>>11851902 (OP)>What were they thinking?They literally didn't. Releasing a console with no CD and worse memory bandwidth than a PS1 in fucking 1996 was wild. It's literally among the dumbest consoles ever devised. Only beaten by Saturn's utter nightmare of a slop, but at least Sega understood that memory bandwidth and cheap storage format are important.
>>11851906Fun games doesn't equal good hardware. OoT's, GoldenEye's, and Perfect Dark's framerate was absolutely kneecapped by N64's piss poor memory bandwidth and zero memory parallelization. The graphics was also worse than it should've been thanks to that.