sorry NOT TRUE Smash Brother, Nintendo and Sony co developed a SNES/CD hybrid that could play SNES game and new Cd games. it was based on the SNES architechture and didnt ad much too it except more ram and a few little effects. Itw as equevilant on power to SNES running with a couple SFX chips, a vast improvment but not nearly as powerfull as PS became. the play station Nintendo and sony dewveloped is NOT CLOSE to the PLAYSTATION that was reeased. The ONLY reason why Nintendo called off the deal in the first place ws because Sony wanted royalties on the GAMES and Nintendo said no. They even went and developed thier own cd system with Phillips, the CD-i, which failed to catch on but mostly because Nintendo failed to support it or claim it as thier design.
Square was developing games for N64, they didnt abandon it because of Cds, they are on record of this, sony paid them a HUGE sum of moeny adn agreed to finance FF7 if it went exclusive. THEN Sony put up cash into buyin a chunk of Squares stock to have greater control.
Sure alot of people YOU know bot a PS1 JUST for FF7, millions of people got one for that game alone, but not EVERYONE who got one bought that game. Tekken, Ridge Racer, Wipe Out, Crash bandicoot, those games all came BEFORE FF7 and they were HUGE sellers on thier own. Not to mention all the stuff that came after. FF7 was one of the biggest selling games and yes I loved it its a great game, and yes a lot of peopel did buy a PS1 because of that game, but it was not their only big franshise. I know more peopel who got a playstationf or Grand Turissmo, which sell in the millions also, or Resident Evil also million sellers, than for ff7. Also Resident Evil 2 was on both systems and it was carts, FF7 could have been done on N64 they would have just ahd to compress alot, adn they were WILLING to put in the effort, after all tehy had major success on Nintendo systems (Ff1-6, Chrono Trigger, Mario Rpg, ect) Sony BRIBED them and that is why the left, plain and simple. they said they liked the cd and were extremely happy not to have to put in extra effort but they would have gladly put in the effort to make it work on N64 if SOny hadnt come along.
Maybe you could blaim Yamauchi for NOT bribing Square to stay but Nintendo could NEVER out bid Sony for anything. Also Namcos exclusivity for Playstation early on was due to Sony bribes and Namco has made more than tier fair share of hits for Playstation 1 and 2.
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