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Originally Posted by oblar
if my memory serves me correctly, Nintendo didn't scrap the idea to remain cartridge-based. Sony had a deal with Nintendo then decided to make their own system (The PSX) and in doing so basically became Nintendo's competition.
this sort of betrayal (since Sony was to provide nintendo with the CD-roms etc for the new system) made Nintendo a little irritated and that kept them on the cartridge route. I believe if Sony hadn't decided to make the PSX and just continue with Nintendo then Nintendo would have gone CD long ago.
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betrayal!?  You got it wrong. It was the other way around. Sony decided to make the PS after Nintendo pulled the plug on the deal. If you read EGM(issue 186 with MGS3 cover), theres a article about it. If you don't have it heres what it said.
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As inconceivable as it may sound, there was a point in time when Mario and crash Bandicoot could have appeared in the same game. Back in 1988, Nintendo and Sony signed an agreement for Sony to create a CD-Rom for the Super NES code-named the "PlayStation." But after three years of work, Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi pulled the plug on the deal in early 1991. Why? Yamauchi reportedly couldn't bear the thought of helping Sony enter the game business.
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Last edited by Slayer; 11-19-2004 at 05:26 PM..
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