Comment on Insights on the Cancelled Sony-Nintendo Console Project
frezik@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Nothing too groundbreaking here, but fills in some details. Nintendo’s tendency to be a control freak caught up with them; they were worried Sony would have too much control over the new format. A shooter prototype–never developed into a full release–gave Sony confidence that they could make their own games.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
IIRC, Sony’s leadership wasn’t interested in their own game console until their partnership with Sony was unceremoniously dissolved without prior warning when Nintendo announced on stage that they were partnering with Phillips for a CD addon to the SNES.
That “betrayal” is what spurned Sony to go it alone with the hardware they had already developed as a starting point. Thus PlayStation was born.