Chapter 710

Also at 2 p.m., Nintendo's new product launch was held, and then a large number of people participated in this new product launch with excitement.

But if you look closely, you will find that about 23 guests who ran to Nintendo's press conference also appeared at Sony's press conference.

It's just that unlike Sony, we all know that Sony is going to release game consoles. Nintendo's press conference basically makes everyone confused. Everyone is curious about what Nintendo wants to release this time!

In fact, it is no secret that Nintendo is developing a new generation of host. As early as 1993, Nintendo has released some information on their own annual Super Nintendo exhibition.

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

At first, Nintendo chose to cooperate with Sony, and then it collapsed, which forced Nintendo to start from scratch and cooperate with Philips.

When it comes to the cooperation between Sony and Nintendo, it's very interesting. At the same time, it also fully shows 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 longer than Sony and four years slower than 3dd. In the era of 3D games, Nintendo has lagged behind from the beginning.

But is that really the case?

Nintendo, a big game manufacturer, really can't see such an obvious trend of 3D games?

Of course, the answer is No. in fact, in 1988, Nintendo realized that 3D games are the mainstream of the future, and it is imperative to develop a 3D game console.

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

For example, the capacity of the previous soul duel is only 256Kb. In 2020, a computer can download 10 soul duel games in one second.

The capacity of a 3D game is basically more than 100MB. This is the capacity that a game card can't carry at all, which exceeds the maximum capacity of the game card at that time.

At that time, there was no such thing as USB flash disk. There was only one cheap carrying tool that could break through the capacity limit and reach a capacity of more than 200MB, that is, CD.

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

However, in 1988, CD reading, that is, CD-ROM technology was very high-end. Nintendo had accumulated technology and could not play CD storage technology at all. However, at that time, Nintendo and Sony were in the honeymoon period. Sony helped Nintendo produce a lot of FC game music, and there was no competition on both sides' product lines. Naturally, the relationship was very good, Basically in the state of wearing a pair of pants.

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

What about?

See this name, is there a feeling of imagination.

It is estimated that in the future console game circle, there will be an impassable battle over who is the first in the world for Sony PS4 and Nintendo switch. In fact, the game console PS and its name were originally prepared for Nintendo. Nintendo's next-generation console was almost called PS.

Of course, if so, it is estimated that there will be no such thing as switch in the future.

But history is always full of all kinds of evil interests.

Just when everything seemed so smooth and seemed to be about to succeed, an unexpected thing happened. In 1992, at CES international consumer electronics exhibition, Sony was preparing to jointly release the prototype of Playstation with Nintendo.

Nintendo suddenly told Sony that the cooperative research and development with Sony has ended. Then they have found Philips to jointly develop the next host. Goodbye to Sony's PS!

Such a sudden change naturally makes Sony angry, but without the cooperation of Nintendo, Sony seems unable to go on the road of games.

But how could Sony be willing to fail, so they decided to continue to develop the PS project, even without the support of Nintendo. Finally, in 1994, that is, now, the PS game console independently developed by Sony finally appeared!

How about seeing here? Do you feel that Sony TM is really inspirational, Sony is also the protagonist, and Nintendo is a damn dragon?

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

But with the passage of time, more and more details were disclosed, and the truth of the whole fact was finally displayed in front of everyone.

It wasn't Sony that got hit, but Nintendo.

As mentioned before, Nintendo and Sony signed a cooperation agreement. According to this cooperation agreement, the two sides completed the research on the new generation PS.

Because what Nintendo has been unable to handle is the CD-ROM, that is, the CD reader, or more simply the production method of the optical drive, but in order to keep its core interests and technology from being occupied by Sony, the PS jointly developed by the two sides has actually become a wonderful flower, a device with two separate parts.

One of the devices is the CD-ROM developed by Sony, which is a device similar to VCD, and the other is the new host ontology developed by Sony.

This new console can still be plugged into Nintendo's game card to play Nintendo games in the FC era. However, if players want to play 3D games loaded on CDs, they need to connect Sony's CD-ROM to the game console, and then use the CD to read the games. It is equivalent to dividing a PS game console into two and taking out the CD drive alone, Made another accessory.

According to the cooperation agreement between Sony and Nintendo at that time, the Nintendo version of the PS game console was earned by both sides. After a set of machine was sold, all the money earned by the game console was Nintendo, while all the money earned by the CD-ROM was Sony. As for the income of the game card, it was naturally Nintendo's private product and Sony had no relationship of a dime.

From this point of view, although Sony and Nintendo can indeed make a lot of game console money, the money is limited. In fact, they can't make much, and hundreds of millions of dollars will top the sky.

But this is still profitable. There is no problem with the cooperation itself. Nintendo has no doubt and signed a contract.

But when the Nintendo PS host came to the last minute, Yamauchi happened to meet a famous American lawyer. Yamauchi took out the contract and asked the American lawyer to check it.

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

The author Jun doesn't know the specific vague terms, and no one has ever published them, but it is said that these vague terms will bring a result, that is, after any game is made into CD mode, Sony also has the distribution right of the game.

What does that mean?

Simply put, for example, Nintendo recorded the Pokemon game on the CD disc with the technical assistance of Sony, and then took it to the PS for operation.

Then, Sony also has the right to distribute and use the game Pokemon. In the future, Sony will join Sony to make a new CD game console. Then Sony will directly have the right to release Pokemon and the sequel of Pokemon on its own game console without Nintendo's consent.

This is equivalent to that Sony can eat all the game libraries and game IP that Nintendo has operated for more than 20 years through this contract. Since then, Nintendo's games are Sony's, and Sony's games are still Sony's!

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

I want to know with my ass how angry Nintendo is after discovering the loophole in the contract. It is absolutely impossible for them to fulfill the contract, and then they can only tear up the contract on the spot.

Anyway, this contract is only a cooperative contract. There is no specific compensation clause. If it is torn up, there is no need to pay a dime. Of course, Nintendo has no pressure to tear it up.

When Sony saw that its contract loophole trap was exposed, it simply stopped hiding its purpose and directly developed its own PS game console. Who is the most disgusting guy in this matter?