PlayStation

"PS1" redirects here. It is not to be confused with PlayStation Vita.

The PlayStation (often known as the PS1 or the PSX) is a video game console made by Sony released in December 1994. At the time, it was competing against the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Saturn. PlayStation games were stored on CDs. The controllers that were first released with the console had no analog joysticks on them, but analog joysticks and a vibration feature were added to later controllers.

PlayStation

The original grey PS1 and the slimmer white PS One below
Product type	Video game console Handheld game console
Owner	Sony Computer Entertainment
Country	Minami-Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Introduced	PlayStation (PS1) (original grey model pictured) JP: 3 December 1994 (3 December 1994)[1] NA: 9 September 1995 (9 September 1995)[2] EU: 29 September 1995 (29 September 1995)[3] AU: 15 November 1995 (15 November 1995)[4] ZA: November 1996 (November 1996)[5] PS One (slim white version pictured) JP: 7 July 2000 (7 July 2000) NA: 19 September 2000 (19 September 2000) EU: 29 September 2000 (29 September 2000) IND: 24 January 2002 (24 January 2002)[6]
Discontinued	23 March 2006
Markets	Worldwide
Registered as a trademark in	Worldwide
Website	Japan United States Europe Canada

A slimmer version of the console called the PS One was released in 2000. It was white instead of grey.

It was succeeded by the PlayStation 2 in March 2000 and was discontinued on March 23, 2006 (eight months before the PlayStation 3 was released).

History

The PlayStation was created by Ken Kutaragi, a Sony executive who managed a engineering division and was later nicknamed "the Father of the PlayStation". ^[7] The PlayStation was released in 1994 in Japan and 1995 in North America and Europe

Sales

The PlayStation and the PSOne have sold over 120 million consoles.^[8]

Peripherals

PocketStation

The PocketStation was a very small games console released as a peripheral (an extra accessory) for the PlayStation. It had a clock, an LCD display and four buttons. It could be used as a memory card.^[9] It wasn't released in the United States, because it did not sell well.^[10]

References

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2. "Business Development/North America". Tokyo: Sony Computer Entertainment. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
3. "Business Development/Europe". Tokyo: Sony Computer Entertainment. Archived from the original on 22 April 2004. Retrieved 19 December 2007.
4. Healey, Nic (27 November 2013). "Evolution of the PlayStation console". CNET. Indian Land: Red Ventures. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
5. "Archived copy". www.playstation-europe.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 1998. Retrieved 21 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. "Sony Playstation Touches Base in India". Business Standard India. 24 January 2002.
7. Ashcraft, Brian (19 February 2010). "What's The Father of the PlayStation Doing These Days?". Kotaku. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
8. "Cumulative Production Shipments of Hardware(until March 2007)". Sony. Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 30 September 2014. Archived from the original Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
9. "PocketStation". SCEE. 8 October 1998. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
10. "PocketStation Slips Indefinitely". IGN. 13 May 1999. Retrieved 30 September 2014.