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

[Cobretti2]

bdbdbd said:

Cobretti2 said:

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.

Apparently the base 8GB cart was like 8x the cost of a BluRay. The 32GB and 64GB ones were around the $10-$20 mark above the 8GB. So they all went the cheap 8GB option and make you download the rest of the game. This is costing them game sales.

The reason it is costing them sales is because Nintendo gamers are a different beast. We are collectors of physical games not just gamers. I will not touch a digital game on Nintendo ever so don't expect sales to be better. On PC yes I do because Steam is a service I had for 15 years or so and that shit just works no matter what I upgrade my PC too.