That's part of the reason why I love Nintendo. Because of Nintendo (being Nintendo) Sony decided to enter the market. I've been a happy gamer ever since. :)

Yep, back in the day when we had 2 legendary consoles where most of the best games on those consoles were first party (im referring to the Megadrive & SNES of course) all sony were doing was PUBLISHING games.(the likes of Psygnosis were acquired by sony at a later date, in preparation for screwing Nintendo over i suspect)

Yes the Playstation was born out of a failed deal , the deal was Nintendo was to sell the drive as an add on while Sony sold  a complete version , Later on Nintendo realising they would get nothing from the Sony side of the  hardware sales since it was Sony Tech and went behind Sony's back to Phillips and got them to design one for them while still letting Sony think all was well, So Sony turned up at E3 expecting to announce the add on only to find Nintendo there with Phillips .

Ken kutaragi who was keen for Sony to make the machine themselves had met a lot of resistance but later when the board met things where still going against him till he reminded the president of what occured and from the Japanese view point they had lost a lot of face and the President considered it a betrayal so he gave the the go ahead , but because of politics with many saying Sony's not a toy company , the newly formed scei was put out of the way  under Sony Music also them having  success with Sony imagesoft was seen as a factor and the rest is history.

I had Mickey Mania for the Mega-CD, it's a tribute to Mickey's cartoons. Enjoyed it quite a bit, and hoped that Epic Mickey's developer would have taken notice of it instead of creating their bland 2D levels.

'Software Only Company?'

you need to change that tittle. Sony was MASSIVE in the 80's and not for its software in gaming thats for sure

ugh... I know, im not born yesterday, I own the old walkman, I'm talking about SCEA , gaming wise.

Wikipedia tells me that Sony Imagesoft became 989 Studios which in turn became San Diego Studio. Which is cool.

I thought it was common knowledge. Then again, I'm old as fuck.

Yeah, they also made and seem to still make PC games. Everquest expansion came out on the PC last November. Sony and MS partnership confirmed!

I'm not seeing Sony anywhere mentioned on the Technōs Japan wiki page. Wouldn't it state that Sony owned them or something at one point?