GDC: Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Goes After U.S. Gamers With New Studio

[Jordahn]

kabledog said:

Jordahn said:

kabledog said:

@blackstar

Your signature is incorrect.............Nintendo gave us the PSone.

Just thought I'd share that.

Nope. The prototype design was by SONY. Otherwise, Nintendo would not have approached SONY about it and just did it themselves without SONY. If nothing else, Nintendo abandoned the project so no matter how you look at it, Nintendo had nothing to do with it anymore. SONY didn't have to market the PlayStation, but they did because they could since it was their's.

 

"Not really knowing at the time how to utilise a CD add-on their gaming console, Nintendo turned to a well know electronics company called Sony. Sony and Nintendo formed a deal to work together and Sony was given complete access to all the specs and goings on of the SNES to develop a CD based add-on for Nintendo. Funny enough, the development code name of the add-on was "Playstation"."

http://www.gamingobsession.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=403&Itemid=1

also another limk for more information. http://books.google.com/books?id=OZFuS-kUUwsC&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=sony+develops+cd+drive+for+snes&source=bl&ots=FoHX_qDjDL&sig=arL9FXMLCEHl_vWtNH7GZfweM9g&hl=en&ei=cQfLSan6PInYsAO_18G4Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result

 

 

Yep, that pretty much proves that SONY gave us the PSOne.  Nintendo asked SONY to build it, and Nintendo later abandoned it.  So SONY decided to marketed the product themselves.