people loved it? almost no one saw it... it was a prototype. *sony* loved it and so they built the ps1. it was not innovative to use cd's as a medium, it was more evolutionary. i think nintendo didn't go this way with n64 because of the risk games could be copied (which helped ps1 alot to get consumer's attention).
btw, sony tries to "original" by "inventing" "new" mediums - look at memory-stick, psp, psv... but the customers don't really seem to like sony's efforts for originality.








