The CDi is one of the very few European 'game consoles' and it had a modest fanbase here. If Philips didn't push the whole FMV multimedia thing onto it, and made it more competent at playing games, they may have rivaled their own past buddies, Sony. Those Nintendo licensed games totally were a disaster, and no self respecting Nintendo fan in the 90s would have touched them. That probably did the CDi a lot of damage.
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Re: Hardware Classics: Uncovering The Tragic Tale Of The Philips CD-i
The CDi is one of the very few European 'game consoles' and it had a modest fanbase here. If Philips didn't push the whole FMV multimedia thing onto it, and made it more competent at playing games, they may have rivaled their own past buddies, Sony. Those Nintendo licensed games totally were a disaster, and no self respecting Nintendo fan in the 90s would have touched them. That probably did the CDi a lot of damage.