What if Nintendo never entered the Videogame market?

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DevilRising said:

Fusioncode said:
Sony only entered the video game market because Nintendo screwed them over. And Microsoft only entered to complete with Sony. The market would be pretty much nonexistent.

While partly true, there is verifiable evidence that Sony also attempted to get into bed with Sega after the Nintendo deal fell through, and that Sega ALSO pulled out on them, because they trusted their own experience to make their own CD console. THAT is when Sony decided to make the Playstation. Nintendo certainly had a hand in that, but the stories have been rather overstated, and Nintendo's part overplayed.

Sony wouldn't be in the game business period, Ken Kutaragi wouldn't have anything to develop a sound chip for if no SNES existed, he'd likely be working on Walkmans or something and without him there's no one to urge Sony's president to go full blown in to the game business. 

Sure perhaps Sony would've been a parts supplier for game consoles, like NEC has been, but not much more than that. Sony's upper management did not want to get into the console business. It was only after they got embarrassed by Nintendo that they made the decision to go into the console biz.