archer9234 on 14 June 2014
| justinian said: From what I gathered the cartridge pissed off developers because of cost and they only held from 4MB up to 48MB. Sony was new to the market yet got the lion share of games. The problem with CDs at that time was that they scratched easily. |
The Carts also introduced very early onboard flash memory. Since it was 1997, that was massivly expensive. Which is why games like Pokemon Stadium was $120 retail. And why they created the memory pak for companies to lower the costs on them. One way, thinking ahead. Another, stupid as hell.
