By the end of 1992, Sony and Nintendo had reached a deal whereby the “Sony Play Station” would continue to have a port especially for SNES games, but that Nintendo would own the game rights and receive most of the profits from the games. The SNES console would still use the Sony designed audio chip.
However, Sony changed their mind and then decided a year later to begin reworking the Play Station idea to help them target the new types of hardware and software. As part of this plan the SNES cartridge port idea was dropped and the space between the words Play and Station was removed.
The final PlayStation was launched in Japan in December 1994 and went on to North America and Europe in September 1995 and Australasia in November 95. The American price was around about $299.
Sony’s launch was considered to be very successful and there were many titles that went out with the game. Every genre had games like Twisted Metal, Battle Arena Toshindan, Philosoma, Warhawk and Ridge Racer. Many of the Namco and Sony launch titles went on to spawn various sequels.
PlayStation had some very unique advertising campaigns to pique the interest of gamers. They made their advertisements very ambiguous and had gamers debating their meanings for months. Sony used different types of word-play with ENOS meaning either rEady Ninth Of September or it could be read as Sony backwards if you saw the E as a Y.
