Quote Originally Posted by Tron 2.0 View Post
Simply a cheaper way to make games was the reason for some titles,to be on disk.In those days it was expensive for nintendo to manufacture games on cartridges.At least that is the impression i get when i read any info at any site on the fds.
You posted before I put mine up, but I guess a tl;dr version of my post won't hurt:

1983 launch to 1985: Carts are the only option
1986-87: Hooray disks! Lots of good games!
1988: But everybody is pirating them and Nintendo is being dicks about licensing. Back to carts then!

Edit: Heh, I did it too. I totally forgot about the story of the ROM shortage, thanks Pingvin!

Between the two of us I think we covered the bases.