It's not ridiculous, it's reasonable. It would be idiotic if they hadn't released the Witcher games on Steam because of being too proud or something. I bet they got most of the sales on Steam. Not to mention that The Witcher 1 is older than GOG.

Only if Steam dies. I'm happy to do anything I can to help though. :P

They probably got more sales from it. But i don't understand why they would put stuff on a rivals site. It's almost like helping them out.

Sony used to make games on the nintendo gameboy. That would not happen in this day and age.

Woah, really? The only things I can think of are Crash Bandicoot and Spyro and I didn't think they were actually owned by Sony, just mostly associated with the Playstation.

Back on the original Gameboy (early 90's) i had some games that were published by Sony. Chuck Rock i think was one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmRRdrF_uxM

Sony were going to collaborate with Nintendo to make a console, but Nintendo were adamant to stay with cartridges. Obviously Sony wanted to push their cd's at the time, so they went ahead and did their own thing. It worked quite well for both companies.

Oh yeah, I know the story. It was going to be a Mega CD addon rather than a standalone console and Nintendo publicly dumped Sony, which is what made them such bitter rivals. :P

Secret of Mana (one of my favourite games) was originally going to be a Nintendo Playstation game and had to be cut down massively to fit on a cartridge.

Secret Of Mana is an awesome game. Despite being cut down (never knew about it potentially going to the PS1) it turned out great. A game that looked like it had been made for the Snes (Breath of fire 3) was also absolutely fantastic.

Nono, it wasn't going to be a PS1 game, it was going to be a SNES game for the SNES CD addon (which I was calling the Nintendo Playstation for fun). It definitely came out great though.

Good grief, console addons were a bad idea. I think even the N64 tried it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64DD

Did not Play Station start out as an addon Sony was making for Nintendo, but then Nintendo went back on the deal - and Sony decided to turn it into a console to recoup the R&D costs ?

While CDPRed and GOG are part of the same company, the are actually separate and the decision of where to sell a game is not necessarily theirs. In the case of The Witcher, Atari was the publisher that decided where it would go, while The Witcher 2 was self-published by CDPRed. For a relatively small publisher like CDPRed, getting a game like that into as many stores as possible is simply good business.
Yup.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_playstation.htm
Interesting if true "a playstation console that used snes cartridges"

http://i.imgur.com/9fip2h.jpg

Thanks for the laugh, OP. :D