[eru]

The discs being black was a marketing gimmick, the actual magic was in the 'wobble'.

> Nintendo had a hard enough time with preventing piracy and unlicensed games with the NES and SNES [...]

Yes, so I'm not sure that the cartridge drawbacks bought them that much in terms of piracy protection?

I agree that the PS1 had more piracy, but I'm not sure that actually diminished its success?

[pezezin]

> I agree that the PS1 had more piracy, but I'm not sure that actually diminished its success?

At least in my corner of the world (Spain), piracy improved its success. Everybody wanted the PSX due to how cheap it was, I think it outsold the N64 10:1.

[baud147258]

it works if the console isn't sold at a loss, which isn't always the business model