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windbane on 13 May 2008
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RolStoppable said:
Final-Fan said:
Prodigy_BE said:
Oops.

Well, I was right about Trip Hawkins.

And strange that it took so many posts to note the Nintendo fail. If they had gone along with Sony then, Ninti fanboys would have their own army by now.
Backing out of the agreement wasn't what made it a colossal blunder -- apparently the contract gave Sony huge rights or royalties or something over the software that would go on the CD add-on. It was the way Nintendo handled it that was terrible and possibly goaded Sony into doing what they did. And then doing it all again with Philips.

As far as I know, the reason why Nintendo backed out of the contract with Philips was that they saw the Sega CD flopping and thus there wasn't any need for a CD add-on anymore.

However, Nintendo had to give something to Philips for backing out of the contract which resulted in Philips being allowed to make some Zelda games for their own system, the cd-i. At least that seems to be the most reasonable explanation why these horrible games exist.


Hum...interesting theory. Makes sense. Still counts a big mistake for Nintendo at not realizing the difference between an add-on with little support and a new system. They went to 2 different companies for a disc solution before just giving up...