who is to blame for the Nintendo/Sony break up in the early 90's...answer inside.
of Nintendo/ Sonys deal to create the ultamate game system way back in the early 90s. " The Nintendo Playstation " it was called.
This is a huge misunderstanding of the events that transpired.
(for those of you that dont know, here is a little history lesson)
Nintendo went to sony in hopes of a joint venture to create a CD add on to the super nintendo. i believe it was in 1991 or 92, im not sure, i have the magazine somewhere that had the"breakthrough news". that news.. was that sony and nintendo were to team up and squash the "sega CD system" and other cd based systems that were coming out.
the "SNES playstation" was to be an add-on peripheral that would allow developers to created games that would also utilize the cd to create better graphics for the games. it was to be attatched to the bottom of the SNES ...where that port is , and would be the "next big thing" in games. it was going to help nintendo blow away the other cd based systems that were on the verge of taking over the market.
during the development stage of the "nintendo playstation" nintendo started to develope new technologies of their own that would eventually lead to the creation of the N64, thiw new system that they had in mind would not need a cdrom add-on. Or so they thought. ( fast forward to the late 90s/ ...
the N64 Hyperdrive or what ever they were going to call it is developled for game enhancements...its true folks, they were going to release a cd add-on to the N64 too... i chatted with the prez of nintendo canada on a radio call in show the after the N64 came out. Nintendo ended up releasing the expansion pak instead, lol)
anyway...Nintendo decided that they didnt need sony anymore, now that they were developing the N64.
Nintendo backed out of the deal with sony, there was a fine to be paid for breaking the contract... it was the cost of the development of the playstation up till that point.
nintendo payed it, the two companies went thier separate ways. Sony continued to develope the playstaion themselves and took it to sony in a big way. they killed the super nintendo and the other game consoles out there.
to this day, many hardcore nintendo gamers blame sony for the split, but all you have to blame is nintendo. Nintendos statement on thier decision to stop the "nintendo playstation" is something i will never in my life forget...it was one of the most retarded thing i have read from a company that prides itself on being "ahead of the pack" (that was also a quote from the prez onthe radioshow)
and the quote is....
"we ended our venture with sony because...well quite frankly...there is no future for CD's in the videogame industry."
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what a dumbass!!!!!!!!!!!!!
many of you may still have the old EGMs and GamePro mags that have those articles in them. the official playstation magazine also touched on the subject in some of thier mags that looked back on the history of the playstation. look it up. its out there in the web.
thus ends this session of gaming history 101.
Sony is not the traitor. anyone that says otherwise should research the history between Nintendo and Sony before making such statements. and that ended the one and only time sony ever made any hardware for nintendo.
