darklich13 on 28 February 2008
| famousringo said: @darklich Nintendo tried to control shovelware in previous generations, and it's considered one of the reasons the big N fell from market supremacy. Giving third parties the freedom to do what they want (even if the result is crap) is one of the reasons credited for the ascendance of the Playstation. |
One of the reasons, but not the biggest. The N64 was beat by the PS1 because Nintendo stuck with the cartridge format. Many developers did not want to continue with the cart because of the cost. CD is much cheeper to produce and holds way more information. If the N64 was CD based, we would have seen Final Fantasy VII on N64 and the PS1 probably would have failed.
