Ironically, had the SNES PlayStation become a solid reality it could have put Sony out of the console business for good. If Nintendo hadn't pulled out at the last minute, the SNES PlayStation would have hit the market and presumably gone the same way as Sega and NEC's CD-based challengers. The stand-alone SNES PlayStation was pitched more as a Sony product than a Nintendo one, and Nintendo would have been able to walk away from the system without too much trouble. Sony would have been left shouldering the blame, and one can speculate that the time spent trying to turn the console into a success would have given the company little room to work on any kind of 32-bit successor. Sony would have missed the start of the 32-bit revolution, leaving Sega and Nintendo to continue their war of dominance unhindered. It is widely reported that it was only the desire for revenge which convinced Sony boss Norio Ohga to allow Kutaragi to continue with development of the 32-bit version of the console. Had the SNES PlayStation made it to store shelves and flopped, Ohga and the rest of the Sony board would have almost certainly abandoned any ambitions the company had of entering the gaming market on its own.