Ps1 had more breathing room in some ways, but you’re acting like it didn’t also have sharp limitations to work around. Every console of that generation still had severe restrictions.
And yet, we had Resident Evil 2 on N64 with all the videos and no compromises. The only reason why they abandoned Nintendo is because it was the FMV era and those were difficult to properly compress.
On the other hand, N64 was home to huge games that did marvels with the hardware. Because of the cart limitations, we had masterpieces such as Perfect Dark, Zelda Oot, Jet Force Gemini… Cart limits made devs focus on things that weren’t FMVs.
Limitation: Nintendo wants to back out of the SNES disk drive console deal.
Innovation: Sony makes their own console and calls it the Playstation.
Limitation: Not enough memory for some games on the N64.
Innovation: Expandable memory for the console, packaged with games that need it.
The n64 also brought us vibrating controllers before Sony’s DualShock controllers, and standardized joysticks on the controller (even though it only used 1).
Limitations breed innovation
That was before electron
Unless it’s PS vs N64.
Psx and N64 era brought a bunch of the best videogames ever. Not sure what you’re talking about.
Maybe they are referring to one of the long nerdy videos explaining how some game is unoptimized crap
The game size limitation of N64 vs PS disc caused game developers to abandon Nintendo and go to PlayStation.
Ps1 had more breathing room in some ways, but you’re acting like it didn’t also have sharp limitations to work around. Every console of that generation still had severe restrictions.
And yet, we had Resident Evil 2 on N64 with all the videos and no compromises. The only reason why they abandoned Nintendo is because it was the FMV era and those were difficult to properly compress.
On the other hand, N64 was home to huge games that did marvels with the hardware. Because of the cart limitations, we had masterpieces such as Perfect Dark, Zelda Oot, Jet Force Gemini… Cart limits made devs focus on things that weren’t FMVs.
There are definite compromises but it is a good port.
Some N64 games are better than their PS1 counterparts
Nightmare Creatures and Shadow Man come to mind
Nightmare creatures on the PS1 is a blocky polygon mess and Shadow Man on the same system is almost unplayable
I mean there’s an argument for that on just the N64 not comparing to PS1.
Take a look back at the absolute black magic Capcom had to do getting Resident Evil 2 on the N64
Limitation: Nintendo wants to back out of the SNES disk drive console deal.
Innovation: Sony makes their own console and calls it the Playstation.
Limitation: Not enough memory for some games on the N64.
Innovation: Expandable memory for the console, packaged with games that need it.
The n64 also brought us vibrating controllers before Sony’s DualShock controllers, and standardized joysticks on the controller (even though it only used 1).
Result: Square abandoned Nintendo for PlayStation to get the larger disc.