Opinion: A new, more powerful PS4 could undo all the goodwill Sony has regained

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

Long, long ago, in a console generation far, far away there was a little box of magic that went by the name of Nintendo 64.

It was a steadfast commitment to the past with its adorable chunky cartridges, and a powerful stride into the future thanks to 64-bits of oomph and the kind of pedigree game selection that would make most consoles weep with envy.

As sturdy as it was in the processing department, developers were still obsessed with a Frankenstein-esque desire for more power. Then along came the Expansion Pak.

Originally conceived as a memory boost (it added 4MB of DRAM, essentially doubling the N64’s internal memory) it was meant to act as the bannerman of the balked 64DD (yes, that was really its name) add-on peripheral.

The 64DD instead died a death and the N64 community was left with an add-on that made for more powerful games and great visual output. It was great, it made The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, Perfect Dark and Donkey Kong 64 the kind of experiences that left Sony’s PS1 for dust.

But it also made those games inaccessible to those that needed to fork out for the game and the pak.

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming