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Issy van der Velde

As the PS1 turns 30 years old, former PlayStation chief reveals he knew nothing about making games when joining the team but was assured "none of us do either"

PlayStation.

PlayStation is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the original console, and it turns out its early team didn't have much of a clue what they were doing at first.

In an interview with Eurogamer, former Sony Interactive Entertainment America president Shawn Layden reminisces about the early days of the company. "I joined PlayStation specifically in '96 when they were a year into it," he says. "They'd already launched in North America and in Japan."

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