Shuhei Yoshida, the recently-departed head of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s indie initiative, has revealed that the hardware giant’s first ever game was a space shooter that was in production for the scrapped Nintendo PlayStation console.
Speaking with MinnMax, Yoshida-san reflected on his 30 years with Sony, revealing that on his first day with the company he got to play the Nintendo PlayStation alongside Sony’s first ever title.
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.
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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. 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].
In case you don’t know your PlayStation history, Sony had originally collaborated with Nintendo on new hardware in the early 1990s, but the partnership famously split and instead Sony went onto develop the PlayStation itself.
[Source- MinnMax]