Nintendo 64

The phrase "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down" is Japanese in origin. In America, it's "the squeaky wheel gets the grease". One thing that annoys me about the culture is that finishing your work and leaving early is seen as being lazy, while dragging your ass, fucking around, and staying past your shift is "hard working".

FMVs sold systems, why the fuck would anyone want to cut that?
Its like wanting to chop off your legs to fit in a clown car.

That's the problem with the entirety of Japanese culture. As well as what is essentially Japan's catchphrase at this point, "It can't be helped". It's a culture where 100 people could die to build a bridge, but the bridge was built so who cares? They're all pathetic conformists In the dystopian fiction sense, not the "Look at me, I'm such a rebel!" sense who are all lazy and only act to improve things when the thing is about to collapse and kill tons of people.
I wish SudoStef was still making videos. He had a nice little rant about what's wrong with Japanese work culture

Not having loading times was a nice deal though.

Well, that's exactly whats wrong with consolecucks.

And yet playing old N64 feels awful and borderline unplayable whereas ps1 games are just as charming and playable as they ever were.

The only mistake Nintendo made with the Gamecube was thinking people still cared more about video games than "multimedia devices".

Except PS2 had more games than the gamecube on top of having more functionality.

Not really. Both consoles have their fair share of games that are fun to this day, and their fair share of games that aged like milk. Look at this fucking masterpiece.

It had more games because more people bought it, because they wanted a cheap DVD player.

The only time a pirate would stop pursuing piracy on a particular system, is if the piracy method costs more money than the top 20% of the system's games combined.