When he released Sony Playstation they are no longer a newbie in the industry, never before developed for the game, not to mention the system console, but in the end the great success that the PlayStation 3D gaming display for the public destruction and A Revolution CD games. Oddly enough, it was not a contract dispute, and "PlayStation" has been of Nintendo and Super Nintendo console released them.
Facts and figures:
- Title: Sony PlayStation (aka Playstation One PSOne)
- Manufacturer: Sony Computer Entertainment
- Console video game on the hard disk (5th Generation): Type
- Release Date: 1994 (Japan), 1995 (North America and Europe)
Join the PlayStation:
In the first and second generation of video game consoles and many companies jumped on the train of the electronic console. Finally, they are already integrated products with the same parts, so why not play in the hot new way. Issued Magnavox unit first video game with Magnavox Odyssey, inspired Pong, then released RCA RCA Studio II (a copy of Pong) and even Fairchild Semiconductor Fairchild Channel F Surprisingly, Sony, was founded in 1946, not the video game system relieve their own until the mid-90s, but it was not for lack of trying.
Nintendo / Sony marriage:
After the collapse of the video game market in 1983, the industry built on the Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo, so it quickly to the dominant force in the gaming industry. In the development of the Super Nintendo (SNES), for the second time cartridge console, she signed a contract with Sony audio systems (Sony SPC700) offer processor.
It is still Nintendo to develop add-ons for the SNES, including modem short (Japan only), and Sony concentrated in the center of business and technology in 1986, she co-developed with Philips Electronics new type of CD-ROM (called CD ROM / XA). Enter the new disc allows uncompressed audio and video / graphics and data to operate simultaneously. Can a CD-ROM containing original graphics or sound, but can not run independently. By combining these three elements all games are more and more used in advance of the graphics and audio that can be accessed by all data files from a hard drive.
News in this hot new technology and leverage the existing relationship between the two, Nintendo Sony approached to start the development of CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo, with plans to the first hard drive and this Nintendo console to making. An agreement was reached in 1988 with the development of technology from Sony and Nintendo Release Expansion Station.
Unfortunately all the plans because of the problem of contracts, Nintendo to rethink the relationship causes derailed. Nintendo quietly making an agreement with the coasts Philips Electronics for SNES based on a different disk add-on and canceled the existing agreement with Sony. While this was a setback for the electronics giant, the advancement of technology decided to create and control their own unit.
Although the agreement with Phillips Nintendo did not break at the end, this does not mean that Sony is one of the end of the video game giant. Once the word, the Nintendo Sony has been using technology that is developed as part of this partnership, Nintendo is trying to stop the development of a system to follow Sony. Was in favor of the Sony case, which also found him to develop the system allows.
Even the release of the PlayStation game console and leave mainly cartridge these cartridges were very expensive to make, and it was for a long time. 3D games and full-motion video requires large files and technology, the costs placed in the cartridge, it was impossible to make a profit.
Sony has spent years developing the system unit, but it was in the game development a little too late to create a partition. Although they always put the group in November 1993, Sony Computer Entertainment, and it was expected that the system in Japan to solve in the next year, and it certainly was not enough to the console to get a full range of securities giving introduction. Fortunately, I was welcomed new kid on the block in the gaming industry with considerable support from vendors.
Computer game has already jumped on the train from the CD-ROM when publishers and game developers are already familiar with the benefits. Place CD-ROM more than floppy or tape can more audio and video files to nest at once, so that they meet the requirements for a powerful 3D rendering or video playback in full screen mode. In addition, costs only a fraction of the cost of other media, and can be produced in large quantities quickly.
Third-party publishers and developers to the rescue:
Sony was to create noble plans to one of the existing systems on the first 3D Tablet the unit of the general public, but there was a small problem. Unlike Nintendo, Sega and Atari did not even have a development studio. Typically, the manufacturer is the game console called some of the best gaming systems for each of them. This is mainly due to the keyboards are very expensive for non-gaming revenue the facility, which is not profit.
The advantages of this system in the main control unit and the possibility of a powerful disk-based, such as the PlayStation was touted these third-party publishers and developers are chomping at the bit for the development of this party, and they jumped on the moving train in droves. Partnerships allows developers to start early and can start the system with a strong series of games, with the publication of a weekly steady stream.
Finally, in 1994, was a Sony Playstation (aka PSOne) in Japan and launched in North America and Europe (S1995) 11 months later units. System was an immediate hit, quickly eclipsing the Super Nintendo and the system disk of your Sega, Sega Saturn.
A year after the release of the PlayStation Nintendo tried the majors, and his coming to the game to be the release of game console 3D, and Nintendo 64 down, but Nintendo with the shape of the cartridge, the committed inevitably led to his downfall would be prefer the same reasons, the developer for the Playstation. Without the support of a third party, and the N64 has a small library, and while some of these are securities as best games of the era, including Golden Eye 007, there were a lot just is not enough to look at the Playstation.
Computer entertainment system
When in 1985 published the NES, the term "video game" has a meaning after the flood of games of poor quality lead to a crash of the industry on the market, so I decided to Nintendo to refer to him as "entertainment system" and as part of a home entertainment system designed instead presented as a video game. Sony has a page from the same book, and returned to the PlayStation as "computer entertainment system" instead of the console. Even today, they have all the references of their systems by third party publishers and developers to computer entertainment system PlayStation, and technically they are correct.
PlayStation can (also known as Video CD) to not only play the official game discs in the system, but also later CDs with an adapter VCS, which were the predecessors of the DVD. This has not only stable, but also the system at Taher his time.
To encourage even after the release of the second system from Sony, the PlayStation 2 in 2000 and continues to support the original Sony PlayStation, and others to develop and implement the system and set up six years in the life of PS2 do.
Finally, in 2006, Sony has the production of the original PlayStation, and allow the system to the age of 12, and ends as the first unit in the sale of hundreds of millions of units.
Today PSOne term (or the first PlayStation) to expand and is now not only to make the new model, but the device and the original PlayStation. During the games optically advanced controls and in particular the PSOne player in the world 3D games and kick started the revolution CD-ROM in the gaming world.
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