Electronic Arts about Philips CD-i

[MattTheSaiyan]

Philips (and other involved companies like Sony) aimed for the "Every Home should have one" market and missed by several lightyears. But it does have the excellent "Hanna-Barbera's Cartoon Carnival"!!

[c0deMunkey]

stewart cheifet is such a douche

[saunjuan2]

a small box lol what is there definition of small 

[whatthi]

you are wrong Wendy Woods!!!!

[ArcadeGames]

More like losses of 10 of millions!

[masticina]

It MIGHT have had been a success. But luckily it wasn't lets be fair :) It was to expensive had bad controllers and wasn't that much special.

[djslapdash]

lol at 1:32



[thedirtys2006]

in the tens of millions of units. who would hav knew.

[jesusboner]

piece of hardware? more like piece of shit!

[closdef]

Lmfao @ psyjax

[psyjax]

Man, that CD-i really took off! Remember the console wars where, after bankrupting Sega and Nintendo, CD-i and 3DO were head to head?

yea, neither do I.

[Meleemario720]

@killer7rulesjajaja Long Box! :P

[Protoman85]

Did EA do any games for the CD-i?

[gshowguy]

As far as I know, no.

[vgmh131]

I still got my CD-i and sometimes even play Myst or Lost Eden cos they were just great ;>

[pseudohippie55]

L10 of millions of units?! there are more views on walrusguy's poops than CD-Is sold! LMAO

laughs until breathing stops

dies

shit...

[Magmaster12]

I'm sure the person playing this would say "screw this this game is so bad they deserve to die"

[sonnenscheinman]

I had one ... :-)

Was freakin - the digital video experience - best mpeg1 quality - but hey - it was really cool when it came out!

[MichaelCapelle]

Tens of millions of units? WHAAA! Gimme a break!

[revengeofthecookie]

It only cracked half a million.:P

[InsaneComedy]

Their dreams were obviously too big.

[ooliveric]

CD-I is so bad

[MadraDot]

Small box?! Haven't heard of the AVGN?! XD the only one working is awesomely big!

[carfoz]

So its EA who killed the cd-i!!!!

;p

[RustyK940]

Jesus how many things did they predict back then would sell 10's of millions. Yet these products turn out to be total shit and sell nothing.

[Skullworld]

470,000 units sold

[DukeIdiot]

Wow, that many? That is a lot for a piece of garbage.

[XKaiminalX]

The Apple Pippin did worse, with only 42,000 sold or probably less.

[gsp2241]

@Skullworld not quite tens of millions

[MrMAHBOI1]

@Skullworld 570,000

[akumacornflakes]

It's pretty sad that if that test game were released, it actually would have been the best game on the system...

[saturnmason]

Who kidnapped the CD-I team? Probably the angry Zelda fans LOL!

[mp4podcastDOTcom]

@saturnmason LMAO that's fucking funny LOL

[DjGizzo]

i like that style of game

[AzumiRM]

I think EA games did predict correct in that CD technology would take over the market but to back the CDi? I think this was because the CDI was the first CD based console and perhaps they just wanted to show off what they could do.

[Carolda2]

Did It Released

[CollisionCat]

Yes, it was released.

[DerRudymeister]

It might havebeen good, but they screwed up....and I'm happy they did.

[Cerebralbored]

"This is what the CD-i is SUPPOSED to do."

lol

[elgilicious]

Sale projections in the tens of millions? The only sold just over half a million. Bomb.

[downsouth420]

I wonder how much for one of those prototypes?

[pintend]

1 mili-cent!

lol!

[ravnen]

I had a CD-I but I traded it for tickets

to a musical festival... such a shame.

[subarumitsubishi]

well, they didn't sell millions, but EA did become one of the leading providers of games.

[Intersonus903]

They were also a leading provider of games for the 3DO. We can see where that went.

[AzumiRM]

EA Games hold a monopoly on the PC market

[thedragonflyproject]

Late 1989? As soon as that, eh?

I used to love my CDi.. When I was young and foolish...

[Tornado1994]

Late '89? The CDi didn't launch until 1991. Although it sounded good on paper noone realized how awful it turned out to be.

[pseudohippie55]

you know what they say,

all toasters toast toast!

yeah...those games were shit

[Watcher3223]

@Tornado1994

The Compact Disc green book, which laid down the specifications for CD-i, was finalized in 1986.

[Segadude3000]

CD-i format, not the system

[Megabunghole]

LOL!!! Noone bought a CD-I and Electronic Arts didnt even make any games for it either.