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jarrod on 12 February 2011
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RolStoppable said:
jarrod said:

I love Sega dearly, but they couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag.  More and more, I think Genesis was simply a fluke.  Also, how well do you really think a cart only Saturn would've done with $60 games and a fraction the 3rd party support?

Oh, I get it. So your argument is that CDs would have been more beneficial than cartridges in either case. I suppose I can't disagree with that.

But then again, the question if Nintendo had stomped Sony still remains and I believe it needs to be answered with a "no", simply because Nintendo had problems that went way beyond sticking with cartridges.

Carts were the straw that broke the camel's back.  Sure, there were other issues (there always are) but the financial roadblocks that mask-ROM brought are specifically what kept N64 from inheriting SFC's development priority.  A CD-ROM based N64 would've gotten FFVII, DQVII and probably about every major 3rd party game, no question.

If not for that, the support and software lineup you saw on PS1 would've looked a lot like the support and software lineup you saw for Saturn.  Only with a weaker 1st party side of things.