Wait gamepass includes crunchyroll?
To be precise, from Nov. 2021 to Feb. 2022 -it was a time limited thing no longer active- GP Ultimate (not the normal GP) gave you 75 days long Crunchyroll premium trial.
The normal users from any platform like PS, PC, mobile, etc have a 14 days long Crunchyroll premium trial.
Most of the PS team working on the hardware were from the electronics team. Some of them were even former employees working of Nintendo, Sega, and Toshiba.
SMJE are just there to lisence and redistribute.
Think of it as a distributor and a workhouse.
No, they were from Sony Music.
Sony Imagesoft Inc, who made SNES games before PS, was a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Particularly back then a subsidiary of the Japanese CBS/Sony Group team. Back then was named CSG Imagesoft Inc. Some of these games were published in Japan under the Epic/Sony Records label. Later they did open their western subsidiary of Imagesoft, Sony Electronic Publishing and rebranded Sony Imagesoft as its subsidiary.
Just before the release of PS1, Sony Computer Entertainment was created by Sony Music Entertainment Japan in 1993. That year they acquired Psygnosis, who became part of SCE. Just after the PS1 release in America, in 1995 Sony Electronic Publishing and its subsidiary Imagesoft were merged into SCEA and part of it became 989 Studios.
The Sony Music team that created SCE and the PS1 hardware was Ken Kutaragi, Shigeo Maruyama (CEO of Sony Music back then), Akira Sato and Terry Tokunaka. They hired other people like Phil Harrison to create that SCEI original team, in his case to hire devs.
In fact the idea from moving from cartridges to CDs was because they knew from their experience at Sony Music that to produce games in CD was way cheaper, faster and provided a higher profitability per unit, and they already had the manufacturing to mass produce them.
