alt Hacker Newsimho, Nintendo had a hard enough time with preventing piracy and unlicensed games with the NES and SNES and saw the PS1 got modded within a year, even with the special black coated discs to hide the tracks. There wasn’t a lot of optical/compact disc copy protection magic at the time and, cd-rs and writers started getting popular quickly as well. ps1 in 1994, n64 in 1996, backwards Dreamcast GD-ROMs and beginnings of larger discs and DVDS in 98.
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?