I would have said because of this commerical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTi5EaocGaY
I owned the PS1 the entire generation, but I would buy an N64 on Black Friday. Rent all the games I wanted to play, then return the system after Christmas telling them that it was a X-mas gift I didn't want. Did that for 4 years in a row and was able to play/complete all the N64 games that were good.
When measuring the relative strength of console war ecosystems, here is a very pertinent tidbit:
While the PlayStation certainly passed the N64 in its third year, initially, the Nintendo 64 was a stronger console to develop for than the PlayStation at an equivalent point of time in their console lives.
The N64 clearly lost, but it's still my favourite console. No load times... cartridge all the way.
N64 won in my heart
Same, never really liked the psx. Couldn't stand the jittery graphics and the controller. N64 had a minuscule line up, but it's home to some of the best games of all time. Goldeneye, Mario 64, Zelda OOT, Smash 64, banjo and kazooie. Sooooo good.
The only game on psx I really liked was MGS.
I got my PS1 in 1998. I guess at that point my Saturn was already giving strong signs of death.
Analog controller was huge for me. I used to play PS1 in friends house and i hated the original controller.
Also, Gran Turismo happened and my gaming life was never the same again. There´s a unique game for every gamer converted into Playstation and it all happened from 1997 forwards.
Playstation was a bit niche during 1995-1996. In my country people were still rocking Mega Drives and SNES.
this is by revenue though. N64 games were substantially more expensive than ps1 games at retail on average, with most of that difference going to Nintendo, not third parties.
That was their first console... Nintendo had NES and SNES to establish a first party line up. At least third party games were successful on the PS1. What third party title was a success on the N64?
FF7 was the game that changed it all. It sold well but beyond that, the FMV commercials blew people away and changed perceptions of the system.
I lived through this short lived war:
N64 had a short string of hits and then nothing for months...
Meanwhile playstation had hit after hit after hit and almost half the price for each game compared to N64 cartridges.
And FF7 was a big deal. Even people that never played RPG's before bought in.
Crash, Spyro, Twisted Metal, Wipeout XL, Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, Tekken... all at the height of their popularity and all were new (they seem kind of tired today)
Sony was on fire during this time.
Also a lot of people learned through FF7 that they hated random battles and quit early.
The linearity in the beginning of that game meant they never left Midgard and never saw the game open up.
Wow. That's either an odd lie to tell or you're just a really shitty person.
Don't moralize to me fuckface, I was living on my own, putting myself through college and working two shitty jobs.
At least there was a "war" in NA, there was no such thing in Europe, the Nintendo 64 barely existed here, i am not even sure what happened, it flopped straight out of the gate? I remember seeing SSB commercials and "Get N or get out" but the console was invisible.
The only reason me and my friends got one later on was because we were really into WCW vs WWF and N64 had the best wrestling games.
But man, for every 1 good N64 game, there seemed to be at least 10 great PS1 games.
That was their first console... Nintendo had NES and SNES to establish a first party line up. At least third party games were successful on the PS1. What third party title was a success on the N64?
Nintendo was never big in Europe, the Mega Drive (Genesis) was more popular than the SNES, I had a Super Nintendo and it was so hard to find the games I wanted and the prices were outrageous. But the market in Europe at the time wasn't really big, Sony basically made Europe a videogame market with the success of Playstation. They won thanks to prices and new kind of games that reached out to a new demographic: Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid, Formula 1, Winning Eleven. Games went from kiddy/loser hobby to cool shit for everyone. Piracy helped a lot, the console was extremely easy to mod and you could find pirated games everywhere.
Dragonflys, I'm just doing what you do in literally every single Nintendo thread. Suck it up.
Admitting to thread shitting probably isn't smart.
It was an amazing gen. So many great hidden classics. The perfect fusion of old school gaming and the new 3d graphical frontier.This isnt surprising. The N64 had a hell of a start and was a good console with ridiculous droughts. But it was home to some of the best selling games of that gen.
That generation is >>>> PS2 gen IMO. I really loved gaming on the PSX, N64 and Saturn. So many gems, and 2D was still a thing back then. We started to lose platformers, 2d and more as we moved into the next gen in favor of the GTA's and whatnot. But man that was an incredible gen.
I owned the PS1 the entire generation, but I would buy an N64 on Black Friday. Rent all the games I wanted to play, then return the system after Christmas telling them that it was a X-mas gift I didn't want. Did that for 4 years in a row and was able to play/complete all the N64 games that were good.
roflI owned the PS1 the entire generation, but I would buy an N64 on Black Friday. Rent all the games I wanted to play, then return the system after Christmas telling them that it was a X-mas gift I didn't want. Did that for 4 years in a row and was able to play/complete all the N64 games that were good.
At least there was a "war" in NA, there was no such thing in Europe, the Nintendo 64 barely existed here, i am not even sure what happened, it flopped straight out of the gate? I remember seeing SSB commercials and "Get N or get out" but the console was invisible.
The only reason me and my friends got one later on was because we were really into WCW vs WWF and N64 had the best wrestling games.
But man, for every 1 good N64 game, there seemed to be at least 10 great PS1 games.
N64 games were to expensive compared to the PSX offerings, and once it got easy to import and copy Psone games everybody had to own one. And CD as a medium just allowed for much more flexible pricing on games like the platinum series or the introduction of demos. Cartridges screwed Nintendo and the 64.