| Kage848 said: This is news to me. From the story i have read about this issue it was like this. Nintendo wanted to get into the CD games market. They saw Sony made sega's Sega CD add on and thought we will just get Sony to make ours too. But Sony started talking about making a new system of there own down the line. Nintendo didn't like the idea of Sony knowing the inner workings of the Genisis and the SNES and then useing all that info to make a new system down the road and turn into a compeitor. At some tradeshow, CES 92 i think, Sony made the anouncement that they were going to be working with Nintendo on a new CD based Nintendo system. Then Nintendo gets up there and tell everyone forget what Sony said we are acually going to be making the CD system with Philips. I don't blame Nintendo for droping Sony but they really should have told them before Sony anouced at it CES. OT: This has to be a joke thread and if its not? Well then I feel real sorry for the OP's narrow minded view of gaming. Ditto for anyone that agrees with him. |
That's partly true as well. Ken Kutaragi, SCE's CEO at the time, became interested in gaming when he saw his daughter playing with the Famicom (Japanese NES), but he also knew that Sony had no experience making video game consoles. So he made contracts with both Sega and Nintendo so he could see their consoles' blueprints. But the reason Nintendo rejected their contract in the end was because Sony demanded 100% control over anything related to the CD add-on with Nintendo receiving no royalties. That would mean Sony would be in control of every IP Nintendo owned.
This is the very first Playstation prototype. Judging from the complete lack of Nintendo's logo on it, it's obvious that Sony intended to go alone from the very beginning.
