- "Ax worked out technology-transfer deals with some of the big corporations. They have to keep it slow because if you just dump a hundred years of technological advances overnight the stock market goes nuts. It worked out okay, though. The Andalites can definitely teach us a lot about computer architecture. But it was Microsoft and Sony and Adobe and Nintendo that came up with the killer apps."
- ―Marco[src]
Sony Group Corporation, commonly referred to simply as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate that released products such as the Walkman and the PlayStation. Following the end of the Yeerk War, Microsoft was given access to Andalite technology due to technology transfer deals overseen by Ax, which Microsoft used to improve their products.
History
Sony was a company that produced the Walkman, which Cassie owned,[1] as well as the PlayStation, which Marco owned.[2] By 2001,[note 1] Sony had formed a technology transfer deal with the Andalites overseen by Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, where Sony received Andalite technology and used them to create high-powered applications.[3]
Trivia
- Marco is a fan of Sony's PlayStation.
- In real life, the video game Animorphs: Shattered Reality was produced and released for Sony's PlayStation.
Notes
- ↑ This occurs during the 'One Year Later' time-skip of #54: The Beginning, set one year after the war ended, which was in 2000.