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From Bedrooms to Billions: The PlayStation Revolution Documentary Review – Essential PlayStation History



From Bedrooms to Billions: The PlayStation Revolution doesn?t actually start with PlayStation. In order to have a revolution, there has to be something in need of change. The documentary kicks off with the ?rivalry? between Nintendo and Sega in the late ?80s and early ?90s, and an era of 2D gaming in need of a shake up. Sony?s partnership with Nintendo began in the late ?80s, with Sony-made sound chips in the Super Famicom and Super Nintendo. That evolved into an agreement for new gaming technology?a disc-drive attachment for the Super Nintendo and a separate combo disc-drive/cartridge console called the ?Sony Play Station.? The intention of this partnership was to offer game developers more storage space via optical media, but Nintendo felt Sony was overreaching a bit too much in what they wanted from it. This original early ?90s ?Play Station? idea was a far cry from what Sony would eventually create. After being snubbed by Nintendo, who announced a partnership with Philips for the CD attachment instead, an embarrassed Sony set to work creating not only their own console, but an entire business venture which would eventually become PlayStation. From Bedrooms to Billions: The PlayStation Revolution talks to a wide variety of gaming industry veterans to not only capture the information, but also the feeling of this time. It goes in-depth on what the gaming landscape was like, from certain people writing Sony off for not knowing what they were doing with manufacturing and ...
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