happydolphin said:
No, it's Sony who "backstabbed" Nintendo by trying to slease in complete rights control on all the games on their joint platform. Wikipedia: The product, dubbed the "Play Station" was to be announced at the May 1991 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). However, when Nintendo's Hiroshi Yamauchi read the original 1988 contract between Sony and Nintendo, he realized that the earlier agreement essentially handed Sony complete control over any and all titles written on the SNES CD-ROM format. Yamauchi decided that the contract was totally unacceptable and he secretly canceled all plans for the joint Nintendo-Sony SNES CD attachment. Instead of announcing a partnership between Sony and Nintendo, at 9 am the day of the CES, Nintendo chairman Howard Lincoln stepped onto the stage and revealed that Nintendo was now allied with Philips, and Nintendo was planning on abandoning all the previous work Nintendo and Sony had accomplished. Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa had, unbeknownst to Sony, flown to Philips headquarters in Europe and formed an alliance of a decidedly different nature—one that would give Nintendo total control over its licenses on Philips machines. And the funniest bit is that Nintendo would have had a CD-ROM enabled system had this not happened. It left such a sour taste in Yamauchi's mouth that he decided to reject the idea altogether. We know how that turned out... (oh cartriges |
)form the description, it wouldn't be exactly a "nintendo" CD-ROM system.
