Sony By Warriar May 9, 1946 Sony is created Sony Sony was first formed Jun 18, 1950 Soni-tape is released The soni-tape was released a few months after the company is formed Jan 4, 1958 Name was changed to Sony Corporation Feb 24, 1960 Sony moves to other countries Sony had spread over to America. Oct 24, 1968 Sony trinitron is introduced May 7, 1975 Sony's Betamax cassete was released Nov 1, 1982 betacam videotape was released Apr 14, 1983 3.5 inch floppy disc was introduced Nov 14, 1983 home computer system was released May 18, 1991 Playstation was announced at Consumer Electronics Sep 14, 1993 Sony minidisk was announced to the publc Dec 2, 1993 SSDS was released Dec 14, 1994 Playstaion hit shelves Feb 14, 1998 memory card and flash drive were relased Mar 14, 2001 playstation 2 hit shelves Dec 13, 2005 UMD discs were released along with PSP Dec 14, 2005 Sony went portable. PSP was released Nov 14, 2006 PS3 hit shelves May 14, 2009 Playstation move announced Sep 17, 2010 playstation move was released Period: May 9, 2012 to May 10, 2012 Sony