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enditall727 on 13 December 2012
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sethnintendo said:
happydolphin said:
enditall727 said:

what would i be irate about?

 

Nintendo and Sony were supposed to team up but didn't Nintendo pull out when they originally wanted to use the  CD-ROM?

 

what made them go with cartridges when they originally wanted to go with the CD-ROM like the others?

You're just irate, it pervades in your posts.

The whole affair left a very sour taste in the mouth of Yamauchi, and he basically said "Fuck it". I don't have the source right now, but that's my understanding of it.

The things got delayed so long and they came in contact with the silicon graphics technology and my guess is it used/required cartridges and, well, "voilà".

If it just ended at Sony, I don't think Nintendo would give money away to Phillips like that, it doesn't make sense. And if Nintendo didn't want discs, they wouldn't have contracted Sony to do their Nintendo Playstation in the first place.

Cheers.

"However, the two companies conflicted over control of the licensing. Under their agreement, Sony would develop and retain control over the SNES-CD disc format, effectively ceding a large amount of control over software licensing to Sony. To counter this, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi sent Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa and executive Howard Lincoln to Europe to negotiate a more favorable deal with Philips, Sony's industry rival. At the June 1991 Consumer Electronics Show, Sony announced its SNES-compatible cartridge/CD console, the "Play Station". The next day, Nintendo revealed its partnership with Philips via a surprise announcement at the show."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNES-CD

"Sometime in 1988 Sony began working on the prototype of the SNES-CD also called, "Playstation". This new addon was to be attached at the bottom of the SNES. The top would allow for catridges to be loaded and the add-on for CD's to be inserted. Along the lines of the contract agreement, Sony would earn the royalty for games released in the CD format. As confirmed before, Nintendo earned its profits from royalties of games released on their consoles."

http://voices.yahoo.com/the-downfall-nintendo-sony-rose-prominence-112912.html

ohhhhhhhh so that's what happened?

 

Sony got played by Nintendo with that Phillip reveal LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

now I understand the split. They couldn't agree on where the money for the games would go if they partnered with each other.