It's hard to think of a more perfect brand name for a video game console than PlayStation.
Not only has it become an iconic part of the video game lexicon, it summarises the core function of Sony's line of systems brilliantly: a device which enables and promotes play.
However, the console was very nearly called something else. While the "Play Station" brand pre-dates the 32-bit system (it was the name given to the ill-fated SNES CD add-on), it would appear that at one point, Sony was considering a slightly different moniker for its game-changing home console.
Speaking to Simon Parkin on the always-brilliant My Perfect Console podcast, former Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president Chris Deering revealed that the original name for the machine was actually "Power Station".
Deering explains that there were trademark issues in "some parts of the world" which meant that the name "was not available", and so Ken Kutaragi made an "autocratic decision that it was going to be PlayStation."
Interestingly, Deering says that there was "a bit of pushback from some of the marketing people", but he liked the name. Ultimately, though, it sounds like a trademark issue was the only reason we got the Sony PlayStation and not the Sony Power Station.