Showing posts with label SNES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SNES. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

PlayStation: The Bastard Child of Nintendo and Sony


It's definitely up for debate, but I think it's safe to say that most people feel the SNES produced higher fidelity sounds than its main competition, the Sega Genesis.  That's because the SNES has a Sony sound chip in it.  Developed by Ken Kutaragi in secret due to the fact that Sony had zero desire to do anything related to video games, the chips success softened Sony executives enough to consider developing a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo called the Play Station.