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Sibs
I knew it Philips CDi... that's what confused me... but I didn't know Ninty went for Philips straight after Sony and Nintendo had their argument...
Anyway, you'd have thought that Ninty would have seen that CD add-ons were doomed after Segas Mega CD add-on...
Anyway, you'd have thought that Ninty would have seen that CD add-ons were doomed after Segas Mega CD add-on...
Hello everyone!
Yep they sure did!
Nintendo turned down Sony for Phillips
So this is how the story goes:-
For those of you who don’t know, Nintendo was deep in talks with both Sony and Philips regarding development of a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo. A partnership with Sony was announced, but concerned by a loss of control under Sony's potential business model, Nintendo switched to Philips at the last minute. Neither the Sony nor the Philips system ever made it to market, but the industry repercussions were severe. Sony began work on its top secret ‘Playstation X’ project the effects of that are obvious. Philips' contract with Nintendo and relationship with Sony gave limited rights to use Nintendo's characters in titles for its CD-I system.
For those of you who don’t know, Nintendo was deep in talks with both Sony and Philips regarding development of a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo. A partnership with Sony was announced, but concerned by a loss of control under Sony's potential business model, Nintendo switched to Philips at the last minute. Neither the Sony nor the Philips system ever made it to market, but the industry repercussions were severe. Sony began work on its top secret ‘Playstation X’ project the effects of that are obvious. Philips' contract with Nintendo and relationship with Sony gave limited rights to use Nintendo's characters in titles for its CD-I system.
Dam sorry it was Philips not Panasonic! You would of known that if you had read my Zelda a while ago!
I didn't know about the Panasonic bit! Oh well, you learn a new thing every day (and forget about 10 other things...)
You for got about panasonic in that as well Sibs! Because Nintendo dropped Sony because their model wasnt very stable, and went for Panasonic's CD drive. But that was never released thus Playstation and the CDi was born!
Joe Dark wrote:
> Ive just been reading Game Over and found out that the PlaySation was supposed
> to have a CD slot, the a cartridge slot for SNES games.
History Lesson:
The Playstation was designed (originally) as a Snes add-on, much like Sega had done with the Mega CD add-on and megadrive 32X add-on (both these failed, because they offered little extra, and were just costly add-ons with no revolutionary games). The Playstation was going to be a CD add-on, but when negotiations between Nintendo and Sony broke down, Sony decided to go it alone, and gaming was changed forever...
And they all lived happily ever after.
The End
> Ive just been reading Game Over and found out that the PlaySation was supposed
> to have a CD slot, the a cartridge slot for SNES games.
History Lesson:
The Playstation was designed (originally) as a Snes add-on, much like Sega had done with the Mega CD add-on and megadrive 32X add-on (both these failed, because they offered little extra, and were just costly add-ons with no revolutionary games). The Playstation was going to be a CD add-on, but when negotiations between Nintendo and Sony broke down, Sony decided to go it alone, and gaming was changed forever...
And they all lived happily ever after.
The End
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