Better Thank Nintendo for the PlayStation!

Little did all of the PlayStation 3 owners and fanboys in the world know, Nintendo is the grandfather of the PlayStation. Yep, believe it or not. In the December of 1992, Nintendo released it’s monthly magazine, Nintendo Power, to it’s readers with a little surprise inside. Nintendo announced that the Super Nintendo was going to compete with the Sega Genesis!

Nintendo was going to do this by agreeing to a partnership with Sony to create the Super Nintendo CD-Rom system that would boast ” a custom 32-bit processor”.  Unbelievable eh? This agreement obviously didn’t last too long. Nintendo and Sony continued working on the Super Nintendo CD, but then dumped the idea because a CD-Rom based system would be impractical due to long load times.

Sony and Nintendo broke up, and Nintendo went on to create the Nintendo 64, which had good sales, but Sony went on to create the PlayStation – a CD based system that sold 300,000 units in just 30 days!

So next time all of you PS3 fanboys start hating on the Nintendo or the Wii, you better look back and had the great idea in the first place, and is overall, the grandfather of the PlayStation 3 that you know and love fight now.

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