/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9497734
OK. Here's one for North America, a comparison of top selling games for N64 vs PSX. Interesting chart, since it confirms the popular opinion that "N64 didn't have that many games, but the few ones that were big were truly huge". Also perhaps explains the perception that N64 was bigger than PSX that some people have.
However, this also went the other way: PSX had 50+ games that sold 1 million copies or more in North America, while N64 had less than 30. And if you look at the world totals, it's even more drastic: PSX had 122 games that sold over a million, N64 had 46.
Also, I think it underscores just how big of a blow it was that GC never got any real successor to Goldeneye. It was their single biggest game that wasn't Zelda / Mario / etc.
For world totals, you can check these pages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStation_video_games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_64_video_games

>>8535083
here's an NPD data on game sales in US for both platforms.
the top 3 N64 games (SM64 - Goldeneye - MK64) outsold the top PSX games by a far margin, but there is also a noticeable skew in the sales towards the big games. it's like everyone with N64 had the same few games.
rest of positions clearly shows that PS titles outsold N64 ones, on average by about 2:1 margin, which goes in line with PS selling twice as many units as N64 in US.
so you can fuck off with that "glorified CD player" meme.