Former Sony chairman discusses the demise of the SNES Playstation, how one dev stirred up trouble

Coming from a Dwango interview with Shigeo Maruyama, who was once the the CEO of Sony Music Entertainment as well as the former chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment....

- Ken Kutaragi was originally in charge of the sound chip on the SNES
- Kutaragi pushed to install/attach a CD-ROM drive to the top of the SNES
- the idea didn't catch on at first and Nintendo wanted to stick to Mask ROMs for games
- Nintendo eventually decided to go ahead with the idea
- Kutaragi was told he couldn't do anything related to Mask ROMs, but could work on whatever he wanted, including CDs
- the president of NoA at the time, Mr. Arakawa, warned that letting Kutaragi do whatever he wants could cause problems
- Kutaragi said his plans would focus on everything but video games
- there was an idea for a karaoke platform
- right before the announcement, Nintendo put a lid on it
- no one seems to know why Sony didn't sue Nintendo after cancelling the project when Sony had a contract
- Maruyama told everyone it was Nintendo's fault completely, which he knew not to be the case
- Kutaragi was also stirring up trouble and talking to Sony about how Nintendo ruined their honor
- Kutaragi made the whole thing out to bigger than it really was, trying to use the situation to further his own ambitions