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| 90snostalga:
--- Quote from: soera on January 30, 2014, 08:23:06 pm ---Well, Turf is right honestly. PlayStation was the brainchild of Ken Kutaragi, a Sony executive who had just come out of his hardware engineering division at that time and would later be dubbed as "The Father of the PlayStation".[13][14] The console's origins date back to 1988 where it was originally a joint project between Nintendo and Sony to create a CD-ROM for the Super Famicom.[15] Although Nintendo denied the existence of the Sony deal as late as March 1991,[16] Sony revealed a Super Famicom with a built-in CD-ROM drive (that incorporated Green Book technology or CDi) at the Consumer Electronics Show in June 1991. However, a day after the announcement at CES Nintendo announced that it would be breaking its partnership with Sony, opting to go with Philips instead but using the same technology.[17] The deal was broken by Nintendo after they were unable to come to an agreement on how revenue would be split between the two companies.[17] The breaking of the partnership infuriated Sony President Norio Ohga, who responded by appointing Kutaragi with the responsibility of developing of the PlayStation project to rival Nintendo.[17] At that time, negotiations were still on-going between Nintendo and Sony, with Nintendo offering Sony a "non-gaming role" regarding their new partnership with Philips. This proposal was swiftly rejected by Kutaragi who was facing increasing criticism over his work with regard to entering the video game industry from within Sony. Negotiations officially ended in May 1992 and in order to decide the fate of the PlayStation project, a meeting was held in June 1992, consisting of Sony President Ohga, PlayStation Head Kutaragi and several senior members of Sony's board. At the meeting, Kutaragi unveiled a proprietary CD-ROM-based system he had been working on which involved playing video games with 3D graphics to the board. Eventually, Sony President Ohga decided to retain the project after being reminded by Kutaragi of the humiliation he suffered from Nintendo. Nevertheless, due to strong opposition from a majority present at the meeting as well as widespread internal opposition to the project by the older generation of Sony executives, Kutaragi and his team had to be shifted from Sony's headquarters to Sony Music, a completely separate financial entity owned by Sony, so as to retain the project and maintain relationships with Philips for the MMCD development project (which helped lead to the creation of the DVD). Heh went ahead and quoted the info from Wiki --- End quote --- Ah okay. I did learn something here about Nintendo and Sony teaming up to release the playstation; however, in what world was the 64 a failure? I know for me and all my friends, we played the 64 90 percent more than the playstation. We love even to this day, we still play the 64 sometimes. Do you mean the sales were bad for the 64? I never thought that the 64 was bad. |
| redblaze57:
--- Quote from: soera on January 30, 2014, 08:13:03 pm ---How can you hate the PS1? It has at least 1 game for every single player type on the planet and its the originator of the most amazing controllers of all time. :D --- End quote --- ??? it originated the Gamecube Controller??? |
| 90snostalga:
--- Quote from: redblaze57 on January 30, 2014, 08:33:37 pm --- --- Quote from: soera on January 30, 2014, 08:13:03 pm ---How can you hate the PS1? It has at least 1 game for every single player type on the planet and its the originator of the most amazing controllers of all time. :D --- End quote --- ??? it originated the Gamecube Controller??? --- End quote --- You guys are losing me now. I think the 64 and playstation is awesome but I do choose the 64 over the playstation. |
| soera:
--- Quote from: redblaze57 on January 30, 2014, 08:33:37 pm --- --- Quote from: soera on January 30, 2014, 08:13:03 pm ---How can you hate the PS1? It has at least 1 game for every single player type on the planet and its the originator of the most amazing controllers of all time. :D --- End quote --- ??? it originated the Gamecube Controller??? --- End quote --- The Dualshock!!! :D |
| soera:
--- Quote from: 90snostalga on January 30, 2014, 08:34:42 pm ---You guys are losing me now. I think the 64 and playstation is awesome but I do choose the 64 over the playstation. --- End quote --- Blasphemy. There is 1 good game on the N64 and that is Mario kart. :) |
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