Was the Nintendo 64 the "rich kid's console"?
who cares
>>12756792Probably OP. I also do not care though.
>>12756792bodied that freak
>>12756784rich countries console, ask any nintendo hater where their from and laugh at the squalor they exist in.
I can only speak for the two canadian towns I lived in but you would usually see the more well off kids playing 64 and trailer dweller and poors were still playing sega, usually making the jump to playstation very late in it's lifecycle.Next gen if someone had a gamecube they likely also had ps2 and/or xbox but sony households only had ps2.
>>12756816WTF, dude?!
>>12756784It was popular with kids being the latest thing, sports kids liked it but I recall older teenagers strongly preferring sports games on playstation and then dreamcast. 64 was also popular with wrestling kids. -t. '92 kid
Look at Richie Rich with $200 to spare.
>>12756792You do, for posting.
Not sure about countries like USA, but in general yeah and the simple reason is, piracy for N64 was almost impossible to find, while piracy for PS1 was common and what was actually hard to find in some countries were the official PS1 games. I'm in a latin american country and I think the first time I saw an original PS1 game was in like 2001. And I was always a nerd who knew all of the niche video game stores and big stores back in the 90s.Same with SNES, although SNES piracy was a lot more common than N64, but again, Genesis was like all bootleg/piracy, also don't really remember ever seeing an original Genesis game being sold here, whereas Nintendo had official distributors.
>>12756792OP btfo
>>12756869nobody in America pirated back then, that's third world shit. it's like dumpster diving; sure you CAN do it and you can argue it doesn't hurt anybody, but any self-respecting middle class white wouldn't dare subject themselves to the shame of doing something like that. it's peak miser/desperate-for-every-penny shit.
>>12757051Piracy was widespread for home computers, you fucking cerebral palsy larper.
>>12756792fpbp hope OP hangs himself
>>12756816/thread
>>12756784No.
>>12757051As I said, it wasn't a choice.If you wanted an original Genesis or PS1 game here, maybe good luck having a relative traveling to USA and buying you some games, otherwise local video clubs sold bootleg games for $5 a piece
>>12757081You’re confusing price with the demographic that the N64 is associated with, which is white upper middle class kids.
>>12757106My poor ass slav (not white) friend had an N64 so I don't think so.
>>12757054maybe 10% of the US population had computers with internet access, and maybe 10% of them pirated with any regularity. you're unironically parroting the arguments the media industry used to justify shilling for the shutdown of limewire and the creation of the DMCA act, you double faggot windowlicker.
>>12757118>you need internet to be a piratelovingeverylaugh
>>12757118This is especially true during the prime N64 years (1996-2000). That was still overwhelmingly the dialup internet era. As far as PC gaming goes, that was back when shareware was a big thing.
>>12757118Things like this give away the generational gap
>>12757123Okay, walk us through how you would’ve pirated a PC game in 1997.
>>12757137From your fucking friend. Either with games which simply didn't have any copy protection, or games which had copy protection but which was broken, and which was then distributed physically through cheap copies, which had cheap copies made just the same.Lots of people without any internet connection at all accessed plenty of pirated content which just made its way around physically, Wizard Works alone basically made a whole business model out scraping the web for content they didn't down and then resold it as compilations. People basically did the same on an individual level. Get a crack of a game, then make cheap copies to sell to people for a bargain.
>>12757148Okay, but if you’re buying or getting it for free from someone else, you’re not the one doing the pirating. This >>12757123 post was poorly worded.
>>12756784No one will believe me, but the richest kids I knew (parents owned a bunch of car dealerships) actually had a Saturn and Playstation. They had the Saturn first and when it didn't catch on they switched to the Playstation, and the Saturn ended up at their vacation house. Speaking of which, I also visited the vacation house of like a state senator or something and they had an N64 in the game room with the pool table. I don't know if that means anything.
>>12756784Not in the slightest.In the 1990s there never really was any such things with the exception of the Neo Geo.Poor people were bad with money and would spend on frivolous things like video game systems. The first waves of people I knew who had PlayStations were all poor and probably shouldn't have spent that money. The only person I ever knew who had a CD-I had a poop bin in the bathroom because their toilet wouldn't flush paper.
>>127570813do wasn't a rich kid's console because it wasn't a kid's console at all. The great majority of sales were to the college and older male demographic.
>>12757137Copy that floppy.
>>12756784Not exclusively. Rich kids would have both PSX and N64.Severe autists, whose middle class parents had focused on their careers and waited too long to have a kid, would only have an N64 because it's all those spastics wanted.
>>12756792who cares
>>12756869>SNES piracyWhay the heck. How do you pirate a cartridge?
>>12756784If they just owned 1 contemporary gen console instead of all of them they are lower-middle class at best in any country (nevermind being a game rentoid) which is the financial equivalent of calling yourself an expat instead of an immigrant. They were poor.
>>12757535Same as Genesis piracy: bootleg carts. Usually came from Asia.SNES bootleg carts mostly came in SFC style shells (but they had the 2 ranuresnthat let you out the cart on an american SNES), though there were also some bootlegs with the american style cart shells as well, less common though.The early 90s SNES bootleg games were good quality too, and came with manual and everything - not as good quality as the japanese originals, but still good.Thanks to piracy a lot of Japan only games were available outside of Japan back in the 90s too
They didn't even have internet until the 2000s, uncs
>>12757051Original games in my shithole were half of a minimum wage. Sorry for choosing to have fun with vidya instead of adhering to your dumb morality.
>>12756792FippybippyConsole wars ended before you were even born kid. Get your own culture.
>>12756784It's the one that makes poorfaggots seethe, yes.
>>12756824>Next gen if someone had a gamecube they likely also had ps2 and/or xbox but sony households only had ps2.Probably because the shitcube had no games. I only got one when they were $99.
I had a PSX, N64, and a Saturn as a kid and I certainly don't feel rich. My dad was a firefighter and my mom was a home maker.
>>12756784No. Most kids had one in the USA. Like others said if you had both it and Playstation you were closer to a rich kid
>>12756784>Sony PlayStation introductory price: $299>Sega Saturn introductory price: $399.99>Nintendo 64 introductory price: $199
>>12756792
>>12756784>Was the Nintendo 64 the "rich kid's console"?I had one back in 1997. I’m Mexican, living in Mexico, with Mexican parents with a Mexican income.Fuck off.
>>12756784Launched for $199, less than the ps1
>>12758275>>12758536Now compare the game prices.
>>12756784Console Launch Prices & Inflation EquivalentsSega Genesis (1989)Launch Price: $189.99Inflation-Adjusted: ~$475Super Nintendo / SNES (1991)Launch Price: $199.95Inflation-Adjusted: ~$455PlayStation 1 / PS1 (1995)Launch Price: $299.00Inflation-Adjusted: ~$610Nintendo 64 / N64 (1996)Launch Price: $199.99Inflation-Adjusted: ~$395Nintendo GameCube (2001)Launch Price: $199.99Inflation-Adjusted: ~$350PlayStation 2 / PS2 (2000)Launch Price: $299.00Inflation-Adjusted: ~$540The cartridge connector was less expensive to manufacture than a CD-ROM drive. Nintendo has consistently hit bargain prices for their console hardware. The games, on the other hand, have always been overpriced compared to competitors.
>>12758540In that case, is the switch the rich kid's console? Nintendo charges $60 for 10 year old games.
>>12758540N64 kids usually owned fewer games and just rented from hollywood video
>>12758536When it came out the ps1 was cheaper.
>>12758561
RPGs are the poverty genre, so just go by that.
No, and >>12756792
>>12756784That was the Neo Geo. You'd know that if you weren't LARPing as a retro gamer.
>>12758770braindead
>>12756784In the 90s you’re wealth was based on if you could get a new release not if you had Sony or Nintendo systems
>>12756784Naw, it was the BITCH kid's console
>>12758556You definitely had to be a rich to keep up with the amount of good games being released for the PS1.Meanwhile, the N64 was the rental game console, because many games weren't worth buying and the renting movies and games on weekends culture was at its peak. The N64 definitely was, on average, the most poorfag friendly console.
>>12756784Yeah. The PS1 and PS2 are inextricably tied to bonglish chav types in my mind. I always picture stacks of pirated discs with the titles written in sharpie and cigarettes ash all over.
>>12756784It was definitely more middle class than the ps1 prole console
>>12757137>Okay, walk us through how you would’ve pirated a PC game in 1997.In the UK at least, probably half or more kids than had a PS1 got it chipped from someone through word of mouth or at an independent PC shop. Pirate games were sold again through word of mouth, computer fairs or car boot sales.
>>12757153I was pirating DOS games in the early 90's pre-Internet by just copying the floppy discs, later Windows 9x games with my CD writer
>>12756784>280 million people>70 million of them children>20 million consoles sold, most to parents of children>roughly 2 in 3 households with children would have had oneIt was a most-kids console, only beaten by the most-everyone PS1.
>>12758540>Now compare the game prices.People rented games in the 90s. I had an N64 at launched and owned a total of 3 games in its entire half decade of relevance. Very few N64 games were worth owning except 4 player games.
Some of these comments are blowing my mind, I always thought the N64 was a poor kid console. >>12757051lmao my mom thought my uncle bringing over pirated dreamcast games would give us a "virus" with no explanation. >>12756784It's tough to exactly remember, but in small town Canada, the PS was the rich kid console. The N64 was the poor kid console. >PS1 USD MSRP $299 USD>N64 USD MSRP $199 USDAt least up here, the PS was always the rich kid console. >be me, poor canada fag>get N64 near launch>already have NES, SNES, Genesis. >Get a PS1 for Christmas in like 2001
>>12759518I owned twenty
I was born in 91 and I've never rented a video game or movie.I had an N64 and then I got a PS1 when Crash 3 launched.
>>12759593I had: Goldeneye, Mario, Zelda OoT, Blast Corps, Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong, Body Harvest, GASP Fighters Nextreme, Diddy Kong Racing, Mystical Ninja, Rayman, Vigilante 8, International Superstar Soccer. Goldeneye came with the console, and I bought Zelda from second hand from a mail order company. No idea where the rest of the games came from.
>6.83 ratiopoor kid console
>>12759659What the fuck does this even mean.
>>12759782it means nothing
>>12756784Retarded question, both of these systems at 299 and 150 are both completely accessible to the American middle class.>>12757051I knew a guy who bought a fairly new mustang buy selling bootleg ps1 games and installing mod chips
>>12759782Game to console ratio. You can see that in the 80s and 90s people owned far less games per console than the modern era. N64 owners had the fewest games.
>>12761263>You can see that in the 80s and 90s people owned far less games per console than the modern era.But they played more and had actual good games.
>>12761265yea rental culture exposed people to a ton of games, every weekend was a new game to try out.
