If the N64 had a CD-ROM Drive, would've Nintendo won the generation in sales?

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Cobretti2 said:

zippy said:
It's kinda funny that in the present day Nintendo are topping worldwide sales with a cartridge based system.

And sales would be even stronger if they cut the price of carts to 3rd party developers so they could use bigger sized ones and fit their games.

How come they would be bigger? If I'm expected to pay 60€ for a game, it's really irrelevant whether the publihers are paying 50 cents or one euro for a cartrige. The games cost as much in E-shop than they do on store shelf - not sure if the E-shop sales are better than physical medium, and if they are, I'm sceptical for the reason being the publishers' saving money by not needing to pay for the carts.