In the early 1990s, prominent electronics manufacturer Sony attempted to start up a partnership with Nintendo, which was on a hot streak thanks to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The plan was for Sony to create a CD-based add-on for the SNES, but when the partnership fell through (leading instead to Nintendo’s ill-fated dalliance with Philips and the CD-I), Sony decided to use the design itself. This was how the original PlayStation came to be, an event that would
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