SNES-CD add-on (Play Station)

[johnsobas]

a.l.e.x59 said:
A long time ago, Sony was going to develop the SNES-CD add-on for the SNES, called the Play Station, but unfortunately, it was cancelled. Apparently, Nintendo didn't like the idea that Sony had the rights to develop all games on the SNES-CD, so they cancelled the SNES-CD add on, and went with Phillips to create the Phillips CDi, which turned out to be a failure. After the SNES-CD add-on was cancelled, Sony went on to make the PlayStation. So did Nintendo betray Sony? If they did, I find it funny how they betrayed Sony, a company that would later create the Playstation, and Playstation 2, two of the best selling consoles of all time, for Phillips, a company that would create the disastrous Phillips CDi, and further slap Nintendo in the face by making three terrible Zelda games, and one terrible Mario game. So who was the bad guy here? Nintendo, or Sony? It seems as if Nintendo's Nintendo 64, and Gamecube got punished by Sony's Playstation, and Playstation 2, after Nintendo slapped Sony in the face for cancelling the SNES-CD add-on, for Phillips. I guess Nintendo would have been smarter to keep the SNES-CD add-on. They would have avoided getting slapped in the face by Phillips, for producing the CDi, a complete failure, and Sony, by producing the PlayStation, and PlayStation 2, two successes that burned the Nintendo 64, and Gamecube down. So do you agree with Nintendo's actions, or no? Did they betray Sony for good reasons, or no?

CD-i may have made a mockery of zelda and mario, but it didn't really have any affect on Nintendo really.  SNES-CD would have been a failure too, add-ons are never a good idea.  We saw add-ons hurt Sega quite a bit, and I doubt Nintendo would have been much more successful with it.  Nintendo's problem was not cancelling the SNES-CD, their problem was the lack of support for 3rd parties with the N64 and the choice of using cartridges.