It's mostly just different tastes bro. In that day, jrpgs and japan-made games were big in Japan because they pleased the people that were from there, whereas american games much less. It could be demoralizing but you can't take it personally it really was just their tastes at the time. I personally am Canadian and I love japanese games, so I'm not sure if it's fully race or just tastes.

But wasn't Nintendo the one who "backstabbed" Sony by changing their plans at the last minute when they joined forces to make a console? Thanks to that we have te beautiful Philiphs CD-i and the Zelda CD-i games!

I don't think low sales means they treat Nintendo like dirt.

It´s funny, the 'Playstation' was originally supposed to be the SNES with a CD-ROM drive.

Sony is Japanese too. Just saying...

No, it's Sony who "backstabbed" Nintendo by trying to slease in complete rights control on all the games on their joint platform. Wikipedia:

The product, dubbed the "Play Station" was to be announced at the May 1991 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). However, when Nintendo's Hiroshi Yamauchi read the original 1988 contract between Sony and Nintendo, he realized that the earlier agreement essentially handed Sony complete control over any and all titles written on the SNES CD-ROM format. Yamauchi decided that the contract was totally unacceptable and he secretly canceled all plans for the joint Nintendo-Sony SNES CD attachment. Instead of announcing a partnership between Sony and Nintendo, at 9 am the day of the CES, Nintendo chairman Howard Lincoln stepped onto the stage and revealed that Nintendo was now allied with Philips, and Nintendo was planning on abandoning all the previous work Nintendo and Sony had accomplished. Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa had, unbeknownst to Sony, flown to Philips headquarters in Europe and formed an alliance of a decidedly different nature—one that would give Nintendo total control over its licenses on Philips machines.

And the funniest bit is that Nintendo would have had a CD-ROM enabled system had this not happened. It left such a sour taste in Yamauchi's mouth that he decided to reject the idea altogether. We know how that turned out... (oh cartriges )

what did you expect? square gave Nintendo the middle finger cause of cartridges. Pretty much all the meaningful JRPG's were on PS1. If Nintendo would have used CD's back then N64 would have dominated.

My god! Such an evil corporation!

Nintendo did their things too. In the Nes era they had a very strict licensiing measure and they where accused of anti thrust behaviour. I'm not saying they should have signed i'm just saying they are also not that good

Besides thanks to that we got the Zelda CD-i games...

Indeed.

My two favorite consoles ever.

It has nothing to do with the fact that Nintendo didn't "backstab" Sony at all in that case you mentioned.

And no, Nintendo is not perfect, for what it has to do with anything.