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

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

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:25:31 -0400 (EDT), xxxxxx@aol.com wrote:

>SNES was not unceremoniously scrapped by Nintendo. After their plans for a 
>stand alone S.Famicom based CD game system (no cart slot, CD only, 
>tentatively called in the development stages--the Playstation!!) which I