And it was of Final Fantasy VI on N64 or something. But it looked better than the PS1 could render.

*Fazz

Yeah. You were right..The CD system was intended to go SNES not n64..Good that you corrected information.

Consoles have always been the way for casual gamers to play high end games with out having to buy an expensive PC or using difficult or complicated interfaces.

The problem, culminating last gen and with HD consoles, was the abandonment of this. Why pay 400-600 for a console when you can buy upgrade your home PC with a gaming card and have a better gaming machine anyway?

N64 and PS1, hmm...

If Nintendo had used similar power plus a CD drive it would have been very expensive. PS1 was already too expensive at launch and then didn't gain popularity until a couple price drops and FFVII, along with Twisted Metal, etc. But the price drop and FF made the console in Japan, and helped it in the states. If N64 had had a CD drive maybe Square (which it still was at the time) wouldn't have switched but probably they would have anyway.

About the third parties, yeah Nintendo wasn't in a position to be friendlier.  ROMs were expensive and the market at the end of the 16bit era wasn't onesided enough to compensate for piracy.  Friendlier and CD would have gone hand in hand.

OOT and SM64 007 and donkey kong 64 is the best nintendo'games even is the best games.

IF the 64 had used CD it would have one becase SquareEnix would have backed it up. End of story.

well im sorta glad nintendo turned Sony down
i mean even though they lost 2 generations
and a grit of 3rd parties, Sony wanted the rights
(or at least, a certain amount of control and royolties)
of Nintendo's IP (aka Mario, Zelda, DK).

Nintendo woud not be as rich as it is today
and there probably would have been no Wii/ DS
so im glad, like others, of how things turned out in
the end. It's now Sony's time to fall...

though i do have to give them mad props
for the PS1/ PS2--they killed the competition!!

The answer is simple : no . Sony would have been relying 90% on 3rd party , while in best case Nintendo would have in ~ 60% . 3rd party developers would have migrated to the PSone even if Nintendo would have been friendlier with them . PC could have secured more exclusives , but again it would have been to late to the party , because Sony would have had more then a year already ...

I blame Power Pad

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