The gaming console landscape we know today is dominated by three key players: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. More than a decade before the first Xbox made its debut in 2001, however, Sony wasn’t even a contender and Sega was Nintendo’s sole competition.
In the late ‘80s, Nintendo commissioned Sony to develop a CD-ROM for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) – a cartridge-based console that hadn’t even been released yet.


