| oniyide said: @viper1 i already said that had little to do with the cd-rom. Just another example of how they were messing up in those days. speaking of the cd-roms, ill refer you to soundwave who said it better than i could. |
His statement doesn't add anythig that you diddn't already state except maybe a price.
Fact is that Sony wanted full brand control which nobody would ever agree to. Philips and JVC were some of the providers for 3D0, SNK and Sega's disc drives which may have been why Nintendo had difficulty attracting them. We do know they couldn't go with Matsushita (you may know them as Panasonic) because they were building a competing console.
Nintendo didn't turn its back on CD media. They tried. They started working on it way back in 1988. Does that sound a company that just wanted to turn its back on optical media?
By the time all those deals fell through, they were already a whole year behind schedule. It was go with carts or be 2 years late to the market against a very competitive Sony.
And as soon as Matsushita shelved the M2 project, Nintendo went back to them to work on the 64 DD and the GC disc drive. Seriously, does that sound like they turned their backs on optical media to you? I mean they wanted an optical disc drive so badly that they made the 64 DD.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
