What if the Nintendo 64 used discs instead of cartridges?

[justinian]

fluky-nintendy said:

justinian said:

fluky-nintendy said:

Considering that the  standard CD was around since the 1980s it seems very unlikely that the disc being developed for them by Sony was the standard everyday CD ROM that can be read by any simple CD reader. It is very likely it would have been proprietary like on the GC, Wii and Wii U. That takes piracy out of the equation.

Sony has always tied in entertainment with their consoles so using the standard CD on the playstation made sense. Seeing they helped develop the CD disc anyway it made sense to use their own product.

I think Nintendo, as you'd expect from a company that was on top for 2 consecutive generations, was overconfident and overestimated the power of a CD based hardware since their formula worked so well. But whatever happened for Nintendo to discard a disk based console really showed they had a narrow vision, not very different from today's Ninty.

You can say they are narrow on focus but to me they are a stubborn company. Donkey Kong sums them up. He was designed to be a stubborn character and maybe a reflection of themselves.

Actually Miyamoto said they considered calling him "Mule Kong" but that didn't quite sound right.

Being stubborn can be genius or madness.