The history of Sony’s original PlayStation is largely well known to gamers, born of a disagreement with Nintendo, who it once partnered with to provide a CD-ROM drive for the Super Nintendo.
That disagreement, which reportedly infuriated Sony president Norio Ohga, let to a transition in power. Edge explores the birth of the console that would ultimately change the landscape of the industry, with Sony chinking away at the armor of then-dominant consoles from Sega and Nintendo with its PlayStation. As a companion piece to [[link]] the magazine’s historical piece on the “Fall of Nintendo,” it’s a fascinating follow-up.
Not only do readers get a peek at preliminary PlayStation logos—which some have probably seen before—and the evolution of the console’s controllers, we get a chance to see the old Sony guard in their prime, when Phil Harrison had hair and Ken Kutaragi had a real job.
There’s real drama here, when consoles had surprise launches, executives undercut the [[link]] prices set by their Japanese bosses and games [[link]] like the original Tekken were complete unknowns. Fascinating stuff.
The Making Of: PlayStation [Edge-Online] [Image Credit]