Legacy

The 64DD may be apparent as the Nintendo 64 agnate of the Atari Jaguar CD. Both are disc-based add-on consoles, appear in the weeks surrounding the barrage of their abject consoles. In both cases, the abject consoles did not accomplish as able-bodied in the bazaar as their publishers (Nintendo and Atari Corporation) had hoped, and the add-ons were ultimately appear for alone two reasons: to accumulate the swear of their absolution to gamers, and to compensate some of the money already spent on the consoles' development. Because of this, the consoles were both appear in bound numbers and with little marketing, fabricated accessible alone in the publisher's home country, and accurate for a actual abbreviate time. Finally, both consoles were appear with an almighty aerial bulk of pack-in abstracts (the Jaguar CD was arranged with two games, a soundtrack CD, and a audience disc).

The abstraction of downloading advice was beforehand apparent in the Famicom Modem for the Famicom and Satellaview for the Super Famicom.