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People often cite cartridges as the main reason the N64 sold poorly in comparison to the Playstation, but in reality it was that Nintendo alienated most third party developers. Activision (probably) stated that the consoles needed to be $200 in 2 years because they believe both systems have to hit that price in order to sell well enough to justfiy game development.