According to Ex-Sony executive Phil Harrison, the big Nintendo/Sony falling out over the joint Super Nintendo project in the early '90s might be the best thing to have happened to the video games industry.
In this month's episode of IGN Unfiltered, Ryan McCaffrey sat down with former PlayStation executive (and current Google VP) Phil Harrison to talk about the infamous split, as well as Harrison's time at Sony, Microsoft, Google, and much more.
Harrison began by providing a short history lesson, for those unfamiliar with the deal, "The vision... the plan was, Sony would make a combined unit, which was a Super Nintendo and a CD drive mixed together," Harrison said. "Sony already made the sound chip for the Super Nintendo, so that was the thing that created the relationship. In fact, Mr.
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In this month's episode of IGN Unfiltered, Ryan McCaffrey sat down with former PlayStation executive (and current Google VP) Phil Harrison to talk about the infamous split, as well as Harrison's time at Sony, Microsoft, Google, and much more.
Harrison began by providing a short history lesson, for those unfamiliar with the deal, "The vision... the plan was, Sony would make a combined unit, which was a Super Nintendo and a CD drive mixed together," Harrison said. "Sony already made the sound chip for the Super Nintendo, so that was the thing that created the relationship. In fact, Mr.
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