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A Play Station console was shown at trade shows in 1991, and while it was originally envisioned as a way to play CDs on the SNES, a deal was struck in 1992 to have Sony's console sport a slot for SNES cartridges (with Nintendo keeping full ownership and most of the profits from said carts).
Everything quickly fell apart when the then-president of Nintendo realized the contract's wording let Sony have full ownership and profits over the console's games. The company terminated the contract and forged a partnership with Philips -- while Sony rebuilt the project from scratch, dropping the cartridge slot and creating the CD-ROM-only [[
Nintendo later terminated its contract with Philips, and the latter company created the CDi -- which featured [[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|three games]] based on ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' franchise and [[Hotel Mario|one]] based on the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' franchise (another two were planned, one based on ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' and another called ''Mario Takes America'', but didn't get very far). These games all sucked, and are best left [[Canon Discontinuity|unmentioned]] in discussions about their parent franchises.
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