Sure, some of the games at the time were astonishing and well regarded classics, but man oh man do I dislike the controller, it just feels so... alien to hold you know?

Another thing too, the cartridge format whilst snappy, suffered from making too many cutbacks compared to the disc format of PS1 and Saturn which gave you pretty much the full scoop.

I am sure Nintnedo had their reasons at the time, but to me it was almost like it was a death by a thousand cuts scenario, a really powerful machine let down by not using what is literally the next gen medium at the time.

Let me know your thoughts, it is fine to disagree as the console is well respected with both nostalgia and entertainment, I'm just an outlier here.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The controller was so you could use it as a d-pad or as a joystick controller

Our current format has the assumption you will use both at the same time

Cartridges were faster but held less data, currently there is no reason to use cds/dvds/blurays over sd cards