Archive link: https://archive.ph/NF2r0

At some point, getting Nintendo would be a career moment and I honestly believe a good move for both companies. It’s just taking a long time for Nintendo to see that their future exists off of their own hardware. A long time… :-)

Email chain between Phil Spencer, Chris Capossela, and Takeshi Numoto discussing the potentially hostile purchase of Nintendo, ZeniMax, WB Games, and TikTok

  • @Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    11 year ago

    lol just saw the timeline, imagine spending years of r&d for the best game console on the market, then microsoft beats you by 3 days

    • Never_Sm1le
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      41 year ago

      Twice actually. If they used CD instead of cartridges N64 would beat the first PS.

      • @angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com
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        1 year ago

        I still think the N64’s overall technical superiority over the PS1 is very visible. Notice how much more closed in most PS1 games’ environments are. Spyro is the main exception, but that needed a lot of special tricks where N64 just does that. I say this as someone who doesn’t really like the N64 library.

        • Never_Sm1le
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          Yeah, many games originally planned for n64 got scrapped due to cartridge format. FF7 is a notable example. All that processing power gone to waste because space constraint. They learned nothing of this and still used the alien mini dvd format in Gamecube.