The PlayStation is a game console that was released by Sony Computer Entertainment back in December 1994.
The PlayStation was the first of its type and because of its popularity there has been many successors and similar consoles produced. After the PlayStation came the Net Yaroze, a unique black PlayStation with instructions and tools on how to programme PlayStation applications and games. After that Sony released the PS one that was slightly smaller than the PlayStation and then the PocketStation that was a handheld game.
It was not long before PlayStation 2 was launched and after that a revised and more slim-line PlayStation 2. After that Sony launched the PlayStation portable, the PSX in Japan and finally (up to date) the PlayStation 3. The PlayStation is the first video game console that ever sold more than one hundred million units.
Game Over is a book written by David Scheff that covers gaming console history. He said the PlayStation was first conceptualised in 1986 but there were problems as the technology was not yet evolved enough. The game’s rewritable magnetic nature made it too easy to erase everything and the discs were too open to piracy.
The CD-ROM/XA console was simultaneously developed by Phillips and Sony. Nintendo approached Sony and asked them to develop a type of CD-ROM add-on that was called the “SNES-CD”. Sony agreed and the development began. Nintendo chose to work with Sony because of Ken Kutaragi, also known as “The Father of the PlayStation”.
