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Sony and Nintendo's first partnership came well before the SNES CD issue by way of Sony providing the sound chip for the SNES.
As an aside, we're all familiar with the 3D0 console. That was basically Panasonic and EA. Now EA seems to give a lot of love to Nintendo. Further more, in the mid 90's Panasonic began work on a successor console targeted to crush the N64 graphically which they called the M2. Soon after they sold the technology to parent company Matsushita though they never used the technology outside of interactive kiosks. Only a year later Matsushita provided the proprietary mini-DVD for the GameCube while Panasonic released the DVD enabled GameCube known as Q.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
