What company did Sony originally partner with to create a gaming console?

The PlayStation brand wasn't supposed to exist, but corporate greed, betrayal, and hubris created one of the greatest gaming empires of the last 30 years. Nintendo's Super NES was the hottest console in town, and it was looking to continue that domination with a new version that would use the new Super Discs while still being backward compatible with Nintendo's own cartridges. Sony built hundreds of prototypes, and at the 1991 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago they announced their revolutionary partnership. Except there was no partnership, at least not anymore. Sony and Nintendo had been fighting over licensing and profit sharing, so Nintendo secretly sent some executives to talk with Sony's rival, Philips. That was the partnership Nintendo announced at CES, which completely pulled the rug out from under Sony's feet. But now Sony engineer Ken Kutaragi was out for vengeance. He took the masterclass in console manufacturing he got from Nintendo and led Sony's effort to enter the console wars on its own. In 1994, the PlayStation was announced, Kutaragi became known as "The Father of the PlayStation," and Nintendo had unintentionally created what would become its biggest rival. Oh, and the device it ended up shipping with Philips? A total commercial failure.