PSOne Had Facebook, PS2 Had Youtube

PlayStation division worked on ‘online community’ for PSOne; ‘YouTube’-like video channel was created for PS2

Sony’s PlayStation division was tantalisingly close to spearheading the ‘online social community’ phenomenon – beating the likes of MySpace to the idea.

That’s according to former Sony Entertainment President Chris Deering, who revealed to MCV that a secret Facebook-style web networking platform was being worked on behind-the-scenes by those responsible for launching PSOne – but was canned at the last minute.

In addition, a ‘streamed PlayStation TV channel’ was also trialled for PS2 back in 2002 – four years ahead of YouTube – but was also thrown out because of a global lack of interest in broadband.

Deering unveiled the news in the first of our new ‘MCV Legends’ features (read that here), in which he describes how he achieved such success.

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