sc94597 said:
windbane said:
sc94597 said:
windbane said:
sc94597 said:
windbane said:
sc94597 said:
windbane said:
Sony created optical discs parallel to Phillips. They didn't copy anybody with that.
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Actually laser disc was created by MCA and like I said before they weren't the first to bring it to consoles.
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Ok, specifically CDs, then. The first successful optical disc. The Phillips cd-i was based on cds...co-developed with Sony. We all know the history with Nintendo back-stabbing Sony, going to Phillips, then not using either one.
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Well then sony didn't invent discs, and they weren't the first to bring it into gaming. Also nintendo backstabbing sony?
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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.
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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.
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If Sony hadn't released their own system, it would have been wasted development. It was a betrayal. Nintendo backed out of their agreement and went to another company. It worked out for gamers, but it certainly didn't work out for Nintendo. The turbografx-16 cd wasn't out long before the cd-i. And again, Sony co-developed CDs and made it successful. It's the same as giving Nintendo credit for touchscreens.
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The turbografx 16 cd came out 1989, I beleive a decent amount of years before the CD-i. It doesn't matter nintendo brought something new to gaming, sony just made it more popular, and there isn't anything wrong with that.
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2 years. Nintendo didn't bring it to gaming. No matter how you word it, though, and no matter who did it first, Nintendo copied the concept with the Gamecube, and did it badly (not as much space as DVDs that every other system used).
At least we agree there is nothing wrong with copying, especially if someone else can do it better.
