FortNinety
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Does anyone have that one concept picture at all handy?
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Picture of the Nintendo PlayStation
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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
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
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
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
DCX
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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.
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Funniest of all things is that the system would've been a massive failure, and would've hurt both Nintendo and Sony.
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.
Alcibiades
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Lost Weekend said:
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
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That's it!Shiggy said:Is this the right picture:
Smiles and Cries
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Shiggy said:Is this the right picture:
KAWAII!! >_< /schoolgirl
