PlayStation: Sony's Bid for Power

[hashiriya1]

"The Game Boy should have been a Sony product!"
- Sony Manager


If you're interested in the birth of the original PlayStation then this article is worth a read. It goes into detail about the whole Sony/Nintendo CD-ROM fiasco, among other things like how most people were rightfully skeptical about Sony entering the gaming market.



I wonder if any of those "200 original PlayStation units" still exist, or were trashed.
Also, I wonder what that "absolutely awesome" game was or if it perhaps found its
way to the PS1.


Anyway, click the thumbnails to read the scans.
Next Generation, March 1995

[Hobie-wan]

Interesting read. And look at that lovely standard s-video port that went away by release day.

[noiseredux]

thanks man. This article is REALLY timely for me. Thank you for the nice read.

[Opa Opa]

I wish my PlayStation came with a cinder block stand.
Thanks for posting this.

[noiseredux]

yknow, looking back it seems funny that I was this big Nintendo-fanboy, but somehow the jump from SNES to PS1 made more sense to me that SNES to N64.

[sevin0seven]

Interesting read. And look at that lovely standard s-video port that went away by release day.

that would have been nice having a s-vid ps1 console.

[CRTGAMER]

A great read, saved the JPGs for reference. I'll use OSX and convert to PDF. THANKS!!

[hashiriya1]

yknow, looking back it seems funny that I was this big Nintendo-fanboy, but somehow the jump from SNES to PS1 made more sense to me that SNES to N64.

Same here. I never sat well with the N64. I bought an N64 at launch, but found myself always going back to my SNES and PS1.

[cyborc]

thanks for posting this! I kinda remember reading this article back in the day