Former SIE CEO and "the father of the PlayStation" Ken Kutaragi says that no one, not even Sony, believed the PS1 would be a success

And despite all 102.49 million of those sales, before the console actually launched, according to Ken Kutaragi, the former Sony SIE CEO who is also known as “the father of the PlayStation”, Sony didn’t actually have all that much faith in it, and neither did anyone else.

It turns out that Sony was not particularly confident in the original PlayStation doing all that well.

As it stands, the original PlayStation is the sixth best selling console of all time.