Also at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Nintendo's new product launch conference was held, and then there were also a large number of people who participated in this new product launch conference with excitement.

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

It's just that unlike Sony's knowing, everyone knows that Sony is going to release a game console, Nintendo's press conference basically makes everyone wonder, and everyone is curious, what exactly does Nintendo want to release this time!

In fact, it is no secret that Nintendo is developing a new generation of consoles, as early as 1993, Nintendo has released certain information at their own annual Super Nintendo exhibition.

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

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

When it comes to the collaboration between Sony and Nintendo, it is very interesting and at the same time fully shows the true nature of Sony as a company.

Don't look at Nintendo's 3d game console, which was not launched until 1996, a full year and a half faster 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 major game manufacturer, really can't see such an obvious trend of 3D games?

The answer, of course, is no, in fact, in 1988, Nintendo had already 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 of the game will inevitably lead to a skyrocketing of the game's data capacity.

For example, the previous Contra, the capacity of the entire game is only 256KB, and in 2020, a computer can download 10 Contra games in one second.

And a 3D game, the capacity is basically more than 100MB, which is a capacity that a game cartridge can't carry at all, which exceeds the upper limit of the capacity of the game cartridge at that time.

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

That is, VCD discs, only by replacing the carrier from cassette to CD, can the game truly enter the 3D era.

But at that time, in 1988, the reading of discs, that is, CD-ROM technology was very high-end, Nintendo's technology accumulation, and it was impossible to play CD storage technology, but at that time Nintendo and Sony were in the honeymoon period, Sony helped Nintendo make a lot of FC game music, and there was no competition between the two product lines, and the natural relationship was unusually good, basically in a state of wearing a pair of pants.

So the cooperation between the two sides hit it off, and Nintendo naturally decided to cooperate with Sony to develop a new CD game console, and after agreeing on a contract, the product jointly developed by Sony and Nintendo was codenamed PlayStation.

What do you think?

When you see this name, do you have a feeling of imagination?

It is estimated that in the future console game circle, for Sony PS4 and Nintendo switch, the two game consoles are the first in the world and the two factions of players can never dream of it, in fact, PS This game console and this name were originally prepared for Nintendo, and Nintendo's next-generation console was almost called PS.

Of course, if that's the case, it's estimated that there will be no such thing as a switch in the future.

But history is always full of all sorts of bad tastes.

Just when everything seemed to be going so smoothly and seemed to be about to succeed, something happened that no one expected. In 1992, at CES, Sony was preparing to release a prototype of the PlayStation with Nintendo.

Nintendo suddenly told Sony that the joint research and development with Sony was terminated, and then they had found Philips to jointly develop the next console, Sony's PS bye-bye!

Such a sudden change naturally made Sony very angry, but without Nintendo's cooperation, Sony seems to be 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, and finally in 1994, that is, now, the PS game console that is completely independently developed by Sony finally appeared!

How's that, seeing this, does it feel like Sony is really TM inspirational, Sony is also the protagonist, and Nintendo is a damn dragon?

Indeed, judging from the information that the onlookers were able to gather above, Sony was indeed an innocent victim, and Nintendo was simply a green tea who casually abandoned the original match.

But as time went on, more and more details were revealed, and the truth of the whole fact was finally revealed in front of everyone's eyes.

It turned out that it was not Sony who was trapped, but Nintendo.

As mentioned earlier, Nintendo and Sony have signed a cooperation agreement, according to which the two sides have completed the research of a new generation of PS.

Because what Nintendo has been unable to do is CD-ROM, that is, CD reader, or more simply, the production method of optical drive, but in order to keep its core interests and technology, not to be encroached upon by Sony, so the PS jointly developed by the two sides has actually become a wonder, a device with two separate parts.

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

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

According to the cooperation agreement between Sony and Nintendo at that time, that is, the Nintendo version of the PS game console, both parties make their own money, after a set of machines is sold, all the money earned by the game console is Nintendo's, and the money earned by CD-ROM is all Sony's, as for the income of the game cartridge, it is naturally Nintendo's private product and Sony has no dime to do so.

From this point of view, although it is true that Sony and Nintendo can make a lot of money on game consoles, this money is limited, and in fact it does not make much, and hundreds of millions of dollars will reach the sky.

But this is still profitable, there is no problem with the cooperation itself, and Nintendo has no suspicions, so the contract is signed.

But when the Nintendo version of the PS console came to the last moment, Yamauchi happened to meet a famous lawyer in the United States, and Yamauchi Pu took out the contract by the devil and asked the American barrister to check it.

The lawyer immediately pointed out that there were many vague clauses in the contract, and these vague clauses would pose a fatal problem.

The author doesn't know what the vague terms are, and no one has ever announced them, but it is said that these vague terms will bring about a result, that is, whenever a game is made into CD mode, then Sony also has the distribution rights of the game.

What does this mean?

To put it simply, for example, Nintendo burned the game of "Pokemon" on a CD disc with the technical assistance of Sony, and then took it to PS to run it.

Then, Sony also has the right to publish and use the game "Pokemon", and in the future, Sony will join Sony to make a new CD game console, so Sony will directly have the right to release "Pokemon" on its own game console, as well as the sequel to "Pokemon", without Nintendo's consent.

This is equivalent to Sony's ability to eat all the game libraries and game IPs that Nintendo has been operating for more than 20 years through this contract, and from then on Nintendo's games are Sony's, and Sony's games are still Sony's!

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

I know with my ass how angry Nintendo was after discovering this contract loophole, it was absolutely impossible for them to fulfill this contract, and then they had to tear up the contract on the spot.

Anyway, this contract is just a cooperative contract, there is no specific compensation clause, and you don't have to lose a dime if you tear it up, and of course there is no pressure on Nintendo to tear it up.

And after Sony saw that its contract loophole trap was exposed, it simply stopped hiding its purpose and directly developed its own PS game console.