, Layden and former CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Interactive, Andrew House, both of whom joined the company around 1990, describe how PlayStation managed to break into the market and how even people within Sony thought it was doomed to fail. “My boss said to me, more or less, ‘You’re an idiot and it’s a toy and it’s destined for failure,’” said House.
That feeling is perfectly captured in an old video 2000 captured at a midnight launch for PlayStation 2 that’s recently been. It shows lines of teens hanging out at the mall to pick up their pre-orders from GameStop trying to awkwardly explain why they dragged their parents out of bed on a school night to get a sleek new black box when they already have the old one at home.“It’s one of those things you’ve been waiting for forever,” says one kid wearing a ‘90s Ralph Lauren polo.