Former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Ken Kuturagi has recently revealed that many people at Sony believed that the original PlayStation would fail. Considering how successful the PlayStation brand has become over the years, that’s a fairly surprising statement.
The PlayStation 1 was released in 1994 in Japan and 1995 in North America. The fifth generation console competed directly against the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Saturn, greatly outselling both platforms. The PlayStation sold over 102 million units, only being surpassed by the PS2, PS4, Game Boy, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo DS. Its debut also marks the beginning of Sony’s dominance in the console market, held by Nintendo in the two previous generations. However, this widely successful project was not greatly believed even by Sony executives for a while.
A PlayStation fan hearkens back to Sony's past with an awesome PS5 customization that looks similar to the PS2 and shares a photo on social media.
Earlier this week, Ken Kuturagi was speaking at the Tokyo Game Show, when he talked about the main difficulties of entering the console market with the first PlayStation. Back in 1993, Kuturagi was leading the PS1 development team, and they wanted...
