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PraetorXyn posted...

I dont know about that. Worst is which fuckup theyve done has cost them the most money.

Contenders are:
1. Virtual Boy
2. Using 32 MB cartridges for the N64 instead of the one or more 700 MB CDs their competitors had and screwing themselves out of the Final Fantasy franchise and a ton of other 3rd parties in so doing.
3. Using 1.44 GB minidiscs for the GameCube instead of the 4.7 GB DVDs their competitors were using and again screwing themselves out of a ton of 3rd parties in so doing.
Virtual Boy is probably more of a loss than the others, but its impossible to know how much more money theyd have made if they werent stubborn control freaks for 2 generations.

I feel like using cartridges for the N64 was more of a "the last straw" for third parties than anything. Square was already unhappy with Nintendo for canceling the SNES CD-ROM project because Secret of Mana was going to release on it, so they had to redo the whole game to make it fit on a cartridge.