Sony consoles were usually also good multimedia machines. PS3 was one of the best Blu-ray players you could get and even at 599 US Dollars you'd still save like $500. The PSP came years before the iPhone as a handheld multimedia machine (with its own app store to boot). Now that every TV and phone is a spy box you subscribe to, they lost another function

Not just gaming. All industries.

It's capitalism. Capitalism is institutionalized greed. These greedy cunts think they're just being, "good businessmen".

Unfortunately, the government was never the good guy, either. It's meant to be a voice for the people, but it almost never is. We need to become educated enough as an entire population to keep companies in line ourselves, because governments side with corporations more often than not.

Idk I remember a time when Sony was the least bad guy. Back when ps3 came out, you didn't need a subscription for online play, and you could actually browse the web (poorly, but, somebody tried. I remember when my laptop shit the bed and I used my ps3 to submit an assignment on blackboard in 2008). I thought that was pretty cool. Not that Sony was good; the profit motive was there, and the second they saw Xbox requiring a subscription for online play, you best believe they built plus overnight. But, there was a time when good people got good ideas snuck past bad company management I guess.

Idk if that's the actual justification behind it, but IIRC, not showing other platforms logos is just a technical requirement.

Thank you. I was hoping someone would tell me what this was from.

Fun fact! Sony wanted to screw over Nintendo not because they were screwed over by Nintendo, but because they were humiliated by Nintendo.

Sony was trying to screw Nintendo over in the first place, Nintendo realized it, pulled out, and Sony threw a hissy fit.

The tl;dr: is that Sony basically wanted distribution rights for IPs that were published on CDs. Nintendo initially thought Sony meant as in 'we want to be able to distribute stuff published on CDs' which makes sense... but Nintendo's lawyers realized at the last second that Sony meant 'Anything that is published on CD, we now own that IP's distribution rights entirely'

As in, if a Zelda game was ever published on CD, Nintendo literally could not ever publish a Zelda game without Sony's approval. Defacto ownership of the Zelda IP, though not actual ownership.

Considering Nintendo was literally currently dealing with Sony extorting them over the dev kits for the Sony sound chip in the SNES, Nintendo very wisely walked away from that, and pivoted to Philips. (Sony and Philips jointly created the CD standard.)

While the CD-I was obviously a failure, this whole thing was a MASSIVE embarrassment to Sony, because they had already been doing the industry equivalent of bragging about the deal (which they shouldn't have been, because it wasn't finalized yet). Them yapping about it is also how Nintendo's lawyers realized that Sony was basically trying to do a hostile takeover of all of Nintendo's IPs. Needless to say, Nintendo was (rightly, imo) pissed.

And then Sony had the gall to complain about Nintendo like THEY were the bad guys, setting a narrative for years.