Nintendo and Sony then struck another deal. Sony would create a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES, which Sony called the "Play Station". According to this Kotaku story, Sony's contract with Nintendo also ...

The early history of the Sony Playstation lies in a stillborn collaboration between Nintendo and Sony to produce an SNES with a CD-ROM drive. So the story goes, Nintendo’s Philips deal angered ...

A prototype from a failed collaboration between Nintendo and Sony, it combined SNES cartridge support with emerging CD-ROM ...