Viper1 on 22 August 2008
| Sky Render said: The original SNES CD deal, bdbdbd, would have given Sony 100% of the profits off of any and all SNES CD unit sales as well as all software-related profits from SNES CD games that would otherwise have gone to Nintendo, and would give Sony full access to the Super Famicom architecture as well (meaning they could make an off-brand "SNES CD" combined unit without Nintendo's permission). The only practical options available to Nintendo were a.) nasty legal battles over the inevitable SNES CD combo unit from Sony and the huge profit losses from Sony getting all SNES CD-related revenue, b.) merger with Sony to prevent aforementioned nasty legal battles and tons of lost profits, or c.) dropping the deal. They oped for choice C, of course. |
Don't forget that everything including the console, controllers and games would have been branded Sony. The name Nintendo wouldn't have appeared on anything.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
