The famously cancelled CD-Rom add on from Sony for the Super Nintendo console helped birth PlayStation. Now the company’s former president of SIE Worldwide Studios has shared a little about his thoughts about being at the company during that time and the cancelation Nintendo made at the last minute. Shuhei Yoshida said that it was “almost helpful” that Nintendo cancelled the project which ultimately saw Sony sell far more units of the original PlayStation console compared to the Nintendo 64 in the end.
“He had multiple units of the final working prototypes. The system was already done and almost ready for manufacturing, and a few games were already finished. I played one game that was a space shooter, but still it was based on Super Nintendo tech, right? So it was limited.”
“It was almost helpful that Nintendo cancelled the project – otherwise the Sony team would have been stuck as part of a Nintendo system.”
“Nintendo created their big competition. But competition is always healthy. Now, Xbox, Nintendo, PlayStation seem to be going in very different directions, and I think that’s great for the overall industry.”
Nintendo really created all their modern competitors, huh
“””Competitors””” They are far above all the rest.
That’s why Sony outsells Microsoft and Nintendo, because “Sony sucks”, right?
Nintendo honestly creates a lot of their problems…. through their hardware choices, their customer base, the way their historically handled their own catalogs and releases…. and way back to how they tried tonstrongarm the industry into exclusivity in effort to thwart competition!
It’s actually quite amusing their character mascots are so cutsie and lovable…. but behind the Mushroom kingdom lies a litigational monster that doesn’t care about your feelings or the industry!
This is not novelty! Anyone can this find out, who knows the story. By the way the only era when the console competition was healthy was only in the first half of ’90s, between Sega Mega Drive and SNES.
I guess it is almost like a yearly tradition to talk about the Nintendo Playstation (sometimes Yoshida and other Playstation folks mention it twice or more in a year).
Yes, you are right. Like this is the greatest invention in the video game industrie. And it really is! Because it’s never been officially realised so many theories could be written about it.
Competition is good. Now the developers need to stop wasting time on a limit of 5 to 6 years on these consoles and make some games.
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