Sony launched the PlayStation in Japan on December 3, 1994. Until 1993, the company would not have a section of video games, Sony Computer Entertaiment. The collaboration, in the end, was essential for the production of CDs. The company derived the project, with Kutaragi to the head, to Sony Music not to be responsible for the unpredictable consequences of the bet.

However, Kutaragi's obstinacy caused the company to move forward. Sony's dome, reluctant from the outset to enter the video game market, was intended to end the adventure here. Ken Kutaragi, who at that time was a Sony computer He moved, along with his research, from one lab to another, until Teruo Tokunaka took him to see then-president Norio Ohga to expose his idea. The video game giant, however, broke with the Japanese technology, then neophyte in The industry because it felt that it was too much in the control and benefits derived from the sale of CD games.

Nintendo agreed with Sony, in the late 1980s, to develop for its successful Super Nintendo an appendix to incorporate games on CD, in addition to the traditional cartridge.

It all started with a broken contract with Nintendo at the end of the decade of 1980. PlayStation 1 was released on Decemin Japan, 3rd September, 1995 in the U.S.