Back when the N64 was out, i was admittedly a Playstation-Fanboy.
That said, even nowadays where i have every console of the current generation, i still think the N64 is a horrible console.
The higher resolution and smoother polygons may be easier on the eyes nowadays compared to what you may see in the dark ages of early 3D, but other than that, i can't really find anything that speaks for the console outside of a small handful of great exclusives.
For one, Nintendo just was really behind the times with going for cartridges than disks. In a way, i'd love modern console tech to go back to something like cartridges, but back then, that meant harder limits on memory, worse sound and higher production costs.
Also, it's obvious that the power of the console was really overstated, resulting in games with horrible draw distances and awful textures. I feel like the expansion some games needed do prove my point.
And then there's the abomination of a controller. If it wouldn't be enough that it handled awful and seemed a mess of very specific use-cases crammed in, there is also the hilariously bad integration of the Memory and Rumble Pak (and you know, the thing where you have to choose one over the other) that makes it even worse. It may have helped to kickstart analogue control sticks, and it is not THE single worst controller of all time, but being so close to it is shameful enough
(also, it kinda seemed like the downfall of good Nintendo Controllers. After the great SNES controller, we have this awful thing, followed by the somewhat idiotic "unconventional for the sake of it" Gamecube Controller, the highly divisive Wii Remote that never seemed to be meant for the "Controller Sideways" configuration many games ask for, and the Wii U Controllers that are almost great, but then mess up with mushy pseudo-triggers, that awful placement of the Sticks and Face Buttons and the issues with compability of three very different Controllers)
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