![]() Nintendo had their press conference the next day. In June 1991, Sony went to the Consumer Electronics Show to announce their partnership with Nintendo and said that they were developing a new console add-on to the Super NES, the PlayStation. The Reveal of the Playstation and Nintendo's Betrayal Announcement And it was Nintendo so of course they'd say yes. When Phillips got the offer from Nintendo, they immediately said yes. ![]() Nintendo president Yamauchi-San sent a few higher ups to Europe with Phillips, Sony's arch nemesis. Nintendo found out that Sony was planning to backstab them by obtaining most and/or all the profits and leaving Nintendo next to nothing. The alternative was that to have Nintendo control the profits and licensing for the Playstation. Nintendo tried to work a way around this problem, but of course Sony refused. Sony wanted to control licensing for the CD version of games for the Super Nintendo's disk format. Hundreds of prototypes were made and tested and the future of Sony and Nintendo seemed like a bright future. The two companies in early development were friends and got along very well. In 1988, Sony began development of the CD based add-on to the Super Nintendo. ![]()
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