Playstation 2 popularity... - I think ps2 dont deserve it !

[Troy88]

Dammit Karma, don't make me bust out the old Nintendo Power magazines to verify the rumors that I already had the displeasure of reading the first time. Nintendo Power is directly affiliated with Nintendo, so I think it's safe to assume that if you heard a rumor about something Nintendo was "planning" to do, then that's what Nintendo wants it's sheep, er, fans to think.

You are 100% wrong about the Playstation. If Nintendo truly wanted to make a CD-ROM add-on, don't you think they could have done it without Sony? It never happened because Nintendo decided to focus their efforts on a new cartridge system instead, leaving Sony up a f*cked river. Furthermore, I don't think Nintendo took the idea very seriously in the first place. What better way to keep people interested than to promise them new hardware. The fans keep their SNES and keep buying games, while waiting for an add-on that never comes.

There was no "middle" in the development of the PS. Nintendo and Sony fell out way before things got that far along. Remember the 3DO system? Well....guess what? 3DO=Playstation. The body and controllers were redesigned, but the hardware was identical.

And here it is, a quote from "Game Informer," issue 109, page 20: "Estimates from Square say that putting Final Fantasy VII ont the N64 would have required no less than 13 carts."