Nintendo 64 vs PlayStation

PlayStation had a better library by quite a margin. N64 was missing most of the third party stuff that made the SNES such a juggernaut. PS1 continued where the SNES left off in that regard. And exclusive wise, apart from literally Mario 64, I'd rather play PS1 exclusives.

N64 remains my favorite and one of my favorite consoles of all time (also, without a doubt, one of the most important consoles ever made), but I have warmed up to the PS1 quite a bit in recent years. I think you couldn't do without having both that generation, that is for sure.

As far I remember, ps1 had better library but N64 had some interesting tittle such as James Bond and Perfect Dark.

So I go with PS1.

Innovation - N64 (on the games front)

Controller - PS1 (Dualshock only)

Exclusives - PS1

Appeal? PS1 I reckon, it sold more if that's what you mean.

Both are great but I absolutely hate the Dualshock design so that is literally my only issue with the PS1. The games were just magical on both fronts for me.

This is a toss up for me. PS1 clearly had the better overall library but N64 was the best local multiplayer console ever bar none. I loved both of them.

Technically of speak, this is where Nintendo did the whole backstabing Sony when Sony themselves trying to be bullies to Nintendo and anyone who was there, knows the results what happen to Sony/Nintendo partnership deal. Now then, I had both back in the late 90's, the PlayStation gave us CD Rom disc that were the superior of developers choice over cartridges. Cartridges were damn expansive back then, owning a CD Rom was the coolest thing on the block and most of all, holds way more data. I love both however but PlayStation was better in every way, I had totally great times with there games like Ape Escape, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Metal Gear Solid, and most of all, Final Fantasy and when FF came to PlayStation as an exclusive, it was game over for N64.

Nintendo just got stubborn by not going CD Rom.

Playstation 1.

A lot of N64 games have aged tremendously poorly, and the controller in retrospect is a poorly designed piece of trash.

Playstation.

Had 'em both but ps1 was far, far superior in my fav genre : rpgs

Chrono Cross, Grandia, Legend of Dragoon, Wild arms, FF Vagrant story etc...

In that regard the N64 system was a total failure.

Playstation. It has many great games. Some of the best single player experiences I had were on that system. N64 is a beast as well. I used it more when friends were over and we'd play Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Mario Kart 64. 5th gen was awesome. You can't go wrong with either.

N64 edges the PS1 out because of the 4 player split screen Fun factor.

PS1 could play music, it was an awesome gimmick. Its was just way "cooler" back then. N64 was for nerds. But PS1 was super slow and gave us horrible loading screens, set us back lick 20 years in gaming tech.

The Playstation had alot of great games, and devs could do stuff on the PS1 which they couldn't do on the N64 simply because of the CD format. Even though the N64 was more powerfull, the cartridge was a huge bottleneck with only 64MB of storage capacity. This ment that alot of third party games just wasn't possible on the N64 without tons of work and removing stuff. And don't forget the costs of N64 games because of cartridges, which was alot more expensive than PS1 games.

The N64 had tons of social fun factor though, with it's split screen games. But the better singleplayer games on the PS1 was alot more important to me.

N64 for me. Even if it didn't have as many games as PS1, the games were better.

Playstation.

20 years back and 40 years forward. Disc format was a game changer.

The CD player for the first edition Playstation was very high quality too.

Take away the multiplats , Playstation is a fairly mediocre console.

N64 has some of the greatest games made.

@funkmaster1233: Very true, i hear its a collectors item among sound fanatics.

Sure, if you enjoy super slow loading and scratched disc.

What? Disc based media are now the most common form of physical media. Cart doesn't eliminate load times..

The Innovation round was nonsense. The one innovation they mention for the PS1 was not even a PS1 innovation, but was already being used by half a dozen consoles (Turbo CD, Sega CD, CD-i, FM Towns Marty, 3DO and Sega Saturn) before the PS1 released. The PS1 deserves no credit for that innovation whatsoever. And then the video went further and actually gave the PS1 the point for that one non-innovation, above the N64's genuine revolutionary innovations like the analog thumbstick, rumble pak and four controller ports. Ridiculous.

Cool, but PS1 was the better console.

Regarding the CD vs Cartridge debate...

Read speeds:

• PS1 CD-ROM disc - 300 KB/sec
• N64 ROM cartridge - 264 MB/sec

N64 carts were a whopping 900 times faster than PS1 discs. The N64 could load the largest N64 cart (64 MB) in a fraction of a second. N64 ROM carts were so fast that developers often used them as extended RAM, streaming data (such as textures) directly from the ROM cartridge. It was like having an additional 8-64 MB of RAM, giving the N64 a major advantage over the PS1 in terms of power.

The technical advantage that PS1 discs had over N64 carts is often exaggerated. CD had a lot more storage space, but the PS1 also lacked compression, meaning data took up far more space than necessary on discs. On the other hand, the N64 supported compression, allowing large amounts of data to be compressed down to smaller sizes. Resident Evil 2 required two PS1 discs, so many thought the N64 could never handle it, yet the N64 got a port that compressed two PS1 discs down into a single 64 MB cartridge, because of its compression capabilities.

I was a N64 kid when it came out. So many good memories from the Legend of Zelda games to Mario 64. My friends and I had good times with the multiplayer since it did it right with Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. Even the Star Fox multiplayer was alright. I have fond memories of Playstation also due to it having the Final Fantasy series and Spyro but I have to give the edge to the N64 for being the console I had more fun with personally.

n64.

The only console I had back then was the Sega Saturn.

I agree with this. For any other generation, I could see someone getting by with just one console, but for this generation, if you did not own both a N64 and a Playstation, you missed out on a lot.

Between the two, I definitely preferred the N64. Quality over quantity; while the Playstation had a deeper and more diverse library of games, the N64's top games were of higher quality. If you compare the N64's top 10 exclusives to the Playstation's top 10 exclusives, the N64 easily wins. Plus, the N64 was more powerful and in my opinion had a better controller (I hate the Playstation controller). And the best thing about the N64 is that it was the greatest party console of all time; some of my greatest gaming memories are from playing the N64's extremely fun multiplayer games with friends; the Playstation was rarely touched when friends were over.

This is a tough call. PSX's library was much better allrounder (N64 lacked RPGs and didn't overall have nearly as many games as PSX).

But there were some N64 exclusives that were pretty amazing (Zelda OoT, Zelda MM, Mario 64, Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day, etc.) that I had to vote for N64 in the end...

Coolyfett missed most if not ALL of this generation. A few friends from high school had these consoles, and most friends had the PS1 that Coolyfett would casually play Madden 95 and 96 on. The thing Coolyfett remembers most was Crash, Madden Football, Tekken, James Bond, Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Donkey Kong. None of Coolyfetts friends had the Sega Saturn which was also out during this timeline it was from 1996 to about 1999 kids were playing these systems. Thanks for making Coolyfett feel OLD!!!

PS.

Playstation. That thing was RPG Paradise, and you know I love me some tasty RPG goodness.

WatchMojo and credibility = does not compute. They put Commander Shepard on an honorable mention for top female characters, even though she's like most every other RPG character, such as the Dragonborn, Hero of Kvatch, Pokemon Trainer, Courier Six, etc.

The N64 had some great games, but the PlayStation was the better system.. N64 really fucked itself when it went with cartridges that could hold at most like 60mbs.. The PlayStation discs could hold something like 600 megs..

PS: the golden era of JRPGs (SNES be damned).

I was a huge Nintendo fanboy. I read everything about Project Reality and the Ultra 64 I could get my hands on. I didn't think Sony had a chance of success.

Out of curiosity I eventually rented a PS1 and grabbed the only title left on the shelf, some stupid game I have never heard of titled "Resident Evil". It was so brutal, so exciting, so adult. I loved it.

I missed out on most of the PS1 era but I really loved my N64 (SM 64, Waverace, Zelda OOT, Banjo-Kazooie, Golden Eye, Turok, Star Wars SOTE, Perfect Dark, Star Wars Racer, Extreme G, etc)

PS1, it's just a vastly more exciting console to revisit for me. Reading up on its classics and then loading them up on my Vita remind me how different the 90s were in gaming.

That being said, no PS1 game can mean as much to me as Super Mario 64, because I love that game's impact, its sheer replayability, hell, even its remake. Game was and is dope.

@Jag85: The biggest downside to carts was the cost. A CD could be pressed for pennies while a cart could cost $25-35 (depending on the size); literally a 100 times more costly. It was a huge financial burden (as well as risk, if the game didn't sell) to publish on the N64.

PS won innovation? lol

Never had a N64, so Playstation.

• CD discs for gaming
• CD music player
• Memory cards
• Dual stick controller

The real question is how did the N64 win the exclusive Battle?

Playstation had these titles exclusive off the top of my head

• Gran Turismo
• Ridge Racer Type 4
• Tomb Raider II
• Silent Hill
• Twisted Metal 2
• Crash Bandicoot
• Metal Gear Solid
• Final Fantasy 7
• Chrono Cross
• Spyro the Dragon
• Tekken 2

N64. Multiplayer was the shit with that thing, not to mention some of its deadly exclusives.

If you missed out on either then that gen sucked for you.

But yeah, PS1.

PS1

It's too obvious and I posted on this topic many times before.

I owned both and if you owned both back then and went to the store every month for new games, you could see one machine was raining high quality innovative new industry defining games and the other you would starve a long time and then get a sweet, epic industry defining game as well.

It was no contest though. I did love fighting games and the absence of Street Fighter and other major fighting games hurt bad, but generally kick ass 2D games like Castlevania SOTN or Metal Gear Solid not releasing on N64 also sucked. The various late Playstation ports on the N64, usually priced $20 more due to cartridges. Why would I want to wait for a late port version priced higher and with less audio/music? Nope. I had all the machines. That said, the N64 did have some great games, just not nearly as many. The deficit on gaming libraries was MASSIVE.

To be a kid though, things were different. I wasn't a kid. A kid typically didn't have disposable money, they didn't have a way to stores, they didn't drive, they didn't buy games every month, they didn't reserve/pre-order games, they didn't see the difference of how many games were on each shelf, and many were far more forgiving on that era because ignorance is bliss (and to be fair, Nintendo bliss is awesome), much like I'll say in 15-20 years when people are talking about the Wii U as the greatest Nintendo machine ever made. Trust me, it's going to happen.

This...

I also think your age at the time had a lot to do with things. I grew up with nintendo on the nes and snes, (also had genesis and tg16 and various pcs at the time) , but stopped caring about nintendo first party during the early 90s. In fact I stopped gaming for a time in high school. It wasn't til I was out of high school that the PS1 came out and brought me back to gaming. With juggernaut RPGS.... that continued and were way more advanced than I remembered from the nes/snes era... That with Resident evil, tomb raider, road rash, and a ton of other games that were targeted more at adults...

To me it felt like a mold was formed in that gen... Nintendo for children, Sega for angsty teens, and Playstation for adults and everyone in between. Of course not everyone fit that mold, but that was the way things seemed to me.

I am sure if Nintendo actually had RPGS I would of bought that too... but it didn't and neither did Sega at that time either... so PC and Playstation became my go to combo by default, and has been that way ever since...

This, so much this... I was out of high school with a job... going to the store and seeing a golden era of JRPGS and games that weren't targeted for children.... And back then the games would go on sale really quickly. I remember going to the mom and pops game stores back then and coming out with 5 games at a time. It was nice getting them for $10-30 a pop...meanwhile all n64 games were released few and far between, no rpgs, and just didn't appeal to me, plus they were expensive.

PlayStation easily, that superior library is just too good. N64 had it's share of classic games but in terms of variety it was sorely disappointing compared to the Disc based beast.

To this day we still talk/mention classic N64 exclusives and yet nobody ever talks about any PSX game. So guess which one I'm voting for?