At 2: 00 pm, Nintendo's new product launch was held. A large number of people attended the launch excitedly.
But if you look closely, you will notice that 23% of the guests who attended Nintendo's press conference also attended Sony's press conference.
But unlike Sony, where everyone knew that Sony was going to release a gaming console, Nintendo's press conference made everyone curious. Everyone was curious about what Nintendo was going to release this time!
In fact, Nintendo's development of the new generation of consoles is not a secret. In 1993, Nintendo had announced this information during their annual Super Nintendo exhibition.
But until now, the new generation of consoles is still in a difficult stage. This is because there are many technical difficulties, and Nintendo is unable to overcome them. They can only choose to work with other companies.
At first, Nintendo chose to work with Sony, but things fell apart. Nintendo had no choice but to work with Philips for the new generation of consoles.
Speaking of the cooperation between Sony and Nintendo, it was very interesting. At the same time, it showed the true nature of Sony.
Nintendo's 3D game console was only introduced in 1996. It was one and a half years later than Sony and four years later than 3DD. In the 3D gaming era, Nintendo had been lagging behind since the start.
But is this really the case?
Nintendo is a game company, and they can't see the trend of 3D games?
Of course, the answer was no. In fact, in 1988, Nintendo had already realized that 3D games would be the future mainstream, and it was imperative to develop a 3D game console.
But the problem is that 3D games will increase the game's data capacity.
For example, the previous Contra game's data capacity is only 256 KB. In the year 2020, a PC can download 10 Contra games in a second.
A 3D game's data capacity is more than 100 MB. A game cartridge can't hold this data. This is beyond the cartridge's capacity.
At that time, there was no such thing as a USB drive. The only thing that could break through the capacity limit and reach a capacity of more than 200MB was a cheap storage tool, and that was a CD.
In other words, VCD discs. Only by changing the medium from cartridges to discs could the game truly enter the 3D era.
But in 1988, the CD-ROM technology was very advanced. With Nintendo's technology, it was impossible for them to play with CD storage technology. But at that time, Nintendo and Sony were in their honeymoon period. Sony helped Nintendo to produce a lot of music for FC games, and there was no competition between them. Their relationship was very good, and they were basically in the same boat.
Therefore, both parties hit it off immediately. Nintendo naturally decided to cooperate with Sony to develop a new CD game console. After the contract was signed, this product developed by Sony and Nintendo was codenamed PlayStation.
What do you think?
When one saw this name, one's imagination would run wild.
In the future, in the console gaming industry, there will be two factions fighting over which console is the best in the world, Sony PS4 and Nintendo Switch. The name PS was originally prepared for Nintendo, and Nintendo's next console was almost called PS.
Of course, if that was the case, there would probably be no Switch in the future.
But history is always full of all kinds of weird things.
Just when everything seemed to be going so smoothly and it seemed like success was about to be achieved, something that no one had expected happened. In 1992, at the CES International Consumer Electronics Exhibition, Sony and Nintendo were preparing to launch the PlayStation prototype.
Nintendo suddenly told Sony that their R&D partnership with Sony will be terminated. They had already approached Philips to develop the next console. Sony's PS will have to be developed by Philips. Bye bye!
This sudden change of events made Sony furious. But without Nintendo's cooperation, Sony will not be able to continue in the gaming industry.
But Sony was not willing to admit defeat. So, they decided to continue developing the PS game, even if they lost Nintendo's support. Finally, in 1994, which was now, Sony's PS game console was released!
How was it? Did you feel that Sony was an inspiration? Sony was also the main character, and Nintendo was the evil dragon?
Indeed, from the information gathered by the public, Sony was indeed an innocent victim, and Nintendo was simply a green tea b * tch that abandoned the original owner.
However, as time passed, more and more details were revealed, and the truth was finally revealed to everyone.
Sony was not the one who was cheated. It was Nintendo.
As mentioned before, Nintendo and Sony had signed a cooperation agreement. Based on this agreement, both parties had completed the research of the new PS console.
This was because Nintendo could not figure out how to make CD-ROMs, CD readers, or simply CD-ROM drives. But to protect their core interests and technologies from Sony, Nintendo and Sony developed PS together. The PS was a weird product with two separate devices.
One of the devices was Sony's CD-ROM, which is similar to a VCD player. The other device was Sony's new console.
This new console could still be plugged in with a Nintendo game card to play Nintendo games from the FC era. However, if players wanted to play 3D games loaded on CD, they would need to connect Sony's CD-ROM to the console, and then use the CD to read the game. It was equivalent to splitting a PS console into two parts, and taking out the CD drive and making it into a separate accessory.
According to the cooperation agreement between Sony and Nintendo, Nintendo's version of the PS console was a win-win situation. After the console was sold, all the money earned from the console belongs to Nintendo, and all the money earned from the CD-ROM goes to Sony. As for the income from the game cartridges, it was Nintendo's private property and had nothing to do with Sony.
From this point of view, although Sony and Nintendo could make a lot of money from the console, but the profits were limited. The most they could make was a few hundred million USD.
But this was still profitable, and there was nothing wrong with the cooperation. Nintendo also did not suspect anything and signed the contract.
But when Nintendo's version of the PS console reached the final stage, Yamauchi met a famous lawyer from the United States. Yamauchi took out the contract and asked the lawyer to examine it.
In the end, the lawyer immediately pointed out that there were many vague clauses in the contract, and these vague clauses would cause a fatal problem.
The author does not know the exact terms and conditions, and no one has ever announced it. But it is rumored that these terms and conditions will bring about one result. Once a game is produced on CD, Sony will have the rights to publish the game.
What does this mean?
Simply put, Nintendo used Sony's technology to record the game Pokemon onto a CD, and then run it on the PlayStation.
Then, Sony will have the rights to publish and use Pokemon. In the future, when Sony produces a new CD game console, Sony will have the rights to publish Pokemon and the sequels of Pokemon on their own console. They don't need Nintendo's permission to do so.
This means Sony can use this contract to take over Nintendo's gaming library and IP for more than 20 years. From now on, Nintendo's games will belong to Sony, and Sony's games will still belong to Sony!
If this contract continues, Sony will still be Sony, but Nintendo will cease to exist.
Even an idiot knows how furious Nintendo was when they found out about the loopholes in the contract. They will never honor this contract, and they can only tear up the contract.
Anyway, this contract is only a cooperation contract, and there are no compensation clauses. Even if Nintendo tears up the contract, they will not have to pay a single cent.
When Sony saw the loopholes in their contract being exposed, they decided to stop hiding their intentions. They decided to develop their own PlayStation console. Who do you think is the most disgusting person in this matter?
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