PS1 outsold N64?

N64: 32 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64

PS1: 102 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)

Its funny, I remember everyone having an N64, not a PS1.

i think this would be best put on the legacy boards.

The PS1 outsold the N64, that's common knowledge.tagyhag

Hardly anybody had a PS1 in my area the only other people I knew that had a PS1 their parents worked at the Sony plant that was a few miles from my house but in 2006 or 2007 they shut that plant down.

N64 must've been more popular in the US, because I only knew one person with a PS1, and the rest of my friends had N64.

I didn't know anyone with a PS1. I guess it was because I was a kid and everyone I knew was a kid. PS1 probably was for the more adult crowd and adults usually like terrible games as long as there's some kind of gore in em.IAMSERIAL

i never owned a N64 but i did a ps1 and now that i think about, everyone had a n64 thats weird

[QUOTE="IAMSERIAL"]I didn't know anyone with a PS1. I guess it was because I was a kid and everyone I knew was a kid. PS1 probably was for the more adult crowd and adults usually like terrible games as long as there's some kind of gore in em.siLVURcross

[QUOTE="IAMSERIAL"]I didn't know anyone with a PS1. I guess it was because I was a kid and everyone I knew was a kid. PS1 probably was for the more adult crowd and adults usually like terrible games as long as there's some kind of gore in em.siLVURcross

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"][QUOTE="IAMSERIAL"]I didn't know anyone with a PS1. I guess it was because I was a kid and everyone I knew was a kid. PS1 probably was for the more adult crowd and adults usually like terrible games as long as there's some kind of gore in em.IAMSERIAL

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"][QUOTE="IAMSERIAL"]I didn't know anyone with a PS1. I guess it was because I was a kid and everyone I knew was a kid. PS1 probably was for the more adult crowd and adults usually like terrible games as long as there's some kind of gore in em.J-WOW

[QUOTE="J-WOW"][QUOTE="siLVURcross"] lolwut, the PS1 had a great library.IAMSERIAL

PS1 had a pretty bad library. Other then its RPGs it was lacking.

PS1 had a pretty bad library. Other then its RPGs it was lacking.

magnax1

[QUOTE="magnax1"]

PS1 had a pretty bad library. Other then its RPGs it was lacking.

Chris_Williams

Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and anything else Rare did....

A lot of people had N64 where I lived. It was popular with the boys I knew. But you're right, it was outsold by the PS1 by a large margin and even had a far wider selection of quality games.

[QUOTE="magnax1"]

PS1 had a pretty bad library. Other then its RPGs it was lacking.

Chris_Williams

N64 had a better library in every genre except fighter and RPGS

Turok 1-3, DK64, Banjo 1 &2 Conker, Zelda OOT and MM, Rogue Squadron, Perfect dark, Goldeneye, Smash bros, Starfox, Kirby, Mario Kart, epsisode 1 racer, FZero, World Driver, Blast Corps, jet force gemini,excite bike, and 1080. The amount of PS1 games anywhere near as good as those in their genres is so miniscule. The PS1 was pretty bad, especially compared to its N64 counterpart.

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"][QUOTE="IAMSERIAL"]I didn't know anyone with a PS1. I guess it was because I was a kid and everyone I knew was a kid. PS1 probably was for the more adult crowd and adults usually like terrible games as long as there's some kind of gore in em.IAMSERIAL

On gamestop, PS1 had far more AAA and AA games than N64. By a huge margin. It was the superior console.

Nintendo got spanked because they didn't use CDs, which gave the PS1 a huge advantage. Developers could make more complex games with higher production values, and they were cheaper for the customer since they didn't have to pay for an expensive Nintendo-made cartridge. On N64, games would cost anywhere from $60 to $80, while on the PS1 the most they'd ever cost was $50. Publishers saved money on not having to buy and sell the carts, and they passed the savings on to the customers.

I remember getting really annoyed late in the N64's lifespan because of how rare new games of high quality were getting. It was like, only a couple of good releases a year and that was it. Granted I didn't have a lot of money back then anyway, but even so, the N64 had a hard time keeping up with players' desire to play new games. Nintendo was very much still following the "killer app" business model of having a couple games that people really wanted to play which would last the entire generation, rather than maintaining a steady flow of monthly releases.

Nintendo got spanked because they didn't use CDs, which gave the PS1 a huge advantage. Developers could make more complex games with higher production values, and they were cheaper for the customer since they didn't have to pay for an expensive Nintendo-made cartridge. On N64, games would cost anywhere from $60 to $80, while on the PS1 the most they'd ever cost was $50. Publishers saved money on not having to buy and sell the carts, and they passed the savings on to the customers.

Timstuff

This and Nintendo's business practices during the SNES era. Nintendo viewed 3rd party developers as competition. Because they had direct control over how many games developers could produce, how big of cartridges they could use, etc, they could limit the capabilities of 3rd parties like Square. And that's what they did. Moreover, they charged 3rd parties far more than SEGA because they "were Nintendo." The painstaking localization process of removing anything that Nintendo thought might offend the American public, such as "pub" becoming "cafe" helped pave the way for developers to crave another system to work on.

The Saturn was too much of a mess to develop for, the N64 used cartridges and it was a Nintendo console, so basically Sony couldn't have chosen a better time to enter the market.

N64: 32 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64

PS1: 102 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)

Its funny, I remember everyone having an N64, not a PS1.

alexjonathan41

It's cool to be fashionably late and all, but come on. >_>

I think this is about 9 or 10 years too late to be on SW.