A VERY Brief History of Playstation

The PlayStation video gaming franchise, you could say it was a franchise started almost on accident.  But no one is complaining that it happened. This multibillion dollar franchise has provided gamers with some of the best known games and memorable ideas to ever happen.  This is the VERY Brief history of PlayStation.

PlayStation began with the partnership of Sony and Nintendo to make a product called the “Super Disc” which would be an attachable accessory for the Super Nintendo that would make it so the Super Nintendo could play CD-ROMs on it which would be a large improvement on the bulky Super Nintendo cartridges. Sony decided that it didn’t like the partnership and so the two companies parted ways. Sony however, developed a console in 1992 that integrated the original “Super Disc” idea with their own ideas, creating the original PlayStation. 200 consoles were created but were not released to the public.  A couple years later Sony came out with the PSX, which played CD-ROM games only. Playstation had taken its first step to becoming a mega franchise.

The Playstation one was created in 2000 followed later in the year by the PlayStation 2, which the PlayStation 2 to this day is the best selling console ever. However it did not start out that way. The year it was released the PlayStation 1s were selling better than the PlayStation 2s, not because people thought that they were better but because the PlayStation 2 simply did not have enough consoles to sell. They grossly underestimated the demand for the PlayStation 2. Causing a major scarcity of the console in markets everywhere. The PlayStation 2 is best known for its ability to play games from the PlayStation 1, which allowed the owners of a PlayStation 1 to enjoy all of their favorite PlayStation 1 games and still get rid of their older PlayStation.

In more recent years the PSP (or PlayStation Portable), the hand held PlayStation, allowed fans to play their favorite PlayStation games on the go. It was released in 2005 and still has not been able to have more sales then Nintendo’s Nintendo DS. The PlayStation 3 eventually came out in 2006, harnessing the power of Blu-Ray technology to make for amazing graphics and massive amounts of storage space. Currently

However, with a lagging game base and a high price tag, the PS3 has sold fewer units than any previous Sony gaming system, and the PlayStation 2 remains the most popular of all. The PS3 has barely sold 24 million worldwide. Critics say that while the system is capable of great technological advances, it's difficult to develop for and not well received by consumers.