Rumour Buster: No, Rare Didn’t Almost Make Games For The PlayStation During The N64 Era

There may well have been some talk amongst Rare staff about working on the PlayStation – after all, it was the machine that offered the largest potential audience – but as Mayles says, Rare's strength was that it could push the N64 hardware to new limits and its titles sold very well on that console as a result. While shifting focus to PlayStation might have made sense on one level, the competition on that console could well have drowned out Rare's games – and there would have been the additional issue of the developers having to quickly get to grips with a new platform.