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Game companies are constantly trying to extract more money from customers. It’s easy to think they hate us, but there’s one thing that game companies hate more than the consumer, and that’s other game companies. Here are 10 game companies that despise each other.
10) The classic, the vintage hatred: Sony and Nintendo. The original modern video game rivalry was between Nintendo and Sega, but after a string of bad decisions on Sega’s part, Nintendo emerged as the victor. Well, sort of. They defeated their enemy, but in the process, they managed to create their worst rival yet. Yes, that might sound a little dramatic, but there’s truth to it. Back in the early ’90s, Nintendo partnered with Sony to create a CD-based console. However, in a public act of betrayal, Nintendo announced they were working with Philips instead, just one day after Sony announced the partnership. It was an act of corporate spite seldom seen now. Nintendo probably had valid reasons to suspect that Sony’s partnership was merely a smokescreen to gain access to Nintendo’s console-making knowledge, and Sony was looking to launch their console, whether Nintendo was involved or not. I understand Nintendo’s rationale, but perhaps it wasn’t the best approach. If they had worked together, who knows? Maybe we’d have gotten a CD-based Nintendo console that people liked, rather than the disastrous…
