The more I heat about the 64DD the more it seems that it was really what broke Nintendo around the turn of the millennium.>see 64DD as "second half" of N64>hold out on key franchises expecting them to go onto 64DD>devs don't really know what to do with the 64DD>delay development over it>games don't come along as well, delay 64DD>essentially cancel 64DD, hastily rework as many games as possible for N64The N64 seems to me was actually a really powerful console and even the cartridges weren't actually that bad. But instead of actually focusing on this system so much effort went into the 64DD that they didn't even get all they could out of the N64.And then instead of learning from their mistakes they come up with the GC holy shit.The 90s were such a crazy era for videogames. Man.
>>12927395The Ultra 64 was a scam that couldn't even run the one game (Killer Instinct) that advertised it.
The N64 really was the last time Nintendo tried making cutting edge hardware.
>>12927395They were retarded, they didn't even learn from their own FDS, NEC's CD add-ons, SEGA CD, the Atari Jaguar CD or the SEGA 32X...You are making the customer pay for another console and force the developers to choose between developing for the model everyone has or for the experimental expensive thingy no one dares to get too invested with. Nintendo should have disappeared as a hardware maker back in the GameCube era but got saved by the Wii, the console for moms and autistic kids
>>12927425I heard that the GC was actually really powerful
>>12927437Dude, it was so powerful
>>12927437Less powerfull than the PS2 released 1,5 year before...
>>12927437It's a decently powerful device even if it wasn't like the OG Xbox, but Nintendo fucked it over by making tiny little discs for it instead of standard DVD-sized ones. Just one of many annoyances for it.
>>12927469Pretty funny how Nintendo was raped twice by anti-piracy measures. I'm convinced the N64 and Gamecube would've done great had they just said fuck it, and made it work with standard CDs. It certainly would've offset whatever losses from piracy they were so paranoid over.
>>12927484they didn't want to pay royalties on the CD format which would partially be going to sony
>>12927484CD is gay, just do zip-base cartridge media
>>12927457Moggedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIWemp1ZZk
>>12927395When the gamecube came out they switched from yamauchi to iwata. They had to deal with a new competitor, Microsoft, after already having had to deal with Sony taking most of their market share. They were dealing with a loss of third party support from the previous generation as well as a large increase in development costs. The above are reasons why they rushed some Gamecube games. Yamauchi personally pushed for the 64DD partly out of spite. But it wasn't a total failure because they ported a lot of 64DD planned games to cartridge anyway, Majora's Mask, Animal Crossing, Kirby64, Pokemon Stadium. The Gamecube is in fact relatively powerful and it has a highly efficient architecture, seemingly responding to memory bus and texture cache issues of the N64.
People keep saying that the N64 is a really, really powerful system, and all I think about is how shit and simplistic the games look due to lack of good texture work.
>>12927484At least with the N64 you could argue that Nintendo assumed their audience couldn't be trusted for shit with something more delicate like optical media, but there was zero excuse to not go with DVDs around the time of the Gamecube. The writing was on the wall with how the PS2 crushed the DC partly because it could also play DVDs, there was zero chance that most devs wanted to take the time out to compress their games on a not very popular platform.
>>12927621Rose colored nostalgia goggles. It was a good system at the time, but the ps1 was great, even with all the shovelware.
>>12927495Fuck that use high speed punch tape
>>12927648Even the Wii U can't play dvd movies despite using dvds. Nintendo hates physical movies.
>>12927412Sadly true.
>>12927395>The more I heat about the 64DDlol>he can't even post AI slop any more without completely fucking it upyep, it's the lolcow schizo. again.>>12927724>Nintendo hates physical movies.nintendo didn't want to pay the dvd forum money for royalties and licensing. that's the only reason, schizo retard.
>>12927724The wii u did not use dvds.
>>12927395It's not even funny how much the trajectory of gaming would've changed if 64DD wasn't massively delayed and Japan only. We'd have gotten a number of gamecube games earlier, Ocarina of Time with it's planned 64DD features, Mother 3, whatever Project Cabbage was, potentially miis earlier is the Mario Artist series was a success. I think the thing had online elements too
