David Rosenthal: belief

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…Maybe Nintendo looked at this and said, this is going to be bad, but if we actually proceed with this plan, it's such a bad deal for us anyway that there's really no reason to continue it. But the way they did it, oh my gosh. Nintendo, I think, thought that like, all right, well, Sony's not going to get into the games industry themselves. They can't do that. They have no first-party studios. Nintendo can go make a new console and put Mario Brothers on it, and Zelda, we make that stuff ourselves. Sony doesn't have any of that and they don't have any relationships with developers, et cetera. Sony has three options at this point as Nintendo expects. They can completely give up. They could go to Sega and try to partner with Sega, the Nintendo competitor at the time. They actually tried to do that. Sega in another boneheaded move is like, yeah, no, we're not that interested. They were just like a much smaller company at that point. The third option is that they've done all this engineering work on making a console and like, well, we could just try and do this ourselves. The Sony board and the management team, you can tell. I'm just loving this. Totally, you're grinning ear to ear. We finally get to dive into some video game history for the first time in a while.…

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