Yes, but those who had it were so desperate to play games on it, so whenever a new game came out they bought it and played the hell out of it... Now they have so much of their childhood memories riding on this that they developed Stockholm syndrome for the machine and the few games it had.
I had one, unfortunately I also had a PS1 and a decent PC back then... so it mostly gathered dust until I could re-sell the machine to a collector as "like new", I had Zelda OOT/Majora's mask + Mario 64... I played Mario a bit, and Zelda OOT until the water castle, I played Majora's mask until I noticed it restarted every few minutes or so... put everything back in their boxes and carried it around for years. One of the worst consoles I ever owned.