Alternate history: N64 goes with CDs instead of cartridges

[SanAndreasX]

I'd like to add another factor in support of a CD N64 beating the PS1: Dragon Quest VII. Had Nintendo gone with CDs, Enix would not have jumped ship. Dragon Quest VII came out so late in the life of the PS1 in part because of multiple platform changes, although the massive amount of dialogue they had to write for it didn't help either. It started out on SNES, then went to N64, then to PS1. It would have likely launched much sooner without the change to PS1, and would have done so on N64. Enix may have actually had time to make a Dragon Quest VIII on N64 before the generation ended. If that had happened, it would have been a curb-stomp fight.