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Insights on the Cancelled Sony-Nintendo Console Project (www.retronews.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.