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Americans overwhelmingly fell for the "muh brand" meme and got Nintendos for their kids not knowing the console literally has no games, it's the only region in the world that bought N64s, not even Japan wanted them, everyone else got PS1s

Sadly America being a nation of opinionated loudmouths also meant they led the gaming discourse for decades, both offline and online, which shaped the current version of game "history", according to which Banjo was a huge success while Croc was an unknown flop, despite both games selling the same amount of copies