Sony came up with the idea of the disc drive, it only made sense them wanting more profit from the part they designed. It was just a disgusting move by Nintendo to go behind their backs and close a deal with another company, while not telling Sony.
Ken Kutaragi securing an inroad with Nintendo, by going behind his own company’s back to negotiate the SNES’s sound chip, was clever risk-taking.
Sony as a corporate entity writing the SNES-CD “Play Station” deal ambiguously, so they could license games without Nintendo’s approval, was greed that borders on fraud.
Nintendo informing Sony they’d cancelled that deal and partnered with Philips, at the Consumer Electronics Show, after Sony’s SNES-CD presentation, was straight-up dramatic bitch behavior.
Ken dragging the project into a full platform out of pride and spite is honestly just impressive.
I mean, Nintendo believed in them, until that failed.
That was because Nintendo went behind Sonys back on the deal. They were trying to eat both pies.
But also because Sony was trying to claim a bigger slice of the pie from CD game sales. It’s both companies being shitty.
Sony came up with the idea of the disc drive, it only made sense them wanting more profit from the part they designed. It was just a disgusting move by Nintendo to go behind their backs and close a deal with another company, while not telling Sony.
Ken Kutaragi securing an inroad with Nintendo, by going behind his own company’s back to negotiate the SNES’s sound chip, was clever risk-taking.
Sony as a corporate entity writing the SNES-CD “Play Station” deal ambiguously, so they could license games without Nintendo’s approval, was greed that borders on fraud.
Nintendo informing Sony they’d cancelled that deal and partnered with Philips, at the Consumer Electronics Show, after Sony’s SNES-CD presentation, was straight-up dramatic bitch behavior.
Ken dragging the project into a full platform out of pride and spite is honestly just impressive.