invetedlotus123 on 26 September 2015
| TheWPCTraveler said: Because you could effectively upgrade the hardware with cartridges? I mean, the most effective argument for cartridges, ever, has not been mentioned when once in this thread. Think about Starfox, about various Mode 7 titles on the Super Nintendo/Famicom. I mean, I'd think that the Expansion Pak would've been more effective had Nintendo found a way for it to fit within the cartridge itself. |
But that also driven-up production costs of the cartridges itself to the roof. And really, with more capable systems this is hardly a worry to be able to upgrade specs mid-cycle, PS1 had power enough to deliver great games til early 2000`s. The space limitations were limiting developers much more than the spec limitation actually, Chrono Trigger was a miracle that almost didn`t happen for SNES because of lack of space. I still don`t know how they could fit RE2 two discs into one cartridge...
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