Former SIE CEO and “the father of the PlayStation” Ken Kutaragi says that no one, not even Sony, believed the PS1 would be a success | Gaming

It turns out that Sony was not particularly confident in the original PlayStation doing all that well.

As it stands, the original PlayStation is the sixth best selling console of all time. It’s not quite as popular as the PS4 or the console that takes the number one spot, the beloved PS2, but it’s still a very impressive feat. And despite all 102.49 million of those sales, before the console actually launched, according to Ken Kutaragi, the former Sony SIE CEO who is also known as “the father of the PlayStation”, Sony didn’t actually have all that much faith in it, and neither did anyone else. Kutaragi recently made an appearance during the 2024 Tokyo Game Show official keynote, where he spoke about the lead-up to the launch of the console (thanks,…