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7469190 No.7469190 [Reply] [Original]

Why couldn't Americans develop for N64? It's just Japan/England. There's like one game in the top 20 games for it that's from USA (rogue squadron)

>> No.7469202

they were busy with the playstation

>> No.7469214

Rocket: Robot on Wheels wasn't that popular, but it's a very well made game. Was made by Sucker Punch, an American studio.
There's also Turok, maybe has mixed opinions, but I liked it well enough.

>> No.7469217

>>7469190
If anything, there was too much western support on the N64 and not enough Japanese. Outside of the games developed by Nintendo, Konami, Treasure and Hudson, every N64 game was made by a baka gaijin company.

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>>7469214
>Rocket: Robot on Wheels
I've fucking never heard of this in my life and I read the god damn magazines every month scouring every page for every single preview

>> No.7469301

>>7469190
brits were used to developing on insane autistic hardware because of all their TV computers.

>> No.7469417

Acclaim, THQ, Midway and EA Sports published a few American games. Apart from EA, all those games were developed by independent studios (they'd be acquired by the big shots later).

>> No.7469514

>>7469284
It was published by Ubi Soft and released one week before Rayman 2. Obviously they spent all their marketing budget on their own baby instead of a game made by some American nobodies.

>> No.7469524

>>7469190
64 was too niche of a market to dedicate the resources to and it couldn't be paired easily with a PS1 version. The 64 leaned heavily on Nintendo/Rare enthusiasm so the interest wasn't really there to break into that market.

>> No.7469527

>>7469190
They could develop for the N64, it's just Americans aren't very good game developers. I think they made some fun games on the N64 like Rampage but nothing to write home about.

>> No.7469542

>>7469301
Made me chuckle....but its probably true

>> No.7469543

>>7469527
The American's were best on the PC market. Very few noteworthy American console games during the 5th gen.

>> No.7469567

>>7469527
Americans are good game developers, they just didn't make anything original for this system because they were doing PS1 and PC instead. I guess you could call Doom 64 as an "original" N64 game? Doom was kinda old in 1997 though.

>>7469543
Crash, Spyro, Abe's Oddysee, Tony Hawk, etc disagrees with you. You're right that most of the best games were on PC though, since PC is the master race.

>> No.7469568

>>7469543
I think the noteworthy have been discussed thoroughly enough to the point we can ponder on the paths not taken instead, so lets forget about them for now and focus on the subject at hand.

>> No.7469606

>>7469567
Yes I said "very few". The number of influential American console games was quite small.

>> No.7469616

>>7469190
When you stand to make less money per unit and with porting to it being a gigantic pain in the ass why even bother supporting the console in a distant second place?

>> No.7469814

>>7469190

Sony pursued developers really hard and stole many away to the PS1. Nintendo didn't have quite the iron grip in the US and so Sony was successful at getting many of them to move over.

>> No.7469871

>>7469527
Americans are just bad at everything

>> No.7470208

>>7469284
it's a n64 game with an actual physics subsystem

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7470247

lmfao Rare was american, dumbass

>> No.7470252

>>7470247
No retard they're British.

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>>7470252
Once Microsoft buys you, you're american. India will be a state by 2043

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>> No.7471039

>>7469190
>American
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_5
They're Germans who temp moved for work, and now they're back in Germany.

>> No.7471925

>>7470259
So they weren't American for any point relevant in this discussion.

>> No.7471980

>>7471925
British devs should count, they're as Anglo as the USA, seeing as they founded it and all.

>> No.7472705

>>7471980
The Bri'ish and the Americans have very divergent cultures from the American Revolution onward. Especially for 90's popculture. There's a reason companies like Rare were so distinct in those days.

>> No.7472728

>>7469284
It's the second best collectathon of that entire generation behind Mario, very well regarded cult classic game.

>> No.7472730

>>7472705
>Especially for 90's popculture
This. Fucking Bongs actually listened to goddamn Oasis, how embarrassing.

>> No.7472816

>>7472728
>mario is a collectathon
fuck right off

>> No.7472828

>>7469190
Honest answer is that aside from Iguana, almost any American video game company that was interested in making 3D games was already doing so on the PC.

>> No.7472832

>>7472816
Mario 64 literally invented the fucking genre.

>> No.7472942

>>7469190
Japan didn't even like developing for the N64 because of the retarded controller

>> No.7472946

>>7472942
You just ignore the left handle entirely

>> No.7472997

>>7472942
Japan didn't like developing for N64 because aside from Sega, basically zero Japanese developers period had experience making 3D video games and coding actually complex games.

>> No.7473012

>>7472942
Also because Japs are better at designing 2D games than 3D, whilst the inverse is true for White people.

>> No.7473035

N64 has 2 games and neither one is British

>> No.7473056
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>>7473035
And those 2 are Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon and Goemon's Great Adventure.

>> No.7473093

>>7472832
that's like saying doom invented looter shooters. no, some faggot came and added that focus

>> No.7473547

>>7472832
Mario is an open ended object driven game. The only collectibles are coins and red coins. Stars are goal posts.

>> No.7473557

>>7469202
And they weren't too good on that either

>> No.7473558

>>7473012
Yeah but they got pretty good at it eventually, surpassing even Westerners in all genres not dominated by keyboard and mouse.

>> No.7475131

>>7469190
>There's like one game in the top 20 games for it that's from USA (rogue squadron)
>Rogue Squadron
>USA

Anon...