PlayStation
Ken Kutaragi, father of PlayStation, recalls how Sony thought the console would fail
During a presentation at the Tokyo Game Show last week, the creator and father of PlayStation recalled how even Sony didn’t trust his console.
The story of the PlayStation is one that every video game fan knows. Although the console became a milestone in the mid-1990s and a system that ultimately changed the entire video game industry, it was initially considered a failure. At least that is what Ken Kutaragi, the “father of PlayStation,” recalled during a presentation at the Tokyo Game Show.
“Nobody believed we would be successful. Not even within Sony”
Last week, former SIE president Ken Kutaragi appeared at the Japanese show during the “Trailblaze the World with Gaming” keynote, where he recalled some of the history of the console and his ambition to bring it to market (via VGC). He commented on how neither Sony nor other possible companies believed in the future console, something that has now been proven wrong, 30 years after its launch and 4 more generations of consoles.
“We wanted to share the passion,” said Kuturagi at the Tokyo Games Show. “We wanted to hear their expectations and what they did not expect, so we wanted to hear from them. So we visited dozens of companies if not hundreds, we visited a lot of game makers. It was a great memory. They were not interested. 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.”
Sony is already thinking about PlayStation 6
And while in the past Sony did not consider the success of the first PlayStation, now they are already looking ahead to the next generation and the PlayStation 6. So much so that the latest reports related to this console indicate that since 2022 the Japanese company had already decided that AMD would be responsible for developing the next processor of the successor to the PlayStation 5. According to the report, one of the key elements behind this decision was backward compatibility, something that would be easier to achieve thanks to the custom AMD chip inside the PlayStation 5.
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