At 2 pm, Nintendo's new product launch conference was held, and a large number of people also attended the new product launch conference with excitement.

But if you look closely, you will find that about 2/3 of the guests who ran to Nintendo's press conference this time also appeared at Sony's press conference.

But it is very clear from Sony that everyone knows that Sony is going to release a game console. Nintendo's press conference basically made everyone confused. Everyone was curious about what Nintendo wanted to release this time!

In fact, Nintendo is not a secret in developing a new generation of consoles. As early as 1993, Nintendo had released some information at their annual Super Nintendo Exhibition.

But until now, this new generation of consoles is still in a difficult state. Because of the huge technical difficulties, Nintendo's personal technical strength cannot be overcome and he can only choose to cooperate with other companies.

At the beginning, Nintendo chose to cooperate with Sony, and then it collapsed, which forced Nintendo's new generation of consoles to start from scratch and cooperate with Philips.

Speaking of the cooperation between Sony and Nintendo, it is very interesting, and it also fully demonstrates the nature of Sony.

Although Nintendo's 3D game console was not launched until 1996, it was sold for a full year and a half years ago and four years slower than 3dd. In the 3D game era, Nintendo was already behind since the beginning.

But is this really the case?

Can't Nintendo, a major game manufacturer, really not see such obvious trends in 3D games?

The answer is of course no. In fact, in 1988, Nintendo realized that 3D games were the mainstream of the future, and it was imperative to develop a 3D game console.

But the problem is that the 3D game will inevitably lead to a surge in game data capacity.

For example, the previous Conra, the entire game had a capacity of only 256kb. In 2020, a computer can download 10 Conra games with capacity of one second.

A 3D game has a capacity of basically more than 100mb, which is a capacity that a game cassette cannot bear at all, which exceeds the capacity limit of the game cassette at that time.

There was no such thing as a USB flash drive in that era. The only one that could break through capacity limits and reach a capacity of more than 200mb, and there was only one cheap carrier tool, that is, CD.

That is, the VCD CD. Only by changing the carrier from the cassette to the CD can the game truly enter the 3D era.

However, in 1988, the reading of CDs was very high-end. Nintendo's technical accumulation could not play CD storage technology at all. However, Nintendo and Sony were in their honeymoon period at that time. Sony helped Nintendo make a lot of FC game music, and there was no competition in the product line between the two parties, and the natural relationship was extremely good, and they were basically wearing a pair of pants.

So the cooperation between the two parties hit it off, and Nintendo naturally decided to cooperate with Sony to develop a new CD game console. After agreeing to a contract, the code name of this product jointly developed by Sony and Nintendo was called pystation.

How about it?

Do you feel like you have a lot of imagination when you see this name?

It is estimated that in the future, players in the console gaming circle will compete for which of the two game consoles are the world's number one, for Sony P4 and Nintendo switch, and the two players will never dream of it. In fact, the game console and this name of the PS were originally prepared for Nintendo, and Nintendo's next-generation console is almost called PS.

Of course, if this is the case, there will probably be no such thing as switch in the future.

But history is always full of all kinds of bad things.

Just when everything seemed so smooth and seemed to be about to succeed, something that no one expected happened. In 1992, at the CES International Consumer Electronics Exhibition, Sony was preparing to jointly release the prototype of the pystation with Nintendo.

Nintendo suddenly told Sony that the cooperation with Sony's R&D was terminated, and then they had found Philips to jointly develop the next console. Sony's PS will be yours!

Such a sudden change naturally made Sony very angry, but without Nintendo's cooperation, Sony seems to be unable to continue on the road to gaming.

But how could Sony be willing to fail? So they decided to continue to develop the PS project, even if they lost Nintendo's support. Finally, in 1994, now, the PS game console independently developed by Sony finally debuted!

How about it? Do you feel like Sony is really inspiring when you see this? Sony is also the protagonist, and Nintendo is a damn evil dragon?

Indeed, judging from the information that the bystanders above can collect, Sony is indeed an innocent victim, and Nintendo is simply a green tea bitch who abandons his original wife at will.

But as time goes by, more and more details are revealed, and the truth of the whole fact is finally revealed in front of everyone.

It turns out that it was not Sony who was cheated, but Nintendo.

As mentioned before, Nintendo and Sony signed a cooperation agreement. According to this cooperation agreement, both parties have completed research on the new generation of PS.

Because Nintendo has never been able to handle all of them, that is, the CD reader, or to put it simply, the optical drive production method, but in order to protect its core interests and technology and not be occupied by Sony, the PS jointly developed by both parties has actually become a weird one, one with two split devices.

One of the devices is developed by Sony, which is a device that looks similar to the VCD, and the other is the new host body developed by Sony.

This new console body can still be plugged in to Nintendo's game card to play Nintendo games in the FC era, but if players want to play 3D games loaded on CD, they need to connect Sony's to the game console and then use the CD to read the game. This is equivalent to dividing a PPS game console into two, taking out the optical drive inside separately, and making another accessory.

According to the cooperation agreement between Sony and Nintendo at that time, the Nintendo version of the Ps game console was made by both parties. After a set of machines was sold, all the money earned by the game console was Nintendo, and all the money earned was Sony. As for the income from the game cartridges, it was naturally that Nintendo's private products had no relationship with Sony.

From this perspective, although Sony and Nintendo can indeed make a lot of money for game consoles, the money is limited. In fact, it doesn’t make much money, and hundreds of millions of dollars are enough.

But this is still profitable, there is no problem with the cooperation itself, and Nintendo signed a contract without any doubt.

But when the Nintendo version of the Ps console reached the last moment, Hiroshi Yamauchi happened to meet a famous American lawyer. Hiroshi Yamauchi took out the contract by chance and asked the American lawyer to check it out.

It doesn't matter if the result doesn't matter. The lawyer immediately pointed out that there are many vague terms in this contract, and these vague terms will bring a fatal problem.

The author does not know what vague terms are, and no one has ever announced them, but it is said that these vague terms will bring a result, that is, after any game is made into CD mode, Sony will also have the right to publish the game.

What does this mean?

Simply put, for example, Nintendo burned the game "Pokemon" on the CD with Sony's technical assistance, and then took it to Ps to run it.

Then, Sony also has the right to release and use the game "Pokemon". In the future, Sony will join Sony and create a brand new CD game console. Then Sony will directly have the right to release "Pokemon" and "Pokemon" sequel on its own game console, which does not require Nintendo's consent.

This is equivalent to Sony's ability to use this contract to eat all the game library and game IP that Nintendo has operated for more than 20 years. From then on, Nintendo's games are Sony's, and Sony's games are still Sony's!

If we continue according to the terms of this contract, Sony will still be Sony, but Nintendo may no longer exist.

I can tell with my butt that after discovering the loophole in this contract, Nintendo was so angry that they would never be able to fulfill the contract, and then they could only tear the contract on the spot.

Anyway, this contract is just a cooperative contract and there are no specific compensation terms. If it is torn apart, you don’t have to pay a penny. Of course, there is no pressure to tear it up.
Chapter completed!