SegataSanshiro 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 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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Something misssing in your post. SEGA of America Tom Kalinskie proposed to Sony they work together on a console and sent them a spec sheet. SEGA of Japan hated the idea. Talks ended. Sony used the specs Tom proposed for PS1. Sega of Japan made the Saturn..a system that technically was a beast but insanely hard to program for. Nintendo also went cartridges with N64. If N64 used CD's who knows where PS1 would be.
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Kalinskie is the greatest marketing genius of the 20's century... hands down.
