S.T.A.G.E. said:
shoichi said:
It didn't quite play out this way.
Condensed...
- Sony's Kutaragi seen daughter play on the Famicom and got interested.
- Kutaragi developed in secrecy the audio system for the SNES that Sony execs didn't approve of when they found out, due to disinterest in the video game industry.
- Kutaragi ended up convincing them to continue on the project
- Nintendo and Sony later then created a partnership for a CD-based addon that would play both SNES and SNES-CD Roms, that would be sold by Sony.
- The contract between the two was that Sony would be the licensee and have pretty much complete control over the SNES-CD format, which worried Nintendo.
- Nintendo then cancels out of the agreement with Sony and then goes to Phillips for a CD-Rom addon that would have Nintendo in more control, which flopped hard.
- Sony and Kutaragi continue working on the project which then becomes the Play Station.
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They walked out of them before they revealed the product at ces. Where is this in your condensed version?
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Why does that matter? As I said it was just a condensed version. Nintendo did wrong by breaking a contract, but it ended up creating competition for the industry to move it forward.
And I didn't correct you about the fact Kutaragi was at odds over working in secret on the audio chip in the SNES and would/could have been fired over that. If it wasn't for Kutaragi convincing Sony execs to continue the project, Sony and Playstation may have never had a deal with the CD-ROM addon later down the line. The reason Play Station exists in large part is due to Kutaragi.
