Insights on the Cancelled Sony-Nintendo Console Project (www.retronews.com)
from Kain1@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 04 Feb 11:19
https://lemmy.world/post/25112941

A former PlayStation employee has shared new insights about the canceled console project between Sony and Nintendo during an interview published on February 4, 2025.

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[deleted] on 04 Feb 12:29 next collapse

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frezik@midwest.social on 04 Feb 14:07 collapse

Nothing too groundbreaking here, but fills in some details. Nintendo’s tendency to be a control freak caught up with them; they were worried Sony would have too much control over the new format. A shooter prototype–never developed into a full release–gave Sony confidence that they could make their own games.

PlasticExistence@lemmy.world on 04 Feb 14:18 collapse

IIRC, Sony’s leadership wasn’t interested in their own game console until their partnership with Nintendo was unceremoniously dissolved without prior warning when Nintendo announced on stage that they were partnering with Phillips for a CD addon to the SNES.

That “betrayal” is what spurned Sony to go it alone with the hardware they had already developed as a starting point. Thus PlayStation was born.