Comparison of 1996 game and console prices to today.

[Mr_No]

AZWification said:

Mr_No said:

Most likely they had no choice since the cartridges were much more expensive to make than CD's. Now, I still understand your point because they allegedly charged 70 to 90 bucks for a game, while the PS1 games stayed at 40, sometimes 50 bucks.

But why did Nintendo have to go with cartridges in the first place? That affected them negatively A LOT during the 5th gen.. :-/

Beats me. I believe it was for the fast cache access for the textures or the superior 3D graphics. I don't have it very clear. While CDs were cheap to make, it couldn't make graphics be as good as the N64. Although, the CD sound quality was far, far superior than on the cartdridges. Still, the high price of certain games wasn't worth it.