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Sony Planned A PSOne "Facebook", PS2 "YouTube"

Former Sony Entertainment President Chris Deering has recently dished out two pieces of fascinating gossip about Sony development for those interested in the "woulda, coulda, shoulda" points in the company's history. The first such program was a social networking platform for the PSOne ala Facebook or MySpace.

We had a secret test program in Europe back in 1997 on PSOne, running a black and white text-based, moderator-led community chat group with a special box called 'Net-Station' that hooked up PCs to the TV. Nick Parker ran it. The project codename was 'Moccasin 5'. I have no idea where it came from.
The second was a YouTube-esque video service for the PS2. More »

10:40 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Mark Wilson
5,965 views, 73 comments

Latest by Feba: >It just goes to show, success isn't just about having a great idea or the ability to pull >it off. In many ways, timing really is everything. No. Actually, it shows it's about having the ability to pull it off. Did more »