[fomine3]

Speaking about the origin of Sony PlayStation divison (Sony Computer Entertainment), it was derived from Sony Music. Its origin was a content company than a hardware company.

[worrycue]

Going to need a citation for that.

The PlayStation all started with Ken Kutaragi who worked in Sony’s digital research labs. It started as the “Play Station” a CD addon for the SNES. But due to contract disputes Sony got dumped for Philips in a very public fashion - probably Nintendo’s biggest mistake ever. Sony went ahead on its own and created the “PlayStation” (aka PS1 today) and the rest is history.

Don’t see where Sony Music comes into the story.

[fomine3]

That's true that Kutaragi was the biggest person (and PS won't happen without him) on SCE from hardware. But SCE corporate was also made by Sony Music people. First president and vice president were from Music. So it wasn't quite "hardware company" from the beginning. You're true that the "origin" (SNES sound chip and CD-ROM) was just a hardware. I read Japanese articles like this. https://otocoto.jp/column/utsumi02/ https://www.sony.com/ja/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/SonyH... https://www.dreamincubator.co.jp/bpj/2014/07/16/sony02/