Alternate history: N64 goes with CDs instead of cartridges

[SammyGiireal]

DonFerrari said:

SammyGiireal said:

Nintendo was tyrannic with 3rd partied. However, sales usually dictate whether third parties will support or by pass a system. A CD based N64 wouldn't have lost momentum, and would have had third party support from the get go as ridiculous yet highly expensive cartridge prices ( third parties had to invest 1 million dollars in order to get 100,000 cartridges *Those were the rates if I am not mistaken* making the N64 a very risky proposition) would have been a non factor.

The point is exactly that, that Nintendo being a tyrant lead they to look for other alternatives, and they found Sony. CD or not CD they would have flocked to the better business partner so it would be likely that the fate of N64 would be still selling less than SNES instead of over 80M as some have estimated.

Hey it's alternate history...so any outcome is possible. The N64 was too powerful a machine, and it had too good of a start for it to crash like it did if Nintendo had gone with the CD format. We would have seen FFVII on the N64, Konami might have done MGS on the N64 as it had better hardware to power up the game. Gran Turismo still would have been a hit for Sony, but it would have been close race.