| PlayStation, the SNES CD-ROM | | Question | | Hank I´ve read in a magazine that years a go sony was going to make with nintendo playstation but some problems came out and this partnership broke. Is it true? if it´s true can you say everything you know about this and why did the partnership broke? | | Answer | It’s true. Years ago, Sony was designing a CD-ROM add-on called PlayStation for Nintendo’s SNES. After many delays due to contract disagreements, Nintendo’s deals with Philips to also make a CD-ROM system compatible with SNES, and Nintendo’s change of heart for the slow-loading CD-ROM format, the original PlayStation project died.
Several versions of a SNES compatible CD-ROM system had been designed. Sony was making two consoles. One was the SNES CD-ROM add-on agreed to by Nintendo, and the other was a Sony console that would play SNES carts, SNES CD games, and Sony’s new format. Philips was working on an add-on that could play SNES CD games and Philips CD-I games. Conflicts occurred, and none of these followed through. Then Nintendo, Sony, and Philips were all three working cooperatively on a system called the SNES Nintendo Disk (SNES ND). The disks each contained a CD plus a memory chip for saves. Of course, this project died too, but came close to being a reality.
Later, Sony redesigned PlayStation from scratch into the popular Sony PlayStation (a.k.a. PSX and PSone) console, as you know it today.
Date: 2001-12-02 | |
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