http://playstation-direct.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:40:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By the end of 1992, Sony and Nintendo had reached a deal whereby the "Sony Play Station" would continue to have a port especially for SNES games, but that Nintendo would own the game rights and receive most of the profits from the games. The SNES console would still use ... http://playstation-direct.co.uk/2008/02/29/the-history-of-the-playstation-part-3/ Sony was also planning at that stage to develop another Sony-branded console that was Nintendo compatible, but this one would be more like a home entertainment system that would be able play both Super Nintendo cartridges and the new Sony designed CD format. This was the plan, however, when Hiroshi Yamauchi ... http://playstation-direct.co.uk/2008/02/29/the-history-of-the-playstation-part-2/ 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 ... http://playstation-direct.co.uk/2008/02/29/the-history-of-the-playstation-part-1/ Already on the market for 11 years, PlayStation is definitely one of the biggest success stories of the video game industry.  Production came to an end on March 23 in 2006. The PlayStation had a number of different variants throughout its production run.  Each variant included a change in the part ... http://playstation-direct.co.uk/2008/02/29/sony-playstation-production-run-and-variants/ It seems that every successful game and console will have some fans that will try to copy and pirate it. A number of hacked units were sold on the second-hand game market and proved to be popular because they were able to run multi-regional games as well as CD-R copies of ... http://playstation-direct.co.uk/2008/02/29/sony-playstation-hacks-and-chipped-consoles/ The PlayStation 3 sports two additional USB ports, 3 Gigabit ethernet ports and 2 HDMI ports.  Sony unveiled the PS 3 to the world in May, 2005, during the 2005 E3 conference. They did not present a functional version of the console at the 2005 Tokyo Game Show, although they did ... http://playstation-direct.co.uk/2008/02/29/playstation-3-part-2/ The PlayStation 3 was officially marketed in capitals as the PLAYSTATION 3 and was commonly abbreviated as PS3.  This console is the third home video console made by Sony Computer Entertainment and it was the successor to the PlayStation 2 in the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3’s main competitors are ... http://playstation-direct.co.uk/2008/02/29/playstation-3-part-1/ Because PS 2s were so scarce in 2000 some consumers resorted to buying the consoles over the Internet.  People with connections bought them in bulk and then sold them on auction websites such as Bidorbuy or Ebay.  Some people were willing to pay more than a thousand dollars for a ... http://playstation-direct.co.uk/2008/02/29/playstation-2-part-2/ Sony PlayStation 1’s successor was the PlayStation 2 or PS2, which is well-made and backward compatible with its predecessor. This means that it can play almost all PlayStation games. This was made possible by embedding important PS 1 parts inside the PlayStation 2 console design.  This beat the PS emulators because ... http://playstation-direct.co.uk/2008/02/29/playstation-2-part-1/ The PS one (also called the PlayStation 1, PS1 or PSOne) was launched in July 2000. Sony redesigned this console and made it smaller than the original PlayStation video game console. It outsold all other consoles on the market; including Sony's own new PlayStation 2, for the remainder of ... http://playstation-direct.co.uk/2008/02/29/ps-one/