Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has revealed details on Sony’s first ever game, which he claims was ‘almost finished’ for the company’s canceled Nintendo PlayStation project.
PlayStation famously started life as a failed partnership with Nintendo in the early 1990s, which was Sony’s first major move into video games and eventually led to it entering the market on its own.
Asked to reflect on his memories of joining PlayStation in 1993, Yoshida – who quit Sony last month after 31 years at the company – told MinnMax that he got to play the ‘Nintendo PlayStation’ on his very first day, along with Sony’s first game project.
“The first thing they showed us was that Nintendo-Sony PlayStation, a prototype already working, and also they had almost finished a game on it, and I got to play it on the system the day I joined,” he said.
“It was like a shooter. Do you remember on the Sega CD system, there’s an amazing game from Game Arts, a space shooter, and all the assets are streamed from the CD… so lots of assets coming in,” he added, referencing the 1993 title Silpheed. “I don’t remember [who created it]. It could have been developed in the US or Japan. I wouldn’t be surprised [if it was in Sony’s archive].”
The PlayStation was originally envisioned as a CD add-on for the Super Nintendo, which would boost Nintendo’s console with significant processing power and speed.
The only known Nintendo PlayStation prototype sold for $360,000 USD back in 2020. The prototype sold at auction – said to be the last remaining in the world, with all others assumed destroyed – was once owned by the first CEO of Sony’s games division, Olaf Olafsson.
For more on Sony’s failed partnership with Nintendo, read VGC’s PSOne’s betrayal and revenge story feature.
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