Nintendo drops the Megaton
12-19-02 | 01:29 PM
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I agree about competition.
I also think competition between third parties is a good thing for gamers, which I why I hate to see companies like Capcom possibly getting bought.
As for games being watered down, I don't know what it is. Maybe I'm just outgrowing games. The big hyped games, even from Nintendo (my long time favorite developer), just haven't been blowing me away like they used to.
I also think competition between third parties is a good thing for gamers, which I why I hate to see companies like Capcom possibly getting bought.
As for games being watered down, I don't know what it is. Maybe I'm just outgrowing games. The big hyped games, even from Nintendo (my long time favorite developer), just haven't been blowing me away like they used to.
12-19-02 | 08:01 PM
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Originally posted by Trigger
Wow.. I read the story quite different. Nintendo contracted Sony to develop the CD addon for the SNES as you said, but then after seeing poor sales of Sega CD, Nintendo tried to reneg on the deal they had sketched out with Sony who was nearing completion of the device anyway. Nintendo's behavior towards Sony soured their relationship and it's what fueled Sony to continue developing their CD addon as a sole game console. I hadn't heard about Philips beyond them just talking to Nintendo and I think that was a generation later.
Wow.. I read the story quite different. Nintendo contracted Sony to develop the CD addon for the SNES as you said, but then after seeing poor sales of Sega CD, Nintendo tried to reneg on the deal they had sketched out with Sony who was nearing completion of the device anyway. Nintendo's behavior towards Sony soured their relationship and it's what fueled Sony to continue developing their CD addon as a sole game console. I hadn't heard about Philips beyond them just talking to Nintendo and I think that was a generation later.
Below is a link that explains it a bit better, (Nintendo's relationship with Phillips.) I had my order backwards. My main point of replying was to clarify that the "Playstation" was the add-on not a next generation console made by Sony and Nintendo together.http://www.videogames.com/features/u...tendo/5-3.html
Thanks for catching me. I won't let it happen again.
BTW, if Nintendo is Darth Vader, I guess that makes Microsoft the Emperor, the true evil.
