When that partnership faltered, Kutaragi and Sony moved forward with the original PlayStation in 1994.
“We wanted to share the passion,” said Kuturagi at theTokyo Games ShowviaVGC.
So we visited dozens of companies if not hundreds, we visited a lot of game makers.
It was a great memory.
They were not interested.
They just said, ‘Don’t do it.
There were multiple companies and none of them were successful.
You are going to fail.’
That’s what they told us."
It’s understandable why not everyone shared Kuturagi’s passion for the project.
When PlayStation entered the market, Nintendo and Sega were the only two dominant console-makers.
Through four successive console generations, Sony remains one of the most dominant companies in video games.
And it all started because Kutaragi and his team had a vision for the future of gaming.
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