shoichi said:
Kerotan said:
Never knew this. Fair play to sony for satying fuck them and just going onto dominate the market.
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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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Thanks for this. Very informing.
S.T.A.G.E. said:
shoichi said:
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.
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Agreed. Kutaragi is the king. Sony owes kutaragi everything right now.
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He was also responsible for nearly killing playstation with the ps3.
Pyro as Bill said:
I have tons of ill will for Sony but not because of the 90s. I liked them in the 90s but now I don't like them in the 90s or any other time period.
Awful 'games'. Using story and character as crutches for gameplay shouldn't be allowed. If God of War was on Switch, the game would be over after pressing the + button twice. Flower is an overhyped 3d version of centipede. All the 'muh Clementine' crap in Last of Us made me nauseous.
Apple makes better music players, MS makes better computer platforms, Disney makes better movies and Nintendo makes better games. |
I hate your honesty as much as you love sony!
