Disk space was not the biggest problem thanks to compression, Starcraft 64 and Resident Evil 2 N64 prove that even pre-rendered backgrounds and full motion video was possible on the N64.

The biggest problem was production costs, CDs were cheap to produce and you didn't need to invest millions of dollars to produce a game without knowing if it will be a success or not. N64 cartridges were highly expensive and a major risk on the other hand. If the game didn't sell too well the developer / publisher would have made a much bigger loss and much larger sales numbers were needed in order to be profitable.

With games like Final Fantasy 64 and Dragon Quest 64, on the SNES CD drive made by Sony, the Playstation would not have come to existence.

We should be happy the PlayStation is here now.

There is much more variation in the console market with more then one console.

The more consoles you have the more competition there is

And competition is a good thing for consumers.

The Carts also introduced very early onboard flash memory. Since it was 1997, that was massivly expensive. Which is why games like Pokemon Stadium was $120 retail. And why they created the memory pak for companies to lower the costs on them. One way, thinking ahead. Another, stupid as hell.

What the hell. How could the PS1 have been a flop when it was already above 20 million while the N64 had 0 consoles sold? The N64 didnt flop because it used cartridges, it failed because the PS1 was so dominant.

Pretty sure your numbers are off there. Playstation had a pretty slow start. 

That's exactly what I meant.

The thing was also expensive to program.

The opinion of the chief hardware guy should also be taken into account and he admitted that there were many mistakes made with the hardware design of the N64.

Totally. The damn carts all have metal RF shields and fancy plastic end covers for the cart connector hole from dust getting inside. rediculess to have all that stuff in a cartrage. The designers went with the "Porche" factor, VS consumer friendly.

Probably Nintendo 64 had been a good console instead.

LMAO no ,juts no leabve it to nintendo fans to once again proclaim nintendo god and sony only doing well because nintendo messed up. Sony had jhuge third party support would still have done very well.

All these FF "masterpieces" like FFVIII and FFXIII would also be on Nintendo systems!