quiet as kept that was a god awful system outside of the nintendo games. but what else is new
I'm a Nintendohead, but it's hard to disagree with you. Nintendo ethered themselves badly by going back on their deal with Sony in addition to sticking with cartridges instead over CD-based games in the 90s.
Mario 64 and the Zeldas are still piff to this day but most of those other N64 games aged poorly and honestly don't hold up to FF7, Metal Gear Solid, FF9, FF Tactics, Tekken 3, Mega Man X4, Symphony of the Night, and the Resident Evil games.
I still maintain that the SNES was Nintendo's GOAT system hands-down.