Goodness man. I really hope you don't believe the fellow that told you that mess of fallacies.
Nintendo tapped Sony to create the disc drive for their next console. Things went well until the final contract was reviewed by Nintendo. Sony had written the contract with the stipulations that they retain all branding and rights to the console basically relegating Nintendo to a 2nd party development studio. Nintendo immediately pulled out attempted to strike a deal with Philips but that too fell through. Because they couldn't get a disc drive manufacturer on board for their next console, they were forced to continue using catridges.
Also, M and T rated games (and their pre-ESRB equivelants) were around prior to the release of the Playstation. Sony had nothing to do with the origination of either that style of content or the rating board itself.
So pretty much what I just said... Sony had already began production on them before the deal fell through costing Sony millions and pissing them off enough to make them join the videogame war.
I know M and T games and such were around before PlaySation but PlayStation ushered in the era of Mature games, there was an abundance of mature games on PlaySation, I'm not saying Nintendo wouldn't of eventually directed there attention to the mature audience, I'm just saying without Sony it wouldn't of happened so soon.
No, production never began. A few prototypes were developed but that's it. And it didn't cost Sony much of anything as Nintendo paid for it. Sony wasn't making the disc drive as a favor.
And the push for "M" oriented games began with Sega and 3DO. You're 15, man. Stop reading revisionist history and listen to the people that actually lived through it.
For the last time I know PS1 didn't invent M rated games but they were the first to focus on the Mature audience. Nintendo went after the casual audience, Sega had the arcade and casual audience, and Sony had the mature audience.
I am listening to you but I believe the actual Company that went through it over any gamer. I know this video makes Nintendo out as a bad guy, and I know they weren't. It was just a contract that fell through. Sony felt betrayed because they already had investors and they were already in pre production. It angered them enough to cause them to join the console race.
