The Story of the Sony Playstation | ColdFusion

you are watching ColdFusion TV hi welcome to another ColdFusion video you can dislike Sony's PlayStation it was a machine that brought us countless hours of fun and was ahead of its time but assuring in the 3d era of console gaming but where did the PlayStation come from and what's the story behind it for the first time on ColdFusion this episode will be centered around Sony let's take a look at the story the PlayStation all started with one man ken Kutaragi a Sony engineer ken first became interested in working in videogames in 1988 after seeing his daughter play games on Nintendo's Entertainment System console full of inspiration ken approached Nintendo to create a cd-rom drive for their upcoming Super Nintendo system the new drive was to be called the super disc Nintendo agreed and Ken brought together a research and development team with insane in 1990 the following year at CES Sony would show off the Nintendo compatible Super disc now codenamed the PlayStation it was a multimedia powerhouse capable of not only playing Nintendo games but also audio CDs data CDs and video CDs a pretty big deal for 1991 unfortunately for Sony disaster was around the corner just one day later Nintendo would surprise everyone with an announcement they announced that they would break their partnership with saying in making the Super disc and partner would philips instead to work towards the same technology this made the president of Sony norio ogre furious even more unfortunately for Ken other employees within Sony thought that the idea of entering the videogame industry was a bad idea and they let him know about it in 1992 a meeting was held within Sony to discuss the future of the PlayStation the concept was very close to being scrapped but Ken reminded norio of how Nintendo had dishonored the company while the world was watching nor even agreed to let the playstation project continue however the older generation of Sony executives was still very unhappy about Sony entering the videogame industry this force can and his newly formed team to leave Sony's main headquarters and continue work at Sony Music headquarters with the groundwork for the new projects ordered Sony had a choice to make should this console focus on 2d graphics or 3d polygon graphics while the team are contemplating this dilemma a new gaming phenomena was taking over Japanese arcades it was Virtua Fighter a 3d polygons game by Sega the Sony team now had their answer not long after this in 1993 Sony Computer Entertainment would be formed out of the CEO of Sony Music and Ken could arrive himself the involvement of Sony Music was actually a blessing in disguise as the marketing creative talent and manufacturing of the discs could be done in-house saving both time and money the following year in a Tokyo hotel Sony would showcase some technical demos the technical demo showed in the hotel session were good enough to open the floodgates for keen developers big players like Electronic Arts and Namco were now interested so what caused all of this interest the PlayStation had solid 3d graphics and most importantly CD capabilities which are a major step above present-day cartridges in December of 1994 the PlayStation was let loose in Japan its main competition was the Sega Saturn never really that was a loud fluid and free in real-time 3d never not anywhere but especially not on that other system simply because with only one processor it doesn't have the power to do fly plaything fly you're not already yeah sales for both consoles started off strong but despite this the Sega Saturn ultimately proved to be a failure the main reasons being that the PlayStation sold for cheaper and was also much easier to develop for meaning many more games than the Sega Saturn a Playstation worldwide release would occur in 1995 and popularity soared the PlayStation would be the first console to cross 100 million sales and would go on to become an iconic consumer product of the 1990s not even the Nintendo 64 could dampen the success of the Sony machine the PlayStation successor the cleverly titled PlayStation 2 would be the best-selling home console of all time selling 155 million units as time went on the PlayStation 3 & 4 would both be Smash Hits solidifying Sony as a leader in living room entertainment being rejected by Nintendo turned out to be one of the greatest things that happened to Sony all right so before we wrap up the video for all your knowledge seekers out there let's take a look at five fun facts about the original playstation number five have you ever wondered what the square triangle o and X actually mean well let's take a look the triangle represents the players point of view the square represents a piece of paper for menus and in-game documents the O means yes and the X means no but funnily enough in western markets this was reversed number four the first major Sony developed game was motor toon Grand Prix by a small team called Polly's Polly's would go on to become polyphony digital the creator of the legendary Gran Turismo series number three in 1994 Namco developed a test board called system 11 to simulate the PlayStation one during development the first major title to use this board was a test program for a fighting game to experiment with textures on 3d characters this experiment would eventually turn into one of the most legendary games of all time tekken a key playstation hit number two the best-selling game of the playstation was Gran Turismo shifting over 10 million units this is followed by Final Fantasy 7 Resident Evil Tekken 3 Tomb Raider and crash bandicoot number 1 so what about ken kutaragi today he serves as the president and CEO of an Internet service company called cyber AI Entertainment Inc last year Ken received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 game developer conference nice to see that he's still doing stuff good on you can it's pretty cool that even though people hated Ken's idea and another company betrayed him he's still stuck with it forever changing the course of gaming history anyway that was just a bit of Technology history for you I hoped you liked this video and if you did give it a thumbs up and subscribe if you're new feel free to leave a comment of your favorite PlayStation memory this has been - go go you've been watching cold fusion and I'll see you again soon for the next video cold fusion it's rethinking

Channel: ColdFusion

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Length: 7min 18sec (438 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 29 2015

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[u/Ippo_Mak]

This just make me feel old....Nice Video but Damn I am old...

[u/Kitchens_Ink]

5:38 did he say grand pricks?