From CGI's link:

"Kutaragi's vision isn't limited to long-term possibilities. According to the article, Kutaragi has already provided Sony with his ideas for cost reduction methods and design models for the next two years."

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6169949.html

That article is dated for '07, so two years later would be now. So was it his plan all along to release the slim this year, or was that a decision made after he was gone?

i didnt know that :O

I really like the part where they left out that the CD addon deals with Nintendo and Sega let them look at the blueprints for the MegaDrive and Super Nintendo, and that the contract they made with Nintendo would have given them rights to Nintnedo IPs had Nintendo signed it.

LMAO I think Sony sure got their revenge on Nintendo after the backstabbing. 12 years of video game domination! hahaha

Yeah sure Nintendo is back on top....for now!

Play Value also has a brief history of the Playstation,

http://www.onnetworks.com

The video is also on Youtube but i'm on a place where i can't put the direct embed.

Some people say that Sony was the one screwing Nintendo first, they're sort of right just a bit (The reason Nintendo went to Philips was that Sony was demanding complete control on the CD titles) but the problem was not who did it first, but who did it worst: Yamauchi & co. canceled all their plans in secret (not telling Sony anything), and really humilliated Sony at CES 91 when one day later of the Sony announcement Ninty reveals the partnership with Philips... They could've stopped them before the keynote, saying to them that the deal was over, but they didn't...

I respect Yamauchi and co. for all the business decisions that made Ninty great (one of them hiring the genius Shigeru Miyamoto and giving him the chance of making the sink-or-swim game that was Donkey Kong, the rest is history), but sometimes they screwed up in a lot of ways (The Sony humilliation, the alienation of 3rd party like Squaresoft), and that costed them the 1st place for 2 consecutive generations, until Satoru Iwata stepped up, now that they're in 1st place again (and making more money than they ever did), they should not repeat Yamauchi & co. mistakes, because now, in addition to Sony, there's Microsoft doing anything they can to take both companies down.

^The playvalue one is the more accurate. Thanks for posting it.

In my opinion, the only mistake Nintendo made was their choice of medium for the N64. CD's were already mature tech at that time.

Otherwise I think that third parties needs to be kept on a short leash for the sake of the custoumer. When third parties were controlled by Nintendo, there were much less shovelware, and we had no Bobby Kotick or pushes for DLC.

@KungKras

Of course, i'm not talking about the "Official Nintendo Seal of Quality" and the lockdown chip, that was good (except for the issues that caused the chip, remember blowing cartridges?), and companies that produced so many great games like Konami managed to bring the games anyways (Ultra Games)...

I'm talking about the alienation at the time of the N64... precisely because what you said: Not using CDs... That was what alienated Square, that and Yamauchi insulting them afterwards... Because of that Square didn't release any game for Nintendo until Iwata stepped in...

It would be really good to know the true history -- because this little paragraph from Wikipedia makes you wonder if this was akin to a bad marriage where both partners were unfaithful.

By the end of 1992, Sony and Nintendo reached a deal whereby the "Sony Play Station" would still have a port for SNES games, but Nintendo would own the rights and receive the bulk of the profits from the games, and the SNES would continue to use the Sony-designed audio chip. However, Sony decided in early 1993 to begin reworking the "Play Station" concept to target a new generation of hardware and software. As part of this process the SNES cartridge port was dropped and the space between the names was removed, thereby ending Nintendo's involvement with the project.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation

The above took place a year after the Nintendo CDi E3 1991 bombshell.

Mike form Morgantown

Did Yamauchi actually insult Square? That wasn't really the smartest of things he could have done.
What did he say?

The feud between Square and Yamauchi after the FF7 megaton was not a secret, Yamauchi told several times that Square would never publish a game for a Nintendo system, he also cancelled the publishing of Super Mario RPG for Europe (remember that SMRPG was developed by Square), then later with the GBA Yamauchi said that there was little chance that Square worked on the GBA...

As for the Square games on Ninty after Iwata, it was a search that i did on all the games released between Final Fantasy VII and Yamauchi's last days, and there's no Square game published on a Nintendo system in that period, the games started to come out under Iwata's current period...