PlayStation”, has claimed that everyone at Sony thought the original PlayStation would be a massive flop.While working at Sony in the ‘90s, Kutaragi helped Nintendo work on the soundchip for its upcoming Super Nintendo Entertainment System, which led to the two companies working together on a CD-Rom add-on for the console.
While the project never launched publicly, it led to Kutuagi working on the original PlayStation as well as overseeing production of the PS2 and the PS3.Released in 1994, the PlayStation became the first console to sell over 100million units and established Sony as a leader in the gaming space.Reflecting on the development of the console, Kutaragi told the crowd at Tokyo Game Show how he visited hundreds of game developers. “We wanted to share the passion.
We wanted to hear their expectations and what they did not expect.”However, Sony didn’t get the warmest of welcomes. “They were not interested,” said Kutaragi. “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. Even within Sony, nobody believed that we would be successful,” he added.Thirty years later, and PlayStation remains one of the Big Three console creators.
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