fordy said:
How exactly did Nintendo bully Sony during the SNES-CD development? Keep in mind that the contract was revealed from Sony that would have essentially forced Nintendo to become a 2nd party developer for Sony's CD addon. Sony also considered Nintendo a competitor long before the SNES CD. You just need to read the transcripts of how upper management grilled Ken Kuturagi for "working with the enemy" when he designed the SPC700 sound processor for the SNES. |
What I meant was, that Nintendo went to Philips behind their backs and dropped Sony suddenly when development of the CD addon and the stand-alone system was basically done.
The development of the sound-chip for the SNES was before Sony had any interest whatsoever in going into the video-game industry. They almost didn't want Kutaragi to do it. When that project became a success, Nintendo returned to Sony for the CD addon and Sony went for it. It wasn't until after that when Sony became interested in video-games and started to develop their own systems (at first together with Nintendo) and they became competitors (afterwards).
Nintendo would've kept their own line of consoles plus the CD addon but allowed Sony to use Nintendo's console technology to create their own stand-alone system that incorporated both. It's not like Nintendo wouldn't have gotten any money off of that. Nintendo would've remained 1st party, Sony would've had a device compatible with Nintendo games and both would be compatible with the CD's. Also, Nintendo would've been the one that had control over the content of both systems. Similar to how the Colecovision got an addon that allowed Atari 2600 games to be played. Or how different companies licenced Philips' tech to create their own CD-i's.
How all that would have affected the 5th generation is impossible to know. There likely wouldn't have been an N64 and PS1 as we know it.
But anyway, Nintendo wasn't only poking with sticks in Sony's side, that's true 
.
