David Rosenthal: belief

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…$399, that is the Sega Saturn price point. Available today, May 11th, 1995. Kalinske finishes his speech. He walks off stage, they usher everybody out of the room, they turn it over, and they get ready for the next keynote of the day, which is going to be Sony. Sony keynote starts a couple hours later, Olaf Olafsson, who's the president and head of all of Sony America, not just the PlayStation, all of Sony's businesses, gets on stage, and he starts giving his presentation. He says that the PlayStation will be released in the US on September 9th, 1995. Sega's like, great, they're not moving it up, we're going to beat them to the punch, we're live today, we got a four-month head start, let's go. Then Olaf invites the new head of Sony Computer Entertainment America, one Steve Race formerly of Sega of America, up to the podium to give a "brief presentation". He walks slowly up to the podium. He's got a large stack of notes. He places them down on the lectern, shuffles them around, waits a beat, he's ready to give his big speech. He looks up, he looks at the audience, and he says, $299. Then he picks up his notes, and he walks off stage. Most people in the industry, I think, would agree that this is the greatest moment in all of video game industry history. Right, industry announcement type things.…

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