The Connections Project

Nintendo 64

In a very real sense, the N64 was the last recognizable descendant of the NES in the Nintendo portfolio: the next creation would be the Wii, which was a radical departure from the whole formula.

Just as SNES doubled the number of bits of the NES, the N64 doubled it again, hence the name. The N64 is basically a souped-up SNES: all 'round tech improvements but no really revolutionary innovation.

The PSX and the N64 were sister consoles, coming out roughly the same time and competing head-to-head for the market. Objectively, the Playstation won hands down. It eschewed the classic cartridge storage for games and was the first major console to use CDs. The increased load times and necessity of memory cards this created was more than made up for by the huge advantage in sheer space the PSX developers had to work with. The disk-and-memory-card combination even allowed multiple-disk games like FF7; there was no hypothetical limit at all on how much content could be put in a single Playstation Game, as long as enough disks were made. By contrast, N64 developers had relatively little space to work with. Besides that, titles for the N64 tended to be somehow more "cartoony" than their competition on the PSX.