for the ps1 instead
Brandon Brooks
If you like N64 you are nostalgia blinded simple as. Saturn and PSX are far superior consoles.
Logan Johnson
This kills the snoy
Samuel Diaz
>Saturn
lol keep dreaming segafag.
Jason Rivera
It only had Mario 64, OoT and MM.
Camden Cox
>> It's too bad N64 failed as it was basically superior in every way
No one gives a shit about remastering 99% of the PS1 library because its antiquated and soulless even back then. Going back and trying to play PS1 games is hard even for someone like me who was born in the era.
On the other hand N64 controls super well provided yo have a good controller.
Justin Reyes
>Dinosaurs are fuckin nerds and geeks
Landon Nguyen
all I'm seeing is that third parties completely died on nintendo while they thrived on playstation
Jason Perez
Camden Turner
Literally DVD Player.
Nathaniel Ortiz
nintendo were assholes to third party developers and sony was actually welcoming to them
Owen Lopez
>doesn't name WWF No Mercy
You had one job
Ayden Peterson
Cope. Saturn has patrician arcade games.
Colton Davis
>ff7 and that was about it
Justin Sullivan
Games could be rented those days.
Jayden Anderson
yup
Tyler Martinez
Ps1 had MGS1, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro and others
Fuck off with your console war faggotry
I didnt even have a ps1
David Parker
PS1 and PS2 could be modded and games would be free.
Pirating for the N64 is impossible
Carter Ward
Mason Phillips
a game cost more than a cd
Samuel Baker
Crash bandicoot was never good
MGS1 is good, Spyro is a worse version of banjo kazooie
Parker Walker
well let's see, Sony games don't leave 8 million sales territory until their seven game, meanwhile nintendo games sell so poorly that only their top 3 are above 8 million. Final Fantasy IX, of all fucking games, outsells more than half of the N64's shitty lineup of bing bing wahoo toy games.
Lincoln Lopez
Crash shitacoot oh no man not my running. Spyro was okay as well but comparing it to Donkey Long and other N64 platformers its like a joke man.
Robert Smith
sony has been incompetent since the ps3
Luke Foster
It didn't
Austin Collins
what's even the fucking point of posting when aside from the few annoyed bites like mine, you know you are going to be overwhelmingly ignored for being so ridiculously churlish about it?
Lincoln Gonzalez
ff and mgs jumped ship
Logan Cook
MGS series sucks and is overrated. Its got like 1 good game on the PS2.
Connor Morales
The point is that nearly all of the games in the N64 top sellers are kino that aged well and snoystation has a few that play like trash but people have nostalgia goggles on for them.
Dylan Jackson
>banjo kazooie
It's time people got off this things ugly dick
Isaiah Campbell
I mean even if you hated FF8 (and are wrong), there's still FF9, Tactics, MGS, various Tekkens, Crash, and a long list of B-tier JRPGs
Levi Sanders
Nobody wants to play arcade ports when they're so badly downgraded. There's a reason people raved over the home port of Ridge Racer and not Daytona, even though the arcade iteration of Daytona blew Ridge Racer out of the water.
Ian Martinez
>the saturn fags are here
Cameron Hill
nintendo was so butthurt at ff jumping ship that they crucified square
Ethan Johnson
>vs. some of the best platformers and party games ever made