ConsolesThe Nintendo 64 Deep Dive Every Collector Should ReadCartridges in 1996. Sony had already proven the CD was the future with the PlayStation a year earlier, and Sega was fumbling around with the Saturn. Then Nintendo shipped a 64-bit console that still read chunky plastic carts, and somehow it worked anyway. That decision explains almost everything interesting about the N64 - the good, the ugly, and the reason certain games now cost more than the console itself.
Why the cartridge gamble mattered more than the polygons
The Nintendo 64 launched in
