The PlayStation brand gave it momentum, but with the ongoing scandals (illegal advertising, shifty marketing gimmicks, Lik-Sang forced shutdown), and the glitches in the hardware design (half-tactile square button, UMD accidental eject "ninja star", optical media in portable device), the designers saw that the sales were becoming less and less towards games and more towards portable emulation. I even considered getting it myself once just to play some SNES on the move...







