Listajući po sejvanim dokumentima sam naletio na ovaj tekst. Mislio sam to jednom istražiti, ali nikad nisam i eventualno zaboravih. Baš me zanima koliko je toga istinito, a koliko laž. Ako je istina, onda je Sony stvarno bio kujetina:
In July of 1988, Nintendo started development of Super Famicom codenamed Famicom 2. Nintendo at the time had taken heavy interest in acquiring a smaller,cheaper off the shelf design of Apple's 1986 16-bit Home Computer the Apple IIGS, so they contracted Japanese semiconductor Ricoh Silicon Technologies and Sony to come up with a special System on a Chip design of IIGS hardware. Ricoh designed and customized a Single Core 16-bit processor called the A522 which powers the entire architecture of the IIGS hardware on a single processor, Sony in turn was assigned 2nd Party OEM rights to its Motherboard and designed a special Wav. Custom made Sound processor for the Famicom 2(designed to outshine the Brand NEW and cutting edge SEGA Mega Drive console which launched in Japan that Holiday season)).
In June of 1990, about several months before Super Famicom's Japanese rollout, Nintendo heard rumors and reports that SEGA was partnering up with Pioneer and JVC to design a CD add on accessory for the Mega Drive(Mega CD or "Sega Project Earth" was kept top secret by SEGA until its public unveiling in April 1991), so naturally they wanted in on the rumored Compact Disc ROM craze that they saw starting with NEC and projected to have a CD add on ready for Super Famicom by 1992, since Sony and Philips developed CD tech together in 1981-1982 and since CD ROM was code developed by Sony,JVC and Philips in 1984-1985, Nintendo figured that it would be much easier to simply approach Sony and ask to help assist in developing the accessory.
Here's where things fell apart. Sony in 1990, decided that since they had grown into a Large Corporation(they had purchased Columbia Pictures,Tri Star and CBS Music/Epic BMG from Coca Cola in 1988) that instead of working and partnering with others THEY could pretty much do whatever they wanted. Sony's new Attitude was "We want to Monopolize ANY market we choose" so by that time, Sony was eyeing the video gaming business and instead of wasting time and R&D on building and developing a new home console, they decided to cheat and screw over Nintendo with the newly codenamed "Project Nintendo Play Station".
What Sony did was THEY drew up the contract. Adding multiple Clauses in it which gave Sony 80% of control of the add on. On licensing,Manufacturing, Royalties, Profits, while Nintendo would be left with just a measly 20%. Sony was telling Nintendo in early 1991, that THEY were going OWN the add on, it was as if they wanted Nintendo to literally GIVE away the hardware to Sony.
Nintendo was certainly furious, and demanded a renegotiation set for the Early Summer of 1991, but unfortunately by then, Sony had another demand intentionally designed to piss off Nintendo, in June 1991, Ken Kutaragi and Hiroshi Yamauchi held a Private Meeting in Kyoto, Kutaragi not only refused to change the demands in the contract, he then BOLDLY flat out proclaimed that Sony should ALSO have the right to design and publish Mario and Zelda games, they were telling Nintendo that THEY were going to handle development of Nintendo's IPs.
This was the final straw, Yamauchi dismissed Kutaragi and later called and told him, the deal was off. Nintendo tore up Sony's contract and sent him a Nintendo made contract, giving Nintendo 90% of the rights, with even a JTO Trademark of the prototype "Nintendo Super Famicom CD" and relegated Sony solely to 2nd Party partner only with No ability to license Nintendo IPs for the machine.
Kutaragi pretty much discarded the contract, but not before altering it, giving Sony some rights to use the designs and concepts by redrawing them. Nintendo missed this hidden clause snuck in and signed the contract, but not before realizing that the deal with Sony and Nintendo was pretty much dead.
Nintendo DROPPED Sony from all 2nd Party duties in November of 1991, the newer batches of Super NES and Super Famicom Motherboards would no longer be handled by Sony, instead Nintendo contracted RICOH to handle ALL motherboards and Sharp as Secondary. The biggest Mistake Nintendo made was they forgot to LEGALLY buy back the designs and concepts and let Sony run off with them. All Nintendo had to do was sue Sony for Patent Infringement and Sony's dreams for PlayStation would have been dead as a doornail.
Sony then in August 1991, set up a meeting with SEGA Enterprises,Ltd in Haneda, disguising themselves as an OEM partner, Kutaragi and Sony were actually secretly planning Corporate espionage to STEAL hardware designs,blueprints and concepts of whatever successor of Mega Drive/Genesis that was being planned so they could outdo SEGA in everything technically.
The meeting between Sony and SEGA of Japan took place in Early September 1991. It lasted barely 45 minutes before Hayao Nakayama and the SEGA Chairboard threw Sony, Kutaragi and his Chairboard out of their office. Berating them, Yelling at them and warning them that they would have no qualms about competing against them IF they even decided to launch a video game product of their own. SEGA was PISSED OFF because Sony had claimed to them that could design a cutting edge chipset for SEGA without actually showing or displaying to them any proof of such a claim, no concepts, nothing. Sony just shot their mouth off with claims that couldn't be substantiated and on top of that had asked and begged to have access to SEGA's Arcade tech and specs and motherboards. The only thing SEGA showed Sony was System 32 Arcade Hardware, before telling to go screw themselves and slammed the door in their faces.
SEGA of Japan saw RIGHT through Sony. They didn't trust them, wanted NOTHING to do with them and refused to do any business with them they had given JVC full 2nd Party rights to Mega CD. To Sony's complete shock, SEGA were smarter than they thought. The plan to spy and steal hardware from SEGA had backfired, or did it?
Sony finally found an opening in the Spring of 1992, when they discovered that SEGA of America functioned differently from SOJ and were often naive. So they CONNED and WEASELED their way into SOA's offices. They concocted an alibi that they had a 2nd Party Negotiations with SOJ going on and(without presenting proof of such a claim) and thus wanted to handle 2nd party duties for Sega CD in America. They then told(LIED) to SOA that they could design and assemble a 3D chipset for SEGA's Project Jupiter, in which SOA blindly let Sony have access to specs,designs,concepts e.t.c, SOA had NO idea that they would be doublecrossed.
Sony then LIED and deceived SOA by asking to design hardware for Jupiter with a simple(weak and poorly written) contract with a hidden and sleazy clause: Sony would assist SOA in designing a Jupiter prototype chipset, so as long as they be allowed to develop Sega CD games and handle Sega CD's 2nd Party rights. If they suddenly discontinued it, the hardware would be Sony's.
All SEGA had to do to stop this, was consult with SOJ(who would have put licensing and Patent protection on the hardware to prevent Sony from stealing it) but they never did. Sony assured SOA that negotiations of the Jupiter chipset would take place during Early 1993. Sony NEVER fulfilled their end of the bargain and broke their promise.(This was to bide time so that Sony could LOCK down the hardware and collect the licensing rights to it.).
So when Early 1993 rolled around and SOJ consulted with SOA's engineering team after sending them a prototype of System 32 based Giga Drive/MARS,, SOA told them all about Sony. SEGA was furious and when JVC found out that Sony was manufacturing Sega CD ILLEGALLY, they took Sony to court and won. So all CD Loading Tray Model 1 Sega CD's were immediately pulled from the Market in the Summer of 1993.
SOA found out the hard way that Sony had bamboozled them. Sony never met with them in the Spring of 1993. Instead, Sony started full fledged development of their CD based console "Sony PlayStatio- X".
SEGA of Japan had suspected that Sony was planning something. So in Early 1993, they assigned Hideki Sato to begin work on a Top Secret 64-bit powerhouse project codenamed "Aurora".
AURORA was going to be Model 2 Arcade based. Its pretty easy to guess what eventually became of Aurora. So you see, Sony SCREWED both SEGA and Nintendo over. If you want to know where Nintendo was monopolistic, it was when Minoru Aikawa was in charge of Nintendo of America.
