Unreleased Nintendo PlayStation had a space shooter game in development

Shuhei Yoshida, former president of SIE Worldwide Studios for Sony Interactive Entertainment, has shared details about a cancelled game for the Nintendo PlayStation that never made it to market.

While this is well documented at this point, Sony was once working on an add-on for the SNES which would have accepted CDs. However, Nintendo later pivoted and ended up working with Philips while Sony would go on to create the PlayStation.

Now we get to hear a bit about a game that was once in development for the Nintendo PlayStation, which was a space shooter. Yoshida shared the following in an interview with MinnMax:

“It was very fun. Everybody who joined Ken (Kutaragi)’s team around that time, the first thing they showed us was the Nintendo Sony PlayStation, like a prototype already working. And they had almost finished a game on it and I got to play the game on the system.

It was like a shooter thing. You remember the SEGA CD system, there’s an amazing great game by Game Arts [Silpheed]. The space shooter but all the assets were streamed from the CD, so lots of assets coming in. So same kind of idea. 2D or 2.5D, something like that. Because assets were streamed, it looked more richer graphics than the standard of the time.”

Yoshida didn’t share any further details beyond this. He was asked about who developed the game, but unfortunately, he couldn’t recall given how long it’s been.

Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden said that Kutaragi was left “proverbially standing at the altar” when Nintendo pulled out of its partnership with Sony. Read about that here.