in case anybody is still doubting: Big N developed the SNES CD platform together with Sony; when Big N just dumped the project, Sony took over and released it as the now famous Playstation. Maybe the biggest mistake Nintendo ever pulled...
Hardly. Nintendo has always stayed a thriving profitable company despite the Playstations success. The substandard performance of their home consoles in the market and pressure from Sony is what drove them to search for something beyond raw performance in this console generation. I would say it worked out well for them.
You can call it a mistake, but if that mistake hadn't happened, we'd never have seen Playstation or PS2...Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Twisted Metal, final Fantasy 7, etc, etc would have been lost in time.
Thank god developers are able to split from larger companies and push forward with their ideas. Gives us more diversity.
I don't see why these games wouldn't have been possible on another console, say for example the Dreamcast (which Sony killed) or any other system around. square enix, konami, capcom, they all developed for Nintendo before. sony just were the first to use standard CDs and feature 3D capabilities for a reasonable price. maybe it wasn't so much Nintendo's failure, but it certainly was the near-death for Sega.
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well, I just knew I've seen this thing before:
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040429/scej09.jpg
in case anybody is still doubting: Big N developed the SNES CD platform together with Sony; when Big N just dumped the project, Sony took over and released it as the now famous Playstation. Maybe the biggest mistake Nintendo ever pulled...
Hardly. Nintendo has always stayed a thriving profitable company despite the Playstations success. The substandard performance of their home consoles in the market and pressure from Sony is what drove them to search for something beyond raw performance in this console generation. I would say it worked out well for them.
You can call it a mistake, but if that mistake hadn't happened, we'd never have seen Playstation or PS2...Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Twisted Metal, final Fantasy 7, etc, etc would have been lost in time.
Thank god developers are able to split from larger companies and push forward with their ideas. Gives us more diversity.
I don't see why these games wouldn't have been possible on another console, say for example the Dreamcast (which Sony killed) or any other system around. square enix, konami, capcom, they all developed for Nintendo before. sony just were the first to use standard CDs and feature 3D capabilities for a reasonable price.
maybe it wasn't so much Nintendo's failure, but it certainly was the near-death for Sega.
just fyi, FF7 was originally for n64 until they decided to switch to ps