“I can’t deny the fact that the PlayStation is selling well around the world.”.
While the Nintendo 64 managed to secure a second-place position in the console wars in the West, it was a slightly different story in Japan.
According to Nintendo’s own figures, the console only managed to shift 5,540,000 units in the region, with other sales numbers collected on Wikipedia pointing to the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn being the more dominant consoles on the market. The reasons given for this typically refer to the quality of the games released for those other machines as well as the N64’s lackluster third-party support — which came about, in part, due to the console deciding to stick with expensive cartridges instead of a significantly cheaper media format like CD-ROMs.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“I can’t deny the fact that the PlayStation is selling well around the world.”.
While the Nintendo 64 managed to secure a second-place position in the console wars in the West, it was a slightly different story in Japan.
According to Nintendo’s own figures, the console only managed to shift 5,540,000 units in the region, with other sales numbers collected on Wikipedia pointing to the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn being the more dominant consoles on the market. The reasons given for this typically refer to the quality of the games released for those other machines as well as the N64’s lackluster third-party support — which came about, in part, due to the console deciding to stick with expensive cartridges instead of a significantly cheaper media format like CD-ROMs.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
