/vr/ - Retro Games

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For the problem of the Nintendo 64 it is necessary to go back to the time of the Sony / Nintendo contract.

In the book "La Révolution Playstation" (a book I can't find in English) by Ryoji Akagawa (Sony's producer of Arc The Lad, Equinox, Motor Toon), he recounts that era.

He says that one day the people (lawyers?) having negotiated the contract with Nintendo returned conquering, with closed contracts too good to be true. To the point that Ken Kutaragi did not believe Nintendo could accept that!
And that did not fail since later Hiroshi Yamauchi put an end to it.

We will probably never know the real reason for this break, but I had read some that it was mostly for reasons of royalties.
For the games published on Nes and Snes, Nintendo would have asked for 14% of roaylaties, and Sega just lined up below at 12-13%.

Then around 1992 Sony arrives, and the contract negotiated for the Snes Play Station would have asked 21% royalties on the games (in addition to the 14% of Nintendo, here is the price of games after ...), VideoCD and Karaoke for Sony !!
Yamauchi cancels the contract.

Ken Kutaragi takes over the Playstation and negotiates the royalties with the publishers himself.
Taking advantage of the CD it only requires 7% royalties!
While Nintendo remains on 14% and Sega on 13%!

Why hasn't any company out there attempted to make an attachment for the SNES utilizing the extension port intended for the SNES CD attachment? What could you even do with it?