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Mummelmann said:
SegataSanshiro said:

Not the whole truth. SEGA of America proposed to work with Sony for Saturn. SOA sent Sony proposed specs. SEGA of Japan hated the idea and wanted to go with their own design. Sony used the specs SOA wanted. The PS1 we got is thanks to SEGA.

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As to OP. Fact is this. Even if SEGA didn't go with Sony but made a machine that compared and easy to develop for didn't fuck up with Saturnday marketing and N64 used discs. PS1 NO DOUBT would have gone the way of 3D0 and CDi. PS1 much like PS4 was a success because the competition screwed up so badly.

I seem to remember that Nintendo screwed Sony over due to the terms of the contract that Sont wanted and then went with Philips instead for their CD drive, all this without telling them and Sony only found out when Nintendo announced their new partnership with Philips on Stage. The Playstation was born out of no small amount of spite, it would seem. I bet that this is a decision that Nintendo have regretted more than once through the years and it ended up changing the industry forever.

This was Nintendo and Sony planning to develope a console called Play Station together, that would play SNES carts and CD games. However, the contract signed granted Sony 25% of the profits made on games released on the device. After Yamauchi found about it, he wiped his ass with the paper.

Nintendo went to Philips behind Sony's back to develope a CD add-on for the SNES. This too resulted in sort of problems, and in the end Nintendo, Philips and Sony were developing the CD add-on together - until this project crashed and burned as well. Not only this have something to do with Playstation, but also CDi is a "SNES CD-drive", and the cover in minidiscs comes from this project.

I don't know has Nintendo regretted what happened for two reasons: 1. All this stuff was for devices that would be just an upgraded SNES, meaning deviced that had preceded N64/PS/Saturn anyway. 2. It sounds naivistic that Sony would not enter the console market anyway. They had made the same notion Yamauchi made while wiping his ass with the Sony contract; why should they share the profits.



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