Was Nintendo right to opt out of the graphics arms race?

[Chrkeller]

Leynos said:

Chrkeller said:

Damn good point on loading, I always forget how bad loading was back in the day, since I emulate.  But yeah, that was an advantage.  I do think Nintendo alienated 3rd party with cartridges and effectively repeated with mini disks, but ironically (for me) it doesn't matter.  Their first party output makes their systems worth owning.  

I miss the DC, Skies of Arcadia is still one of my favorite games.  the music is awful on the GC, is that because of mini disks versus GD Rom?  I am not sure I know what GD rom is.  

GD Rom was the disc format used for Dreamcast and NAOMI Arcade boards. NAOMI was a suped up DC. Gigabyte Disc. Proprietary disc. With a capacity of 1GB. More than CD Rom less than DVD and even Gamecube discs by about 400MB. Supposed to combat piracy but was so easily cracked and it was found DC can read CR-Rs the 90 min versions only. Skies on Gamecube even shaved a couple seconds off each cutscene.

Thanks Leynos, never knew any of that.  Pretty interesting.  And makes sense, DC emulation is probably the easiest there is, out of the disk based system.