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[FortNinety]

Does anyone have that one concept picture at all handy?

 

[DopeyFish]

a quick google

 

[neptunes]

 

[GigaDrive]

that's not it DopeyFish and Neptunes, that's a picture of Nintendo's 32-Bit ND (Nintendo Disc) which was their 3rd CD-ROM prototype unit.

the Nintendo Play Station (space intentional) looks different and so far I have not been able to find a picture of it. there was a link with a picture on the old GAF but that's long gone.

the Nintendo Play Station is an all-in-one console, not the ND CD-ROM addon

there were three SNES CD-ROM systems

http://www.nintendoland.com/home2.htm?snes/snescdr.htm

To sort things out there were 3 different Nintendo CD consoles:
1. The Playstation which Nintendo and Sony were planning on based on the their deal with Nintendo from 1988.
2. The Nintendo/Philips CD-ROM add-on based on the agreement between Philips and Nintendo around the time of the C.E.S. in June 1991.
3. The Philips CD-ROM XA / SNES Nintendo Disk which were a product of the cooperation betwen both Nintendo, Sony and Philips. Based on a deal struck around October - November 1992.

so that picture posted twice is the 3rd unit, the ND, something of a joint effort between Nintendo Philips and Sony.

the Sony-Nintendo Play Station was a 16-Bit system, its format was called Super Disc

 

[Doogdogg]

a quick google

Kinda ugly.

 

[DCX]

Sony was supposed to make an add-ob CD-Drive for SNES, in turn Nintendo was going to give Sony the SNES tech so they can make thier own system which is basically a SNES with the CD add on built in called PlayStation. What the world would be if this happened. How ironic that the "king" of videogames paved the way for the current "King" of videogames.

DCX

 

[mjq jazz bar]

Funniest of all things is that the system would've been a massive failure, and would've hurt both Nintendo and Sony.

 

[GDGF]

And if it was a success it would have hurt Nintendo. As I recall, Sony was to get the bulk of the royalties from the CD-Rom format, and Nintendo would have recieved the cart royalties. We all know that given a choice of medium (if the system took off early enough) that licensees would have naturally gravitated towards the CD ROM format, due to cost issues and turnaround and all those other lessons we learned from the 32/64 bit gen. The Playstation would have been a moneymaking parasite in the service of Sony, leaching royalties from Nintendo and giving Sony an even earlier foothold in the video game industry.

 

[GDGF]

accessing bump drive...

 

[Suikoguy]

Yes, but would it have bumpmapping? </sarcasm>

 

[Shinobi]

"...the convergence machines Nintendo today criticizes, were once the waters Nintendo intentionally sailed...."

Heh...

 

[MrSingh]

Kutaragi actually has a Nintendo/Sony Playstation prototype sitting in his office.

 

[Shiggy]

@MrSingh
Really? Did he say that?

 

[Shiggy]

Is this the right picture:

 

[Alcibiades]

And if it was a success it would have hurt Nintendo. As I recall, Sony was to get the bulk of the royalties from the CD-Rom format, and Nintendo would have recieved the cart royalties. We all know that given a choice of medium (if the system took off early enough) that licensees would have naturally gravitated towards the CD ROM format, due to cost issues and turnaround and all those other lessons we learned from the 32/64 bit gen. The Playstation would have been a moneymaking parasite in the service of Sony, leaching royalties from Nintendo and giving Sony an even earlier foothold in the video game industry.

yeah, good thing Nintendo pulled out on time, if you read Steve Kents book, it talks about how Sony was becoming a dangerous partner seeking far more control than Nintendo realized...

Better to be an independent #2 than a 2nd party #1...

 

[Kobun Heat]

Is this the right picture:

That's it!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Is this the right picture:

KAWAII!! >_< /schoolgirl

 

[neptunes]

sex

sex

 

[DCX]

looks cool.

DCX

 

[MrSingh]

@MrSingh
Really? Did he say that?

someone who visited his office saw it. "like a prize trophy"

 

[teiresias]

From the article posted by Gigadrive:

Just for the fairness of thing I'll end this article with a quote from Nintendo's own Nintendo Power article, "Nintendo Power" publication, "The next time when someone tells you that CD-ROM is the wave of the future, tell them that the future doesn't belong to the snails"

Hehe!!

 

[Mejilan]

That thing is hideous.