![]() ![]() This deal however broke off when Nintendo violated Sony's contract by partnering with Philips, a rival company to Sony, to produce a similar peripheral. In the early 1990's, Nintendo partnered with Sony to produce a CD-ROM based add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as well as a two-in-one system that played both cartridge-based Super NES/Super Famicom games and CD-based "SuperDisc" games called the Nintendo "PlayStation". Because the CD-i failed to sell well, Philips took it off the market in 1998. Because the CD-i was seen as a game console by the general public, it did not sell well when compared to the more powerful and less expensive dedicated game consoles available at the time. Although while not focusing entirely on games, the CD-i is best known as a failed game console, in part because almost all of the games available were of very low quality, especially those licensed by Nintendo. It was originally designed as a general-purpose multimedia device, with games only being considered as an afterthought as additional applications. The console was designed to play audio CDs and, with add-on hardware, video CDs as well. ![]()
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