Father of PlayStation says ‘everyone told us we would fail’


Kutaragi, known as the ‘Creator of PlayStation’, speaking at an event during the preview day for the annual Tokyo Game Show at Makuhari Messe in the city of Chiba, Chiba Prefecture. The PlayStation has been a colossal consumer hit but three decades ago its creator Ken Kutaragi struggled to convince both game-makers and his bosses at Sony that his console would be a winner. — AFP

TOKYO: The PlayStation has been a colossal consumer hit, but three decades ago, its creator Ken Kutaragi struggled to convince both game-makers and his bosses at Sony that his console would be a winner.

“Everyone told us we would fail,” Kutaragi told AFP in a rare interview.

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