Sony came twenty years ago with the first PlayStation game console. Sony belongs with Nintendo and Microsoft is one of the leading manufacturers of gaming consoles and brought in that twenty years, four different editions of the consoles.
The first PlayStation came on december 3, 1994 on the Japanese market, Wednesday, exactly twenty years ago. The PS1 was equipped with a mips processor and thanks to the fact that the console cheap cd-roms are used as storage media could games are cheaper than the cartridges of Nintendo. Also the DualShock controller, which Sony later put on the market, fell to a lot of gamers in the taste.
Until 2006, when the production of the console altogether, sold Sony 104 million units of the first PlayStation. The success is probably also due to the modchips became available that allows users to pirated games could play on. With those sales numbers was the most successful console of its generation: Nintendo sold not even a third of that number from his Nintendo 64.
The successor of that first PlayStation, the PS2, came in march 2000, for the first time on the market. The console not only had more powerful hardware on board, but could also play dvds. It was also the console backwards compatible with the PS1, and the PlayStation 2 was the first PlayStation console that playing online games may be made, by the arrival of an ethernet connection. Eventually grew the PS2 the best selling console ever, with over 158 million copies sold. Sony stopped production of the PS2 in 2012.
During the E3 in 2005 showed Sony the PlayStation 3 for the first time, followed by the beginning of the sale a year later. The console had a built in hard drive and the PS3 was able to download games and movies from blu-ray to play. Sony used moreover, the striking Cell-processor, a 64bit PowerPC chip with multiple-core chip. Initially, developers struggled to games to optimize for the Cell-cpu’s, but in the course of the years, the games better. Also did the PS3 relatively well: up to now there are more than 82 million units sold, and the console is still available.
The PlayStation 4 is the newest console from Sony. The console came a little more than a year ago. Just like Microsoft with the Xbox One chose Sony for x86 hardware. This processor architecture allows developers easier to develop games. Just like the PS3 games are on blu-ray media, but increasingly can games also online be purchased. Developed Sony since 2006, the PlayStation Network, a service that also online multiplay.
In addition to the four PlayStation consoles, Sony is also responsible for two handhelds. The first is the PlayStation Portable, a portable game console from 2004 which games on obscure umd-discs were shipped. The successor of the PSP, the PlayStation Vita, was released in late 2011 in Japan on the market. The handheld has a touchscreen, two cameras, and features bluetooth.
Sony said previously that it expects the PS4 has a lifespan of at least 10 years would have, while the PS3 platform is still operated. In addition, the manufacturer opportunities in the market for streaming gamingdiensten. Developed the company’s PlayStation Now. Also virtual reality is, according to Sony a gamechanger. With its Project Morpheus glasses hopes Sony a wearable in your hands that it can take against hardware like the Oculus Rift.
PS4 with appearance of original PlayStation