Sony makes nicey-nice with Connectix

Back in 1999 Sony Corporation took Connectix to court over the latter's Virtual Game Station product. This piece of software was an emulator of the popular Playstation games console, and allowed PC and Mac users to play Playstation games on their

Back in 1999 Sony Corporation took Connectix to court over the latter's Virtual Game Station product. This piece of software was an emulator of the popular Playstation games console, and allowed PC and Mac users to play Playstation games on their computers. Sony's argument was that the emulator was ultimately damaging to not only them, but to developers and consumers as well.

A few days ago the case was settled out of court, and today Sony has made the announcement that it is acquiring all of Connectix' Virtual Game Station interests, and that both companies will continue to jointly develop further emulation technologies. No further legal action is being considered by either party.

It's an interesting move, and one that might see Sony beginning to develop titles for other games platforms. This could be an effort on Sony's behalf to combat the coming X-box phenomenon by broadening its install base onto the PC platform. On the other hand it could just be that Sony didn't like not having control over the emulator market. Go figure.
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