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Kind of a weird title. The SNES CD was the Playstation ancestor. The CD-i was a device made independently that Nintendo partnered with after they dumped Sony.
by Tiktaalik 8y ago
Kind of a weird title. The SNES CD was the Playstation ancestor. The CD-i was a device made independently that Nintendo partnered with after they dumped Sony.
Spurned by Nintendo, Sony took their SNES CD tech and created the Playstation from it.
- MBCook 8y agoI assume they meant it as ‘the first CD console, like the PlayStation was’. I agree though, it’s misleading.
- astura 8y agoIt only beat Sega CD to the market by less than two weeks. Which, to be fair, wasn't a standalone console, it needed to attach to a Genesis, however they did sell combined (CD plus Genesis) consoles.
- MBCook 8y agoThe CDX. A great little console. Even worked fine with the 32X despite Sega’s claims to the contrary. Even if it looked crazy in that configuration.
- bsamuels 8y agoNintendo did more than just dump Sony, they humiliated them. Originally, Sony was supposed to be Nintendo's partner for the CD-i machine. Nintendo went behind Sony's back and partnered with Phillips. At the summer 1991 CES when Sony was expecting the CD-i machine and their partnership with Nintendo to be announced, Nintendo announced the product with Phillips as their partner. I can't help but wonder how much animosity towards Nintendo contributed towards the development of the Playstation 1.
- digi_owl 8y agoSupposedly that partnership lead to the only time, until recently, where Nintendo characters appeared outside of a Nintendo system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i_games_from_The_Legend_of_Zelda_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i_games_from_The_Legend_of_...
- PostOnce 8y agothere were a few exceptions in the early days when they first had their own consoles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.#Ports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.#Ports and of course before they had consoles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game)#Licensing_and_ports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game)#Licen...
- wensley 8y agoI remember thinking at the time that the PS1 controller was just like a Snes controller with extended hand grips. They just changed the out the colours / letters for shapes.
- MBCook 8y agoFrom the books I’ve read that humiliation is WHY Sony was willing to green light the PlayStation and get into games. They created the enemy that dethroned them.
- hcs 8y agoWell... PlayStation has CD-XA, which is kind of the other leg of the Sony/Philips/Nintendo triangle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM#XA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM#XA "It was intended as a bridge between CD-ROM and CD-i (Green Book) and was published by Sony and Philips in 1991."