If sony only made software who should they support?

[vaio]

mibuokami said:

vaio said:

mibuokami said:

vaio said:

mibuokami said:

Shadowblind said:

I'd say that for a while, they may support mainly Ninty, since it was only after MS entered the console warz did their domination end, depending on available hardware. Still afterwards they'd probably take the SEGA route and do multi.

And as many will need to come in here and say..."its not ever gonna happen, etc."

By that logic, Sega should have supported Nintendo exclusively as Sony was one of the big reason on why they failed with the Saturn / Dreamcast

 

Don't fool yourself, honour is dead.

Long live money our eternal master in the corporate world.

No they wouldn´t before Sony entered Nintendo was Sega´s biggest enemy and I am still suprised they actually pot anything on a Nintendo system. The biggest reason Sega went out was themselves Sony only helped making the procedure faster.

So you think the Wii hasn't stolen some market share of the PS3 as well? Shadowblind was singling out MS who are instrumental in bringing Sony to its current position but a large part of the problem was also Sony mismanagement. Sega lost market share to both Nintendo and Sony, but the lionshare whent to Sony, they've also made some terrible bussiness decision, much more so than even Sony.

I'm drawing similiar parallel to counter a similiar situation, not trying to give the correct and up-to-date ananlysis of Sega's downfall :p

I think the Wii has taken market share out of everyone.

My point was that Sega always saw Nintendo as their biggest opponent.

As an aswer to the post above this one:

he SNES-CD was to be announced at the June 1991 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). However, when Hiroshi Yamauchiread the original 1988 contract between Sony and Nintendo, he realized that the earlier agreement essentially handed Sony complete control over any and all titles written on the SNES CD-ROM format.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation

Nintendo knew at the time that cd would be the future and handing controll over any and all titles to sony that was only supposed to help them out with the cdrom would have been suicide for Nintendo.

That was control of the distribution not control of the IP, if Nintendo had realize that CD Rom was the future, the N64 which was developed AFTER the SNES-CD concept would have been a CD-system.

The original agreement was (as far as I'm aware) a split with the right of distrution base on media format, with Sony getting the right (and royalty) for CD base distribution and Nintendo the cartridge, halfway through negotiation however they (Nintendo) got cold feet once they realize that Sony would have the right to distribute CD base games for even Nintendo titles (and the royalty associated with it) and decided to go behind Sony's make to create another console altogether.

The 'control over any and all title' here refers to the right of distribution any and all CD-base titles (and the royalty for it) not the ownership of the IP which is absolutely absurd.

Did you read the part that says complete controll over any and all titles?

thats not controll of distribution thats controll over any and all titles that used the cdrom wich in turn could have been used by Sony later if the contract had gone through.

There is more to this story but I cant find links and only have swedish gaming newspapers from back then as source so therfore I am not going to mention it.

The thing is that Nintendo hired Sony to make them a cd and Sony tried to get the rights to the ip´s using said cd drive and they had no right to even remotly try it and if Nintendo would have gone along with it then Sony would have had the rights to those ip´s today unless Nintendo stayed with cartridge format which would still leave Sony with the rights to those games on cd format.