Where do you think gaming would be if Sony and Nintendo remained partners?

From what I remember, Nintendo was wise to turn it down. Sony tried to weasel into the contract that they'd own any property on the system. Nintendo wasn't going to give up Mario just for help on a console.

From what I remember, Nintendo was wise to turn it down. Sony tried to weasel into the contract that they'd own any property on the system. Nintendo wasn't going to give up Mario just for help on a console.

I don't think the Xbox would have ever got made and Nintendo&Sony could potentially corner the market while both companies make their own respective consoles.

you seem to think the partnership would have been permanent when it was not going to be

sony had planned to leave nintendo for there own console down the line and keep ownership of every game nintendo made on the collab console

Sony is a crooked company.

you seem to think the partnership would have been permanent when it was not going to be

sony had planned to leave nintendo for there own console down the line and keep ownership of every game nintendo made on the collab console

It doesn't mean they would be tricked into giving Mario to Sony.

sony would not own the mario IP

but they would own any mario game released on the device

Where was this said?

thats what is meant when the contract said they would own anything released on the device

It was, by all accounts, Nintendos skepticism in the viability of CD-ROMs that caused it to give away too much in the contract it signed with Kutaragi. Sony got the rights to create and sell CD-ROM software that would run on the Super NES-compatible machine, which it called the Play Station. It wouldnt have to pay Nintendo any royalties or get its approval for CD-ROM games. This meant that if developers and consumers did embrace CD-ROM gaming on the Super NES, Nintendo wouldnt get a dime off any of those game salesonly the hardware sales.
Why would Nintendo allow this to happen? Maruyama said it was because Sony explicitly told them we were going to focus on everything but video games. In other words, Sonys position was that it would make encyclopedias, home karaoke software, and other non-gaming applications using CD-ROMs, and leave all the gaming to Nintendo. But apparently this was not in the contract itself, and once the ink was on paper, Sony had carte blanche.