| Twilord said:
Nintendo wanted to make a disk-drive expansion, went so Sony. They made a contract but it turned out the contract sucked and Nintendo realized they had to back out because Sony was asking too much. Sony went ahead with turning "the Nintendo Play Station" into "the Sony Playstation". Arguably Nintendo taught Sony the lesson about not screwing over those you see as 'sub-ordinate game devs' that Nintendo itself would have to learn much later, which was part of what has actually caused problems for Nintendo in the long term.
When I read your version however I imagine Nintendo kicking the SNES out of the house because it was sixteen, going to tell its Wife Sony something important, and then being told Sony had gotten pregnant by Mr. Station. - Followed by Nintendo tormentedly asking how Sony could do such a thing, and then revealing it was m.preg. |
Revisionist History
In reality, Both Sony and Nintendo went in wanting different things. Ken Kutaragi, (The lead designer of PlayStation up to PS3) wanted to get Sony into the game Industry, and Nintendo wanted to develop a CD addon.
Sony wanted control of the SNES-CD format, in the same way that Nintendo had full control over the Cartridge format.
My favorite part personally is this paragraph:
By this point, Nintendo had had just about all it could take. On top of the deal signed in 1988, Sony had also contributed the main audio chip to the cartridge-based Super NES. The Ken Kutaragi-designed chip was a key element to the system, but was designed in such a way as to make effective development possible only with Sony's expensive development tools. Sony had also retained all rights to the chip, which further exaserbated Nintendo.
The day after Sony announced its plans to begin work on the Play Station, Nintendo made an announcement of its own. Instead of confirming its alliance with Sony, as everyone expected, Nintendo announced it was working with Philips, Sony's longtime rivals, on the SNES CD-ROM drive. Sony was understandably furious.
Because of their contract-breaking actions, Nintendo not only faced legal repercussions from Sony, but could also experience a serious backlash from the Japanese business community. Nintendo had broken the unwritten law that a company shouldn't turn against a reigning Japanese company in favor of a foreign one.
http://www.ign.com/articles/1998/08/28/history-of-the-playstation
If anything it was more Nintendo's fault then Sony's, but hey that's buisness.
The result was a long-forgotten cd peripheral and a lawsuit from the company they worked with for Nintendo and 2/3 console generations and the leading 8th gen console for PlayStation.
Quite ironic.
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