Neither pieces of hardware ever made it into full production, with Nintendo backing out of the deal in the most explosive way imaginable - it announced that it would be ditching Sony and partnering with Philips at the same '91 CES event where Sony publicly unveiled the proposed SNES PlayStation. The effect was complete and utter humiliation for the veteran manufacturer - possibly the intention of wily Nintendo boss Hiroshi Yamauchi. Sony would retreat to lick it wounds and return shortly afterwards with a reinvented, super-powerful 32-bit console which would turn the games industry on its head. Nintendo had turned a valuable ally into a bitter adversary, and changed the course of gaming history forever.