Portal:Sony PlayStation/Intro
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The PlayStation is combined the world's most sold video game console brand. Sony Computer Entertainment released the PlayStation in 1995, PlayStation 2 in 2000, PlayStation Portable in 2004, and PlayStation 3 in 2006.
Sony's first foray into the video game market, the PlayStation (codenamed PSX during development, currently called PSone), was initially designed as an add-on for Nintendo's Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom) video game console as an answer to Sega's Sega CD. When the prospect of releasing the system as an add-on dissolved, Sony transformed it into the PlayStation video game console. Sony's follow-up console, the PlayStation 2 (PS2), currently the world's best selling console, was released in Japan on March 4, 2000 and in North America on October 26, 2000. The PSP or PlayStation Portable is a handheld game console released and manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment, as a foray into the handheld gaming market which was totally dominated by Nintendo. Though it did have as much as of an impact as the PlayStation, the PSP is noted as being the most successful competitor to Nintendo in the handheld market. The newest console released in the PlayStation series, as well as Sony's entry in the seventh-generation of consoles, is the PlayStation 3 (PS3), which launched in November 2006. It uses a unique processing architecture called the Cell microprocessor, a new technology developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. The graphics processing unit, the RSX 'Reality Synthesizer', was co-developed by NVIDIA and Sony. So far, it is behind its competitors, the Xbox 360 and Wii in terms of sales.
