Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Nintendo 64 Game Pak" in English language version.
Give me a break. Nintendo cartridges only hold between 8 and 16 megabytes of data compared to 650 megabytes on a CD. A CD costs very little to manufacture, compared to Nintendo's cartridge costs ... Most N64 carts are costing consumers $55 to $70, compared with $20 to $50 for a PlayStation CD. And the CD allows smaller manufacturing runs with very short lead times. This is why all creative development is going to be on a CD. The CD allows the publisher to take creative content risks—not inventory risk. Even the 64DD holds less than one-tenth of the storage of a CD.