The Nintendo Third Party Dilemma: How we got here and why (from Gaf)

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^ I think the notion of multiple discs for one game is much more palatable than multiple cartridges. Nevertheless, the advantages brought forward by the CD was said to be one of the major reasons third parties gravitated towards the Playstation. Nothing in that section is new, so I wouldn't doubt the other parts the author highlighted in that section. Plus, the author placed a range and 512 was only the upper limit.