Would the PlayStation have been a flop?

Would Sega still be making consoles?

Would Microsoft have joined the console wars?

Note: When I mean discs, I mean CDs

Also, how do I add a poll?

It's not a question of discs. It's a question of CDs. The PS1 did well because it doubled as a CD player. No CD player, no difference. I mean, they'd have FF7, but they already had Goldeneye, OoT, Mario Kart 64, and Super Mario 64. One more mega hit wouldn't suddenly have made them sell 100m consoles.

Then playstation brand wouldnt be as big as today. FFVII would get n64 release. But sega was destined to doomed.

They would've routed Sony in that case. Mario 64, Final Fantasy VII/VIII/IX, Dragon Quest VII, GoldenEye, Zelda: OoT, and many EA/Capcom/Konami multiplats?

Game over.

It's the dumbest decision Nintendo's ever made. I get dropping Sony as the CD provider, but Philips was perfectly willing to supply them with CD drives and so were like probably 10 other companies.

To go cart only and then waste years on the 64DD which barely got a release in Japan was in a lot of ways an even worse decision than the Virtual Boy. The Virtual Boy at least you could sweep it under the rug, the N64 cart-CD debacle I honestly think still impacts Nintendo negatively to this day. They were never the same company after that.

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N64 would have sold better and gotten more third party support, so would GameCube (Assuming they keep the normal disk), making Nintendo think that they won't need to make weaker hardware to increase profits, which would have made the Wii more similar to PS360.

Wii wouldn't have sold as well, but Wii U would be in a much better position.

Errrrmmm... no, if Nintendo 64 had become a success, the Wii wouldn't exist.

Reading about the era, it seems Nintendo was kind of ruthless. I think their business practices became a more likeable after their failures.

From what I gathered the cartridge pissed off developers because of cost and they only held from 4MB up to 48MB.

Sony was new to the market yet got the lion share of games.

The problem with CDs at that time was that they scratched easily.

Final Fantasy would have stayed on a Nintendo system for generations to come = a lot more consoles sold.
In turn would probably move a lot of the JRPG genre that gen onto a Ninendo console.
In turn could have put games like GTA and all that on there.

All incredibly hypothetical so very hard to say.