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1994 5th generation video game console by Sony Interactive Entertainment

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The PlayStation is a video game console released by Sony in 1994 that marked the fifth generation of gaming technology. It became one of the most influential gaming systems ever made, helping to establish Sony as a major player in the video game industry and popularizing CD-based games over older cartridge formats.

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Official website: playstation.com
Image: PSX-Console-wController.jpg

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Commons category: PlayStation
Commons gallery: PlayStation
publication date: 1994-12-03
price: 299
discontinuation date: 2006-03-23
title: Pureisutēshon
social media followers: 147000
RAM capacity: 2
units sold: 102400000
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The PlayStation (codenamed PSX, abbreviated as PS, and retronymically PS1 or PS one) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released in Japan on 3 December 1994, followed by North America on 9 September 1995, Europe on 29 September 1995, and other regions following thereafter. As a fifth-generation console, the PlayStation primarily competed with the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Saturn.

Sony began developing the PlayStation after a failed venture with Nintendo to create a CD-ROM peripheral for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in the early 1990s. The console was primarily designed by Ken Kutaragi and Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan, while additional development was outsourced in the United Kingdom. An emphasis on 3D polygon graphics was placed at the forefront of the console's design. PlayStation game production was designed to be streamlined and inclusive, enticing the support of many third party developers.