"The father of PlayStation" says everyone at Sony thought the PS1 would fail when it was first pitched

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“We wanted to share our passion,” Kuturagi said.

They just said, ‘Don’t do it.

There were multiple companies and none of them were successful.

You are going to fail.’

That’s what they told us."

“Even withinSony, nobody believed that we would be successful.”