HoloDust on 14 August 2019
| KungKras said: Nintendo would have won. But it would come at the price of the open worlds in Super Mario 64 and Zelda OoT, which would have been impossible without the fast access speed of cartridges. |
Driver 1, GTA precursor on PS1...not sure if it used streaming from CD, but it had big open world.
| curl-6 said: Crazy how this one simple change of format for a single system could potentially have so massively changed the course of gaming over the last two decades. It's like the butterfly effect. |
I don't think it's a simple matter of format, but the business desicions that lead to Nintendo going with CD.
IMO, it would mean they've recognized problems 3rd parties had with them and their draconian policies - and that would be much more important for future relationships and hardware design philosophy, potentially giving us Nintendo that has strong footing in what is current PS/Xbox market...if Xbox even exists in that timeline.
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