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Bofferbrauer on 21 June 2015
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artur-fernand said:
Bofferbrauer said:

Even if they had CD/DVD drives, I doubt the sales would have been much better. Playstation was just way too big to compete with the standard weapons and still is outside of US/UK

I think it is pretty safe to assume the N64 would have at least gave the PS1 a run for its money had it used CDs. People say that Nintendo had a pretty terrible relationship with third-parties, so maybe the PS1 would have triumphed still. But take, for example, FFVII. Would it be a PS1 game if the N64 used CDs? We'll never know for sure.

Squaresoft got really pissed at Nintendo due to Secret of Mana being forced to get released on the SNES when it was originally meant to be for the scrapped SNES CD, resulting in a lot of cut content. They were willing to jump ship from day one, so FF VII would have been a PS exclusive anyway. That's also the reason why Nintendo didn't get any game from them anymore until FF: Crystal Cronicles on the Gamecube
, and even that meant a lot of sweettalking from Nintendo to recieve it.