The Failure Of The GameCube Really Is Where It All Went Wrong

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Johnw1104 said:

GhaudePhaede010 said:

I understand why it happened. But Nintendo could have tied it up in litigation which kept Sony from releasing a console at all (SNES CD or Playstation). Instead, they broke the contract and it crushed them.

Sony's piggy banks dwarfed Nintendo at that point, despite Nintendo's success. Sony was on top of the world in multiple markets in the 90's.

Basically, Nintendo didn't read the fine print that Sony slipped in (this whole episode reads as one experienced company taking advantage of an amateur) and likely couldn't have had much success in court given the language of the agreement clearly favored Sony. Nintendo had little choice but to back out at that point, and Sony had learned all they needed to about making a video game console from the experience.

If Nintendo takes Sony to court and even DELAYS the Playstation from launching, the history of gaming is changed dramatically. What you do not understand is that my post is not about NIntendo winning with the console, it is about stopping Sony. You are looking at this the wrong way. If Sony has to wait even one additional year (which we all know the lawsuit would have taken longer and could have killed off as many as five years) before launching the console, everything that happened for Playstation would not have happened.Nintendo made all the wrong moves and allowed Sony to take that technology and create the franchise that has essentially killed Nintendo for the better part of twenty years.

Nintendo did not have to back out. I understand why they backed out. I am saying that they made the wrong decision. They basically tried to say they were the big dogs and Sony would not be able to do anything about the situation and how wrong they were. Regardless of how you paint the picture, the fact is that this decision is the one that destroyed Nintendo.