If sony only made software who should they support?

[vaio]

mibuokami said:

vaio said:

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.

I don't have the full fact (only standard industry news which never mentioned this) so I won't refute, but find it hard to believe Sony would attempt something so stupid when they have ab obvious interest invested in the success of the platform. Remember that Nintendo back then were very very arrogant and high-handed, this could be blown out of pro-portion either way like dunno001 said.

Yeah back then Nintendo was the biggest idiots ever, there is no way to refute that. There was a similar situation between Sony and Sega at the same time and Sony has always been that arrogant to this day but i guess it part of why they are so big.