Fourth generation of video game consoles
Nintendo executives were initially reluctant to design a new system, but as the market transitioned to the newer hardware, Nintendo saw the erosion of the commanding market share it had built up with the Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo's fourth-generation console, the Super Famicom, was released in Japan on November 21, 1990; Nintendo's initial shipment of 300,000 units sold out within hours. The machine reached North America as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System on August 23, 1991, and Europe and Australia in April 1992.
List of Nintendo 64 games
Of the console's 389 official releases, 196 are region-locked to Japan, 296 to North America, and 242 to Europe. The Nintendo 64 was first launched in Japan on June 23, 1996 with "Super Mario 64", "Pilotwings 64", and "Saikyō Habu Shōgi"; in North America with "Super Mario 64" and "Pilotwings 64"; and in Europe with "Super Mario 64", "Pilotwings 64", "", and "". The last game to be published for the system was the North American-locked "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3" on August 20, 2002. The best-selling game is "Super Mario 64" with 11 million units . Regardless of the higher cost of cartridge production and of continued criticism over releasing a cartridge-based system, the total unit sales of Nintendo 64 software has exceeded the total unit sales of Nintendo GameCube software. The Nintendo 64 library is to date the smallest overall library of game titles on a Nintendo home console.