personal hot take the n64 was garbo even if it had some good games

just... that controller was horrid. I found it utterly unusable no matter what I did.
and cartridges were probably a cost saving measure in terms of development and construction and also part of ninty's ethos which I'm sure they still had at the time of using "obsolete" or "out-dated" components but in such a way as to compete with the more bleeding edge tech by just being reliable and good, but... eeeehhhhhhh.....

the cart's weren't any cheaper for the consumer,... and again that damn controller holy fuck. I hated the N64 controller so much. There were loads of games on it I wanted to play like so damn many but... that controller was just... nope. couldn't do it. could not get my head or hands around that damn batarang.

and don't get me wrong I love cartridge systems I love how they feel and sound going in but dang those were pricy friggin things. My little brother had a PS1 at the time and... heck that had wipeout 2097 like how can n64 compete with that??

sure it had 64 bit but... honestly it didn't look much prettier than the 32bit PS1.

...at least it wasn't the saturn tho. poor thing :/

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@Nine the N64 was significantly more powerful in terms of raw component specs but all the components were connected up such that they had to take turns accessing a single bank of memory which badly damaged the systems ability to do anything well

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