Evolution of the Playstation, and How it Almost Was the Nintendo Playstation

If you know your gaming history, you already know one of the most infamous events in all of console time was Nintendo and Sony’s collaboration to make a hybrid SNES/CD-ROM machine called the “PlayStation.” For those who already had SNESes, they could theoretically buy a separate CD-ROM drive that plugged into the bottom of the console (if you still have an SNES, check the bottom of it….there’s a little door there where it was going to hook up). To make a long story short, Nintendo later decided it didn’t like elements of the original contract that handed most of the CD profits over to Sony, so they stabbed them in the back. Sony got so angry they made the console independently, and got revenge by taking over the market for two whole generations until the Wii.

The original Sony Playstation might have looked like this. Below find some more pictures of the evolution of the Playstation.