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History of the Playstation

By banjokoayo
  • Sony partners with Nintendo to create CD drive for a Nintendo Console

    Sony partners with Nintendo to create CD drive for a Nintendo Console

    They fell out because of Nintendo's fear of Sony becoming competition.
  • Period: to

    Playstation Timeline

  • Sony release Playstation 1 just in time for Christmas

    Sony release Playstation 1 just in time for Christmas

  • Playstation 1 released in the U.S.

    Playstation 1 released in the U.S.

    Also Playstation 1 reaches just over a million sales
  • PS1 has sold over 40 million consoles

    PS1 has sold over 40 million consoles

    In total that is $8.3 billion
  • THE PS2 IS RELEASED!!!!

    THE PS2 IS RELEASED!!!!

  • PS2 drives Sega out of Console Business

    PS2 drives Sega out of Console Business

    PS2 sales reached 80 million. Sega Dreamcast sales dwindles. Sega leaves console business. Nintendo is Sony's only competition
  • Microsoft launches the Xbox

    Microsoft launches the Xbox

    This means more competition for the PS2
  • By the end of 2003 every 1 in 10 people in the UK had a PS console

    By the end of 2003 every 1 in 10 people in the UK had a PS console

  • The PSP is released

    The PSP is released

  • PS2 becomes the quickest to reach 100,000,000 console sales

    PS2 becomes the quickest to reach 100,000,000 console sales

    The PS1 was first
  • PS3 IS LAUNCHED!!!

    PS3 IS LAUNCHED!!!

    The XBOX 360 came out a year before giving them a yearlong headstart
  • Due to it's expensive price the sales of the PS3 lowered and the PS2 outsold it

    Due to it's expensive price the sales of the PS3 lowered and the PS2 outsold it

    The PS3 is now fourth behind the XBOX 360, the PS2 and the Wii
  • Ps3 sold it's tenth million unit

    Ps3 sold it's tenth million unit

    The PS2 sold double that in that time frame
  • PS4 is released

    PS4 is released