FortNinety
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Does anyone have that one concept picture at all handy?
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.
DopeyFish said:a quick google
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"...the convergence machines Nintendo today criticizes, were once the waters Nintendo intentionally sailed...."
Lost Weekend said: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.
That's it!Shiggy said:Is this the right picture:
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Shiggy said:Is this the right picture:
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Shiggy said:@MrSingh
Really? Did he say that?
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"