windbane said:
Sony co-developed the first successful optical format. Actually, wikipedia says some guy at Pioneer had the patent for it anyway. Anyway, I never said Sony was the first console to have cds, I said Nintendo copied the idea of using discs. Most likely, though, Sony was the first to develop the idea, because Nintendo was working with them to make their next console a cd-based one. They were going to call it the "Play Station." Instead, Nintendo scraps the idea and talks to Phillips, instead. So both Sony and Phillips work on the idea, and Nintendo screws them both and makes the N64. Meanwhile, Phillips releases a too-expensive cd-i and Sony releases the "Playstation" and changes videogame history. I thought that was common knowledge, sorry. It was Nintendo's biggest blunder in their history...pretty much everything related to N64. |
I know what happend, but I wouldn't call it back stabbing, or screwing. If nintendo have never done that sony would have never joined the console market, and suceeded in it. And actually looking, the turbografix-16 had a cd addon before the snes was released. So they weren't the first to come up with the idea. And like before copying isn't bad.
