01-07-02, 05:11 AM
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Originally posted by keltorak
Actually, wasn't it Nintendo being bitches about using proprietary techniques that were not theirs (CDs) ? They liked the extra dough they made off of cartridge, since they could set the price however they wanted.
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Clarify that, please. I don't understand the question.
I think what you're talking about is a whole other issue that dates back to the NES.
Nintendo was sued several times because of their "lock out" feature that prevented other manufcaturers from freely making cartridges for the NES system. This "lock out" is what led to the "Genuine Nintendo" (or something like that) label on the outside of their cartridge's packages. This issue, however, had nothing to do with their choice of media.
What I was talking about was when everyone was going CD, Nintendo stuck with cartridges because cartridges can not be copied like CDs can be copied. More than anything, Nintendo feared consumers burning copies of their games, thus the cartridges... thus the 3" DVDs.
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