/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5770667
>muh Nintendo is conservative with cartridges
It is false and true at the same time.
The reason why Nintendo had agreed to partner with Sony was for the quality of its CD player.
Because the first player (Sega-CD, PC-Engine CD etc ...) were very long to load, and that Yamauchi did not want it.
But Sony are the first to use RAM to halve the load time, enough to convince Yamauchi to switch to the CD and make the Snes Play Station.
And so Sony could have been the CD player provider for future Nintendo, as is Yamaha with Sega or as is Samsung for Xbox.
So who else besides Sony can provide a CD player as powerful ??
Nobody.

Since Nintendo got closer to Philips, but it did not give anything since the Philips player was as slow as the others (Sega CD etc ...).
Did you see the loading times of Philips CD-I games? Can you imagine that on N64 ??
so Nintendo was forced to go back to the cartridges.

After the only question was why not make N64 directly with Disk Zip 64DD (and Famicom Disk)?
They already had the technology.

>>4143973
>why didnt nintendo just make this the standard format? or maybe even COMPACT DISCS?

For the CD I think the problem comes from the fact that some manufacturer had an exclusive contract with other brands like Sega, Snk or Nec. Then what decided Nintendo to do the Snes Play-Station was that the player of Sony was more powerful than the competition whereas the drive of Philips was still very slow. For the 64DD it is clear that Nintendo made a mistake, their floppy Zip was developed at the same time as the N64 in addition !!

>>2178930
I think this answers your question.