| The_Liquid_Laser said: Nintendo would have won with a CD-Rom. Playstation was not selling well until it got Final Fantasy 7. It was doing ok, but not nearly well enough to beat Nintendo. The main third parties that didn't like Nintendo were Western devs like EA, but Western devs were not that important during the Gen 5 era. Plenty of third party games still ended up on the Gameboy. This idea that devs wanted to flee Nintendo is extremely overstated. There was no mass exodus from Nintendo handhelds. The main reason why third parties switched on home systems was 1) CD's were a much better format and 2) Playstation was selling well after FF7 ended up on it. If Nintendo has CDs and FF7, then Playstation doesn't do nearly as well. |
Nah. The PlayStation had demolished the Saturn on launch, and had loads of third party titles coming up. The positive relationship Sony carved with developers back then was unlike anything ever seen in the industry. I'd say even now Nintendo hasn't quite climbed to the standard set back in 1994.
Besides, you can bet there would have been some uniquely Nintendesque BS if they had opted for CDs instead. Like having to buy a million units of their proprietary kid-proof plastic or something.
