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Why the Nintendo 64 Failed #nintendo #nintendo64 #retrogaming
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@alex3107-ps2

9 months ago

N64 has 32,93 million units sold

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@davethibault6734

8 months ago

For the record. While it's true that N64 cartridges could only hold a maximum of 64MB, they were not the standard. Super Smash Bros. only had a 16MB cartridge. Only 3 games ever used the 64MB size cartridge due to how expensive they were to produce: Resident Evil 2, Pokemon Stadium 2 & Conker's Bad Fur Day.

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@Sly88Frye

9 months ago

The Nintendo 64 isn't considered a failure. If the original Xbox is considered a success at 24 million units sold, then the N64 is considered a success at 32 million units sold. If the Sega Genesis is considered a success at 28 million units sold, then yes the N64 is considered a success at 32 million units sold. It wasn't able to succeed against the ps1, but it's still sold a lot and is well loved and well remembered

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@brealistic6377

9 months ago

It's also important to add that Nintendo most likely went this route over piracy concerns. Blank CDs were able to be bought at local retailers. The fact that cartridges were more expensive to produce and not a commercially available product served as protection against illegal distribution. And it worked the PS1 was plagued with piracy issues from mod chips to hot swapping. Every anti piracy measure Sony took was defeated relativity quickly by hackers.

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@Solidier1

9 months ago

I remember the N64 being super popular back in the day. It felt like both the ps1 and N64 were a tie like how Playstation and Xbox are now. That's what I like about gaming. To us we didn't care who sold more, as long as you had fun playing it.

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@SpeedyNinja1152

9 months ago

I think the Nintendo 64 could've sold better if it was backwards compatible with Super NES Games.

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@killergrooves2438

9 months ago

Failure my ass. N64 was hype as fuck. My friends and I with N64s were going ham on 4-player multiplayer games like Goldeneye, Mario Kart, and WCW/NWO Revenge. And then when PS2 dropped and I got that, I had access to all of PS1’s back catalogue for dirt cheap.

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@jasonlevesque6340

9 months ago

The NES was on sale for 10 years, most of which it had no competition.

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@godchi1dvonsteuben770

9 months ago

Did this just say "failed" Yeah, the N64 didn't lead the marketplace, but it wasn't a failure either. Doesn't have to be one or the other, there are successful, non market cornering systems.

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@cblizz730

9 months ago

They can easily make a cartridge system today. 128gb cards are about $14.

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@devanshouse5027

9 months ago

The N64 didn't fail, it sold 32m units. Yes, it got its ass handed to it by the PS1 but it still wasn't a failure.

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@malcolmar

8 months ago

An now we know of a thing called disc rot. I already seen this on one of my original Xbox games while all my N64 carts work perfectly. On top of that, my PS3 for some reason no longer plays PS3 game discs while my N64 continues to function with no issues. So glad the Switch and Switch 2 still use game carts.

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@KKHell

9 months ago

Rare carried the N64

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@e_gamer94

8 months ago

As far as I know, it was the only console which u can connect 4 controllers. Mario Party was really fun.

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@Hexstream

9 months ago

The PlayStation's loading times sucked so much shit, though...

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@Dystnine

9 months ago

Rare did hold it up more. Banjo Kazooie, Diddy Kong Racing.

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@sebastienacke2215

9 months ago

The N64 failed too because it missed Christmas 1995 in Japon & USA (and 1996 in Europe).
Also it lost Squaresoft & Enix.
And it was very hard to program at the beginning (1996/1997), this is why the N64 didn't have enough good games until 1998.

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@datriaxsondor590

9 months ago

Actually, it all happened, with the SNES. They went from around 63% market share, to around 49%, and it was all downhill from there, until the motion control boom of the Wii, which imploded in short order.

Not sure who ever expected the N64 to do well. The writing was on the wall at that time already. Nintendo flubbed the SNES, and the constriction and price of silicon cartridges of the N64 versus CDs, guaranteed their demise in that generation.

The hardware was disgustingly weak in many categories, while Nintendo tried to brag of its power in others.

Overall, the PS1 and Saturn, simply had more variety, more appealing, and cheaper games, on the grand scale.

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@paper_gem

9 months ago

Though the N64 fell short of expectations, it was not a failure. Nintendo sold over 32 million units. Compare this to the Sega Genesis at 30.75 million.

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@Chestrkwll1

9 months ago

N64 was hugely popular because it had the killer game GoldenEye

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