Not Even Squaresoft Could Convince Nintendo To Use Discs For The N64

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Not Even Squaresoft Could Convince Nintendo To Use Discs For The N64

Our way or the Royal Raceway - When Sony launched the PS1 in 1994, Nintendo suffered one of its biggest losses when Squaresoft, a company that previously bec...

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A news story that will be curious for Nintendo 64 fans. In particular, we seem to have new statements about this classic console. You know that with N64 Nintendo decided to continue using cartridges instead of CDs. However, it seems that this bothered many companies, such as Squaresoft. It moved away from the company due to the limitations of cartridges in front of PlayStation 1 and SEGA Saturn CDs. In a recent interview with VentureBeat, former…

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Squaresoft tried to convince Nintendo to switch to CDs for the N64

One infamous part of the Nintendo 64 era was that Nintendo decided to stick with cartridges, even though both the SEGA Saturn and the PlayStation 1 were using CDs. Some third-party companies were not happy about this, with the most notable one being Squaresoft. Squaresoft would eventually merge with Enix to form Square Enix in… Read More »Squaresoft tried to convince Nintendo to switch to CDs for the N64 Source

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Squaresoft tried to convince Nintendo to use CDs for the N64

As many gamers know, back in the day, Nintendo went with cartridges for the N64 as its media format. In many ways, this ended up doing quite a bit of damage. That was especially so given that PlayStation ended up using CDs. Why was this a big deal? For one thing, CDs had the ability to hold more data compared... The post Squaresoft tried to convince Nintendo to use CDs for the N64 appeared first on Nintendo Everything.

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Squaresoft tried to convince Nintendo to use CDs instead of carts on the N64

Guessing that didn't go over well