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Business Wars

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History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Can you imagine video games without Sony? A partnership between Sony and Nintendo could have changed the future of Playstation — and the video game industry — as we know it… if the deal hadn’t ended with a dramatic betrayal. Tristan Donovan, author of Replay: The History of Video Games (and writer of this season of Business Wars), joins David to tell us about the console that almost wasn’t. You’ll also hear why Nintendo is so hard to predict, and where the video games market is going next.

For the full story on what went down with Playstation in the early 1990s, listen to the Business Wars Nintendo vs. Sony season, also written by Tristan.

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0:00.0	I'm David Brown and this is Business Wars. The Can you remember your first video game console?
0:32.8	Were you an Atari OG or a Sega loyalist?
0:35.9	Perhaps you pledged your allegiance to Nintendo
0:38.2	and all the absurd yet totally awesome gadgets
0:40.9	to go with it.
0:42.2	Bonus points if you got your hands on the short-lived
0:44.4	power glove. I love the power glove. It's so bad. And then there's the folks who
0:50.0	made the jump to a PlayStation or Xbox and never looked back. But behind these consoles
0:56.0	are some pretty tense battles to the top. Of course there was the fight between
1:00.6	Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox. But there was another console king that
1:05.5	Sony had to face in order for PlayStation to exist in the first place, and that Titan of
1:10.9	gaming would go on to leave their partner hanging in a big way.
1:15.7	Here to tell us all about it is our longstanding and prolific Business Wars writer Tristan Donovan.
1:21.4	He's the author of the book replay, The History of Video Games.
1:25.2	He also wrote our most recent Xbox versus PlayStation series.
1:29.6	Tristan's dishing on what went down before PlayStation hit the market when Nintendo was secretly
1:35.0	teeming up with Sony in a partnership that would ultimately end in betrayal.
1:40.0	We'll talk about Nintendo's designation as the dark horse of the gaming business,
1:45.0	and later dive into where gaming consoles will fall in a future that's going mobile.
1:51.0	All that's coming up.
1:59.0	Hello, it's Elizabeth Day here from the How to Fail Podcast. I know many of you have been gripped by Wondere's rather spooky murder mystery podcast, Ghost Story, myself included, and so I'm delighted to announce that I'll be hosting a very special one-off event called Ghost Story Live. So come join me, Ghost Story
2:17.0	host Tristan Redmond, and producer Annie Brown for an unforgettable night of true crime mystery and investigation on the 5th of February
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