Nintendo History Wikipedia fail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nintendo#1990.E2.80.931995

Whoever wrote that was an idiot.

Lately I've found very few things on wikipedia that scream FAIL but that....
that is just...............WRONG

What is the correct version again? Incase I sign up and edit it myself.

Wasn't that Sony wanted too much of the Profit pie and Nintendo was all like "Hey FUCK YOU WE'RE MOTHER FUCKING NINTENDO MOTHER FUCKER" and decided instead to go with Philips whom they could exploit better?

 

The very first part is wrong. The SNES was not "at a low price". It cost more than the Sega Genesis at $200. It was very complex. It was not cheap unless you compared it to the TurboGrafx 16 maybe.

Nintendo was exploring a CD-ROM for the SNES with Sony but the word is that they messed up the legal details of the agreement with Sony that would have given Sony licensing control of CD-ROM discs instead of Nintendo or something to that effect. Nintendo entered into an arrangement with Philips which part of that agreement led to the CD-I and some use of Nintendo IP on the CD-I but never led to a SNES CD-ROM. When Sony heard about the new partnership they were furious and gave their team the task of creating an entirely new game console on their own which still used the name Playstation but was no longer related to the SNES.

Unfortunately it's hard to cite these things and also wikipedia tends to be garbage.

 

So basically I'm going to be busy for a few hours correcting the rantings of some Nintendo fanboy.

I already started to edit the section.

Usually Wikipedia is just utter crap But in this case it's utter crap and utter fail.

I've just been reading alot of SNES/SFC/NES/FAMICOM related stuff lately since watching (the REAL not fake Kotaku) Game Center CX has gotten me all Nostolgic To the point where I almost got a Famicom as my 30th birthday present.

 

what happens if a wikipedia reader dies of laughing?:lol:

 

Yes they were so furious that they released a couple of portable CD-i machines including a professional one...


The Sony and Nintendo partnership was never going to work and people keep on saying that it was Sonys first introduction to games ignoring the fact that Sony had a games department and was a big supporter of the MSX and did release CD-ROM games for the Sega and Mega CD...

 

AND WHO designed the SNES/SFC sound chip?

 

SONY also released carts for the Mega Drive and SNES in Europe even after the release of the PlayStation in Japan.

 

Now that I did not know

 

Good luck changing anything on Wikipedia. If this article is someones "baby" they will accuse you of just about anything and try to get you banned. I made some corrections on few articles and was accused of "edit war" and got banned until a sensible admin lifted it.

He basically said, you are doing the right thing and trying to get correct info out there, but someone much more senior than you on wiki dislikes your edits and can essentially kick you off anytime they feel like, so best to move on and just be happy with no longer being banned.

I love the idea of wiki, but its run horribly. Firmly establish and published acedemics can't even get changes made to things they invented or discovered. Do a google search and you'll see HUNDREDS of news stories and forum posts on acedemics getting banned from thier wiki profiles for simply fixing the wording of things in which they were the world renowned expert because the "wiki editor" disagreed.

 

My Edit has been up for a few hours so far so good

 

That whole section was shittily written, too. Run-on sentence much? Daaaaamn.

 

I'm not Mr Grammar either. Perhaps we should all chip in and attempt to edit this mofo.

 

I wouldn't be surprised to find the edits reverted either. There was an article on Slashdot about Wikipedia losing editors with a good chunk of the comments relating negative experiences with people being contributors run off because of assholes who consider a page "their" page.

Run off, banned, etc. Jimbo needs to revamp the place considerably.

 

Hour 12... my Edit still remains. Not that my Edit is any better but it's at least semi factual

My Edits in Bold

 

The SNES/Super Famicom had a slow CPU for the time.

The story of the Playstation goes similar to what MottZilla stated, except that after the first Philips CD unit was shelved, an agreement was made where Sony, Philips, AND Nintendo would combine their work to create another CD unit with a better specification. This, of course, was also dumped as the 16bit market was dying off.

 

If I remember correctly what really pissed Sony off was that they planned to announce the CD deal with Nintendo at CES and only learned of the Phillips deal after the convention had already started.

 

That is the common story.

I've also heard Sony was just going to do their own SNES/CD ROM and just scrapped that after the concept stage and did the Playstation

 

Right. The SNES had a relatively under powered CPU compared to the PC-Engine/TurboGrafx with a similar family cpu clocked at over 7mhz where the SNES CPU performed somewhere roughly around 2.68mhz. The MegaDrive/Genesis has a totally different CPU in the 68000 but it most likely performed faster for games of the era than the SNES's CPU.

The "advanced" parts of the SNES hardware when it came out would have been the graphics hardware which supported alot of different graphics modes with differing attributes and features, and the sound hardware that again had many unique things about it compared to the competition. Finally the SNES boasted the most memory. For main memory the PCE had 8K I think, MD had 64K, and SNES had 128K. Useful for various things such as simulation games and decompression buffers.

I think the assumption for the SNES's lesser CPU was to avoid raising the cost of the hardware further or to avoid cutting the graphical and audio features they had wanted.

 

lol i likes this:

 

Good luck getting any changes in the wikipedia "foundation", the idiots in charge are already pissed off about the fact that they didnt get to make a billion dollars off other people's work, and that they were denounced for using hundreds of thousands of dollars from donations for their own personal expense accounts.

The only way to change wikipedia is to create a new improved one that utterly destroys it