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“I remember the PlayStation idea came from Ken Kutaragi himself,” explains Yoshida.

“He named it because people use [a] computer and call it [a] workstation.”

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“The US people didn’t like it,” Yoshida admits, laughing.

“I remember US people [said], ‘Well, PlayStation sounds very kiddy childish.'”

More than three decades have passed since then, and PlayStation is going as strong as ever.

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