Nintendo What-If?

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zero129 said:

No i dont.

Sega like i said made mistakes. The Sega CD (Ok they could of got away with this one). And the 32x should of never been released, after they where and didnt get much support people lost some fait with sega.

Then Saturn getting rushed to market being super hard to program for (And i pretty sure it was expensive on release?) also didnt help them.

Nintendo didnt have them problems going into the N64 era.

Nintendo then is like Sony now, people where willing to wait for the N64 and it showed by being one of the fastest selling consoles ever on launch (At the time anyway).

But thanks to Nintendo not using CD and being hard to develope for (Im sure if they went with a cd formate devs would of put up with the hard development just like PS2/3) meant Nintendo lost many 3rd partys to the much easier to develope for and the gaining traction of the PS1.

A new king had entered and just done everything right well their competitiors fucked up.

But this should be a word of warning to show you can never be too big too fall, and sometimes the bigger you are the harder the fall.

Yes, Sony did things right at a time the competitors didn't. But this is just throwing words around without digging into the reasons. Sega had too close releases of too many devices, and because of them wanting to be first in the market, Saturn released with no games - but this isn't something you could not fix.

Saturn was hard to program because it was intended to be only a 2D capable console, so Sega made a quick solution and added another set of same hardware in Saturn in order to have enough power to render 3D (if I recall). What made it hard to program, was you needed to program two threads in order to optimise the hardware. Not only was Saturn expensive, so was Playstation.

You keep pointing out, that the developers are willing to put up hard development (=expensive) when there's money to be made - which is my point excactly when talking about cartridges, because all they add is expenses. Sony had developers on board because Sony had the least standards, so it was relatively easy to get on board.