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Just think for a second if Nintendo didnít exist.
Do you think it would be ok in the Gaming world?
Do you think that Playstation as many know and love would be around?
Yes?.
Er... well think again!. Or you could just read on.
Could we possibly see this sort of Hardware alliance again in videogames? Letís face it, the Playstation as we see it today would never had existed without the expertise of Nintendo.
As strange as that may sound to some, it is true!, Nintendo and Sony where in their glory with each other working closely, in fact, ëToo closelyí on the advancement of the Super Nintendo.
The PlayStation is the product of the un-consummated relationship between the Sony Corp and Nintendo of Japan, that is a well publicised and well known fact. The PlayStation was the name and designation of the ëSNES CD-ROMí. I can happily remember reading reports of this supposedly wonderful add-on and itís possibilities. I saw diagrams and Sony Sketches of it and it kept gamers across the world waiting with wonder and baited breath.
With the excitement, NCL and the Sony Corp continued to be Jointly combined, in a strong effort, in order to create this CD-ROM peripheral for the SNES; for the purpose of competing with the Sega-CD.
Sketches made it to the worldís gaming press of ëThe Playstationí sitting snugly attached to Nintendoís system, with even photoís of Super Nes Joypadís with the Playstation logo upon them. This got more people excited, However, NCL suddenly defaulted on the agreement and re-announced the SNES CD, to be developed by Sony Rivalís- Phillips Electronics, a European corporation.
Sony where reportedly furious and the SNES- Playstation never came to fruition. However Sony where left in the lurch with an effectively completed machine, with Nintendo expertise and thinking in itís innards.
Nintendo wasnít expecting their joint adventure to go Solo. Who could blame Sony into thinking of releasing it? it was stuck with a working model of the SNES Playstation, with a lot of too much hard work woven like a spell about it.
And so the Major turning point happened, the work on pursuing the project as a stand alone console started to materialise. Sony Corp with Nintendo secrets in hand enhanced it, combined it with LSI Logic Technologies for chip design, and finally released it into competition with the 'next generation' consoles, with its sights set primarily upon the looming Nintendo Ultra 64, itís sole intention for competition and the thoughts that the Playstation would do well. And didnít it just!
So think about it again. A world without Nintendo.
And think again what things it helped to bring into this world..... intentionally or not.
Do you think it would be ok in the Gaming world?
Do you think that Playstation as many know and love would be around?
Yes?.
Er... well think again!. Or you could just read on.
Could we possibly see this sort of Hardware alliance again in videogames? Letís face it, the Playstation as we see it today would never had existed without the expertise of Nintendo.
As strange as that may sound to some, it is true!, Nintendo and Sony where in their glory with each other working closely, in fact, ëToo closelyí on the advancement of the Super Nintendo.
The PlayStation is the product of the un-consummated relationship between the Sony Corp and Nintendo of Japan, that is a well publicised and well known fact. The PlayStation was the name and designation of the ëSNES CD-ROMí. I can happily remember reading reports of this supposedly wonderful add-on and itís possibilities. I saw diagrams and Sony Sketches of it and it kept gamers across the world waiting with wonder and baited breath.
With the excitement, NCL and the Sony Corp continued to be Jointly combined, in a strong effort, in order to create this CD-ROM peripheral for the SNES; for the purpose of competing with the Sega-CD.
Sketches made it to the worldís gaming press of ëThe Playstationí sitting snugly attached to Nintendoís system, with even photoís of Super Nes Joypadís with the Playstation logo upon them. This got more people excited, However, NCL suddenly defaulted on the agreement and re-announced the SNES CD, to be developed by Sony Rivalís- Phillips Electronics, a European corporation.
Sony where reportedly furious and the SNES- Playstation never came to fruition. However Sony where left in the lurch with an effectively completed machine, with Nintendo expertise and thinking in itís innards.
Nintendo wasnít expecting their joint adventure to go Solo. Who could blame Sony into thinking of releasing it? it was stuck with a working model of the SNES Playstation, with a lot of too much hard work woven like a spell about it.
And so the Major turning point happened, the work on pursuing the project as a stand alone console started to materialise. Sony Corp with Nintendo secrets in hand enhanced it, combined it with LSI Logic Technologies for chip design, and finally released it into competition with the 'next generation' consoles, with its sights set primarily upon the looming Nintendo Ultra 64, itís sole intention for competition and the thoughts that the Playstation would do well. And didnít it just!
So think about it again. A world without Nintendo.
And think again what things it helped to bring into this world..... intentionally or not.
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A world without consoles might not be so bad. Consoles are more and more draining the life out of potentially good PC games. Red Faction the most recent example, maybe a five hour game with low plot, bad characters and not so good level design is acceptable for the Playstation but when it arrives exactly the same on the PC it deserves to die (and worse). Soon the X-Box will be released and will be taking what could have been big PC games, such as Halo. Will the same happen where a game is built for a console and not improved to go onto the PC? I'm not so sure with Halo, since the X-Box will be quite good spec and so if Halo uses all that the X-Box can give it could be released with little modification and fit nicely onto the PC since it will use a lot of the processing power availiable. Still, it is a fear and we'll have to see how it turns out.
Nintendo screwed up. The kicked Sony out on their ear because they didn't think that cd based consoles would work after the failure of the CDi. Sony, with their infinate electronics wisdom decided that Nintendo were making such a big mistake that they could go it alone, they did, and Nintendo suffered from a massive misunderstanding of the prospects of CDs. As they were eventually the only company left in the cartridge market, it was costing them a packet, so every game cartridge had to be officially made and licenced by them. This incenced developers, and also lost them people such as Square who weren't happy with the limitations of a cartridge based system.
Only time will tell if the same capacity problems will return to haunt the Gamecube with their main competitors offering much more space on a single disc, and in a standard format. If Nintendo start charging the earth for their Matsushita optical discs, then they may face the same battles as before.
Only time will tell if the same capacity problems will return to haunt the Gamecube with their main competitors offering much more space on a single disc, and in a standard format. If Nintendo start charging the earth for their Matsushita optical discs, then they may face the same battles as before.
No. Phillips made the CDi. A console so poor that you've probably not heard pf it.
Nintendo made the N64 with a little hand from Silicon.
Panasonic are in with the Gamecube though.
Nintendo made the N64 with a little hand from Silicon.
Panasonic are in with the Gamecube though.
so philips made the N64, I always thought it was panasonic :-)
True about the cash. But not about Panasonic. As Panasonic where too involved in the 3DO.
It was Philips they ventured with, but abandoned them too because people wanted a totally new console as the SNES CD seemed a bit late then.
It was Philips they ventured with, but abandoned them too because people wanted a totally new console as the SNES CD seemed a bit late then.
When Sony asked for their well earned cash, greedy nintendo wanted it all for themselves but Sony wouldn't have it,so Nintendo ditched the entire project :-)
Sony threatend to sue but then decided to make a new console fresh from scratch which later became the Playstation.
Nintendo then went off to panasonic and made the N64.
:-D
Sony threatend to sue but then decided to make a new console fresh from scratch which later became the Playstation.
Nintendo then went off to panasonic and made the N64.
:-D
Just think for a second if Nintendo didnít exist.
Do you think it would be ok in the Gaming world?
Do you think that Playstation as many know and love would be around?
Yes?.
Er... well think again!. Or you could just read on.
Could we possibly see this sort of Hardware alliance again in videogames? Letís face it, the Playstation as we see it today would never had existed without the expertise of Nintendo.
As strange as that may sound to some, it is true!, Nintendo and Sony where in their glory with each other working closely, in fact, ëToo closelyí on the advancement of the Super Nintendo.
The PlayStation is the product of the un-consummated relationship between the Sony Corp and Nintendo of Japan, that is a well publicised and well known fact. The PlayStation was the name and designation of the ëSNES CD-ROMí. I can happily remember reading reports of this supposedly wonderful add-on and itís possibilities. I saw diagrams and Sony Sketches of it and it kept gamers across the world waiting with wonder and baited breath.
With the excitement, NCL and the Sony Corp continued to be Jointly combined, in a strong effort, in order to create this CD-ROM peripheral for the SNES; for the purpose of competing with the Sega-CD.
Sketches made it to the worldís gaming press of ëThe Playstationí sitting snugly attached to Nintendoís system, with even photoís of Super Nes Joypadís with the Playstation logo upon them. This got more people excited, However, NCL suddenly defaulted on the agreement and re-announced the SNES CD, to be developed by Sony Rivalís- Phillips Electronics, a European corporation.
Sony where reportedly furious and the SNES- Playstation never came to fruition. However Sony where left in the lurch with an effectively completed machine, with Nintendo expertise and thinking in itís innards.
Nintendo wasnít expecting their joint adventure to go Solo. Who could blame Sony into thinking of releasing it? it was stuck with a working model of the SNES Playstation, with a lot of too much hard work woven like a spell about it.
And so the Major turning point happened, the work on pursuing the project as a stand alone console started to materialise. Sony Corp with Nintendo secrets in hand enhanced it, combined it with LSI Logic Technologies for chip design, and finally released it into competition with the 'next generation' consoles, with its sights set primarily upon the looming Nintendo Ultra 64, itís sole intention for competition and the thoughts that the Playstation would do well. And didnít it just!
So think about it again. A world without Nintendo.
And think again what things it helped to bring into this world..... intentionally or not.
Do you think it would be ok in the Gaming world?
Do you think that Playstation as many know and love would be around?
Yes?.
Er... well think again!. Or you could just read on.
Could we possibly see this sort of Hardware alliance again in videogames? Letís face it, the Playstation as we see it today would never had existed without the expertise of Nintendo.
As strange as that may sound to some, it is true!, Nintendo and Sony where in their glory with each other working closely, in fact, ëToo closelyí on the advancement of the Super Nintendo.
The PlayStation is the product of the un-consummated relationship between the Sony Corp and Nintendo of Japan, that is a well publicised and well known fact. The PlayStation was the name and designation of the ëSNES CD-ROMí. I can happily remember reading reports of this supposedly wonderful add-on and itís possibilities. I saw diagrams and Sony Sketches of it and it kept gamers across the world waiting with wonder and baited breath.
With the excitement, NCL and the Sony Corp continued to be Jointly combined, in a strong effort, in order to create this CD-ROM peripheral for the SNES; for the purpose of competing with the Sega-CD.
Sketches made it to the worldís gaming press of ëThe Playstationí sitting snugly attached to Nintendoís system, with even photoís of Super Nes Joypadís with the Playstation logo upon them. This got more people excited, However, NCL suddenly defaulted on the agreement and re-announced the SNES CD, to be developed by Sony Rivalís- Phillips Electronics, a European corporation.
Sony where reportedly furious and the SNES- Playstation never came to fruition. However Sony where left in the lurch with an effectively completed machine, with Nintendo expertise and thinking in itís innards.
Nintendo wasnít expecting their joint adventure to go Solo. Who could blame Sony into thinking of releasing it? it was stuck with a working model of the SNES Playstation, with a lot of too much hard work woven like a spell about it.
And so the Major turning point happened, the work on pursuing the project as a stand alone console started to materialise. Sony Corp with Nintendo secrets in hand enhanced it, combined it with LSI Logic Technologies for chip design, and finally released it into competition with the 'next generation' consoles, with its sights set primarily upon the looming Nintendo Ultra 64, itís sole intention for competition and the thoughts that the Playstation would do well. And didnít it just!
So think about it again. A world without Nintendo.
And think again what things it helped to bring into this world..... intentionally or not.
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