Re: OT: Re: Sony's entrance into gaming (was:reading material)

In a message dated 8/9/01 8:47:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
xxxxxx@gz.bomb.com writes:

<<  Where did you hear crap like this. The CD system was never a stand-alone.
It was an expansion that locked onto the bottom of the SNES via the expansion
port (we've seen the proto-type). There would have been no way that Nintendo
would have designed it as a stand-alone anyways because it would have been
to cost prohibative, and Nintendo's #1 rule is if it can't be done 
cheap, it ain't getting done... well, not quite, but you get the idea.... 
Also the fact 
is that in this whole fiasco, Sony was using Nintendo, and when they were 
done, 
they walked away from the table, plain and simple. I felt worse for Phillips 
because they were the ones who really got burned in the whole deal.

Bryan aka R.I.P.
xxxxxx@gz.bomb.com  >>

You're right. Nintendo would never go with this idea. The stand-alone CD unit 
wasn't Nintendo's idea, it was Sony's. Their plans after giving Nintendo 
their CD add on was to make a stand alone CD unit using the innards of a 
SFami without the cart slot calling it the SuperDisc system (their original 
working title was "Playstation.") It was supposed to be their entrance into 
the console market (after all they loved the revenues they were getting from 
the sound chip they made for the SNES/SFami.) When Nintendo got wind of this 
that's when they scrapped Sony and went with Phillips on that other ill-fated 
CD add on for the SNES/SFami.

This was all documented in an issue of Next Generation magazine some years 
ago. Can't quite remember which issue though. 

Dustin (AKA:Yuushi)