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***Cosmonautical*** · 06-17-2009, 12:59 AM

YEAH THEY HATE EACHOTHER

That's why Sega made the last F-Zero game, rite guys?

Seriously, though, Sony and Nintendo are competitors, and Mario is the most-selling, most-recognizable mascot and game character in the industry. Putting a Mario game on the Playstation would cause more Playstation units to sell. If people could get Nintendo-franchise games on other systems, Nintendo would lose support, and that'd be it.

Nintendo was once guilty of cross-platform releases, but that was back in the days of the Atari 2600/5200 systems. Basically, they were about to make a deal to exclusively license rights to their games for Atari, but when the annual numbers came in - everyone saw that Atari was operating at a loss. Atari went ahead and released Mario Bros and a few other games that they'd begun production on, and I think there was a legal battle over it afterwards as they hadn't yet acquired the rights to release the titles. Through the same "license", the early Nintendo games such as Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong were ported across a good variety of systems.

Since then, however, Mario and friends have only ever made it to the PC market and the failed Phillips CD-i system, and none of those games were directly written by Nintendo.

The first Playstation was actually planned as a CD-drive add-on for the SNES, planned by Sony and Nintendo together. Nintendo did a double-take, though, and re-partnered with Phillips. Eventually, they backed out of the CD project altogether when sales results of other CD add-ons for systems such as the Genesis/Mega Drive and the Turbo Grafx 16/PC Engine were released to the public. System expansions are rarely successful, and even in the instance that one was - the Famicom's (NES in Japan) Disk System led to rampant piracy, negating most profits that expansion might have incurred.

06-17-2009, 12:59 AM	#9
*Cosmonautical* Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 28,095 Thanks: 2,137 Thanked 5,335 Times in 2,430 Posts	YEAH THEY HATE EACHOTHER That's why Sega made the last F-Zero game, rite guys? Seriously, though, Sony and Nintendo are competitors, and Mario is the most-selling, most-recognizable mascot and game character in the industry. Putting a Mario game on the Playstation would cause more Playstation units to sell. If people could get Nintendo-franchise games on other systems, Nintendo would lose support, and that'd be it. Nintendo was once guilty of cross-platform releases, but that was back in the days of the Atari 2600/5200 systems. Basically, they were about to make a deal to exclusively license rights to their games for Atari, but when the annual numbers came in - everyone saw that Atari was operating at a loss. Atari went ahead and released Mario Bros and a few other games that they'd begun production on, and I think there was a legal battle over it afterwards as they hadn't yet acquired the rights to release the titles. Through the same "license", the early Nintendo games such as Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong were ported across a good variety of systems. Since then, however, Mario and friends have only ever made it to the PC market and the failed Phillips CD-i system, and none of those games were directly written by Nintendo. The first Playstation was actually planned as a CD-drive add-on for the SNES, planned by Sony and Nintendo together. Nintendo did a double-take, though, and re-partnered with Phillips. Eventually, they backed out of the CD project altogether when sales results of other CD add-ons for systems such as the Genesis/Mega Drive and the Turbo Grafx 16/PC Engine were released to the public. System expansions are rarely successful, and even in the instance that one was - the Famicom's (NES in Japan) Disk System led to rampant piracy, negating most profits that expansion might have incurred. Last edited by Cosmonautical; 06-17-2009 at 01:31 AM.