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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1783165" data-attributes="member: 8461">I was under the impression that the lack of abandoning the cartridge format is what lead to the licensing troubles. From what I understand, the cartridge format was faster in terms of loading time, and the N64 itself was a system with greater processing power than the PS1, but for the third-parties, the amount of work needed to put a game on a cartridge, as opposed to a disc, was much greater - essentially making more companies unwilling to put their work on a cartridge, even as a port from an existing game; and that this was the major loss of the N64 to the newcomer that was the PS1, not any particular follies in terms of how they approached licensing deals.Of course, no one is perfect, and Nintendo has made some bad decisions also, such as driving Silicon Knights from a second-party company to a third-party one because Nintendo wanted them to focus more on play controls, and Silicon Knights wanted to focus more on storyline.Well, those of us who are system loyal to Nintendo hope that Sony doesn't understand these things at all. Still, that was a very cogent breakdown as to why the Game Boy has trumped all other handheld systems. Truth to tell, I'm still unsure why the Game Gear lost to the Game Boy; can you explain why it wasn't the GB-killer people thought it would be? Especially since, as I recall, Sega always had a stronger advertising presence (at least on television) than Nintendo.Btw Dru, nice avatar. Everyone loves Magical Trevor.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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