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jarrod on 12 February 2011
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dunuck said:
Immortal said:
dunuck said:

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And that affects his statement how?

I cant believe nobody sees this.... Maybe its my fault i didnt expres my self correctly

It directly affects his point in the way that NES was already supposed to have a CD drive via its partisanship with Sony, and Sony wouldn't even thought of making the PS1 if it weren't from the back-stab and humiliation it suffered from Nintendo.

If anything  his point should have been something like:  "if Nintendo didn't back stab Sony and went with Philips we probably wouldn't see the PS1. So we should be thankful Nintendo back-stabbed Sony" Plus the humilation Sony President Ohga suffered from Nintendo pretty much inspired him to go ahead with the project. You see honor is a big thing for the Japanese. Ever heard of the term Seppuku aka harakiri?

Had he/she said that (he/she) would have had much stronger and more importantly irrefutable point, you see im not completely against his idea its just the way he presented was funny (ironic?) to say the least. If Nintendo never intended to work with sony and sony was going to make a PS1 for the sixth gen anyways then his points would have made more sense. See where im going at?

And like some others have mentioned apart from CD drive there were a number of other factors that made the PS1 dominant, a quick trip to the wiki can tell you that ;)

Er, I think you pretty much entirely misunderstood my statement... I wasn't saying a CD-ROM based N64 would've precluded PS2 happening because Sony would've worked with Nintendo, I was saying a CD-ROM based N64 would've precluded PS2 happening because such a system would've held on to Nintendo's overwhelming developer support and likely crushed PS1. Not that the media alone was at issue with Nintendo and 3rd parties, but it was definitely biggest wedge and what ultimately led the mass exodus of developer support to PlayStation.

Also, Sony was always keen to get in on the games hardware market one way or another.  They co-developed the MSX standard with Microsoft and other firms, they lambasted their engineers for not coming up with something like the Game Boy before Nintendo did, and they tried getting deals going with both Sega and Nintendo in order to get a piece of their royalty pie.  Nintendo's "backstab" was even self-preservation in the end anyway, Sony's lawyers basically wrote into the deal that Sony would retain 100% of the royalties off SNES CD-ROM software, effectively cutting Nintendo out of their own platform.  That's the only reason why Nintendo struck the deal with Phillips in response, which itself ultimately went nowhere.