interesting to think how the 64DD might have actually gotten more traction (and carried the N64 through a longer market lifetime) if Nintendo had premiered it in the United States, where the N64 was popular early on and waned because of its insistence on cartridges, rather than in Japan where it was much more strongly overshadowed by the PS1
i wonder if we would have gotten a final fantasy vii 64dd port...
@Felthry the way i recall it, ffvii ended up moving to the playstation at least in large part because the disc format allowed square to tell a far longer story with more detailed scenes than if they were limited to cartridges
@typhlosion hmm, perhaps the disagreement came later then
@Felthry well, i could be wrong! i don't really have sources to cite on that
@Felthry @typhlosion From what I understand, the reason for VII was primarily space as stated, but a lot of developers during the SNES/N64 era also had a problem with how much Nintendo charged in licensing costs for cartridge production. CDs were much, much cheaper to produce, and Sony passed a lot of those savings on.
@typhlosion weren't vii+ on playstation because of a disagreement between square and nintendo, though?