I think "PlayStation" is a perfect name that Sony came up with for their console. I'm curious what other names they were thinking of, or if it was always going to be called PlayStation?
So glad Nintendo dropped the "Ultra". Nintendo 64 was the perfect name.
I think "PlayStation" is a perfect name that Sony came up with for their console. I'm curious what other names they were thinking of, or if it was always going to be called PlayStation?
It had something to do with a trademark dispute in the United States. Nintendo wanted the N64 to follow a single unified branding for all regions so they could move away from things like: Super Famicom/ Super Nintendo. Since they couldn't get "Ultra 64" they just dropped the "Ultra" out of the title and re-branded it to the N64 globally.
Thinking back, I can see why a lot of companies may not have had new software to show. You have to understand that back then, they showed all their stuff at CES (there used to be two, a winter one in Vegas and a summer one in Chicago) and with E3 95 happening just five months after winter CES, there wasn't much to show that press and retail hadn't already seen at CES.
Gotta love the CG KI characters busting dance moves within the multi- CRT setups in the background. I wonder if they were real time or pre-recorded? Nintendo used to bring SGI workstations to CES to showcase of real-time demos.
You slide that baby into a slot, you hit install, and you get one of several messages, all of which basically say that "Surely, you did not think it was gonna be this easy?"
It really is a fantastic video though, and contains some interesting rarities that are hard to find media on. Like some of these prototypes that never made it out to market. This is the first E3, and to be honest there really isn't much footage from the showroom floors on youtube.
But it mostly covers The Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx and Atari VR helmet. The most interesting part of this video is the Atari Jaguar VR helmet: https://youtu.be/fC9ZJWHFjhc?t=724
It was honestly really advanced for 1995. But still lacked due to technical limitations.
Sega keynote ended with the infamous Saturn "It's Out There" announcement. I wonder if any of the big three will pull that off, and if they did, what kind of pandemonium would ensue.
So the Sony keynote opened up with an amazing trailer. That was awesome, and made the whole Sega keynote look like a business meeting.