Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
CD games, they had the rights for CD games. They wanted to be more than a one time manufacturer. For that one system. Nintendo already had a patent on all games made with their cartridges. Not only did 3rd parties have to pay a royalty for that, but also to put the game on the consoles and they had to follow Nintendo's explicit rules such as no more than 4 games a year irc. 3rd parties were effectively owned by Nintendo. Not to mention the contract was only canceled after the E3 reveal of the system. Sony went to E3, revealed the Nintendo Playstation, and then Nintendo announced that they were working with Phillips. Nintendo didn't want to comprise and wanted complete ownership of the system with Sony just manfacturing for them. That's a heartless move from Nintendo imo. What they did was the equivalent of not only standing a girl up at prom but showing up there with another date. |
So you think Nintendo went to sony and sayd.. "We like you to make a cd drive for our next console.. and we give all the rights"
And Nintendo did not own "cartridges" both sega and atari had them to.. (but yes Nintendo made 3rd parties pay for use them on thire system)
Nintendo canceled the contract after seing, what sony was about to,
And 100% sure Sony knew Nintendo would cancel, when it was clear to them that Sony had found a loophole, that would give them theese "rights"
Train: You could call it very very smart.. but still kind off back stabing