Super NES CD-ROM

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The Super NES CD-ROM, or SNES CD, was a proposed video game platform developed by Nintendo via joint ventures with Sony and Philips that would have added compact disc (CD) support for the cartridge-based Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The two collaborations led to two separate projects that would have used different formats based on CD-ROM; the Sony project was a dedicated all-in-one unit under the name "PlayStation" using the Super Disc format, and the Philips project was an add-on unit for the SNES that used the Nintendo Disc (ND) format. All of these projects were cancelled shortly after Nintendo backed out of both collaborations a few years into development, which consequently made Sony develop its own console using the PlayStation name afterwards, and Philips gaining licenses for some Nintendo properties for its CD-i platform, many of which were unsuccessful and poorly received. Nintendo would not release an optical disc-based console of their own until 2001 with the GameCube.

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