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Nintendo 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
by bsamuels 8y ago
Nintendo 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.