playstation

Japanese electronics company sony's involvment involvement in the videogame industry began as a manufacturer of a custom sound chip used in Nintendo’s SuperNES console. From here on in everybody was upgrading to cd base games such, nintendo didnt like the idea being left behind so they partnered up with sony to development. They immediately partnered up with Sony to develop their CD based system. Sony went on to develop two units. One was a 16-bit add-on for the Super Famicom / SuperNES that sat underneath the system and allowed CD based gaming (SNES CD ), and another stand alone unit.
Over all the agreement allowed sony to license games for the system, but nintendo were not willing to give control over software licensing, so they dropped sony from the project and tryed to incorparate philips into the project..... http://darkwatcher.psxfanatics.com/console/psx.htm