Iwata - Nintendo will not stand still while Sony/Microsoft progress

[Darc Requiem]

Aquietguy said:

Staude said:

they've finally switched to a cd based system, which they weren't exacly the first to do either...

Yea! But wasn't the cd base that Sony used in the ps1 originally designed as a cd add on for the snes? So if Nintendo wouldn't have becked out on Sony, a cd add on for the snes would have beat the saturn to the market. So they would have been the first to use a cd base console and there wouldn't be a play station brand from Sony. All you Sony fan boys can atleast thank Nintendo for something.

Well yes the Playstation originally began as an SNES add on, but that is besides the point. NEC was the first to have CD based console games. The Turbo/PC Engine CD was launched in 1988.