DMeisterJ on 07 August 2008
I don't understand this at all.
All of these excuses could have been used in the jump from Cartridges to CD.
Whether or not the industry or developers were "ready" is irrelevant. Innovation waits for no one.
If it were up to Nintendo, we'd still be using cartridges. Good thing that Sony/Saturn pushed CD technology onto developers. Look at the DS, we're in 2008 and it's still on cartridges (and doing awesome I might add). Does anyone think that DS2 or whatever will be CD Based? No. But if PSP had won, we'd definitely be seeing a disc version of a Nintendo handheld.
Nintendo is very happy taking safe bets and doing well in that, and the Wii is really the only departure from that.
