In the world today, the PlayStation has defined how we are allowed to play action, adventure, and even simulation games. The PlayStation is probable the one of game consoles that offers everything for both gamers and typical people. It allows users to play or watch from games, movies/shows, and even browse the internet. In order to understand how the PlayStation is so excellent, we will need to know the history of the consoles, and what makes it perform at the highest level. Overall PlayStation has offered more options for people to have a more entertaining time. Before a device or product becomes hugely popular and/or successful it goes through a process over time. When the first PlayStation was introduced by Sony, it was originally a system both develop by Nintendo and Sony called CD-ROM attachment, also called Super Disc. Due to various contractual and licensing problems, the system eventual did not release. Instead, Sony decided to use the ideas and the technologies used in the system and made a modified version called Play Station. It was introduced in 1995 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Chicago (Griffith 1). The Play Station could allow audio, video and computer data to accessed, such as music and video games by CD-ROM. The very first weekend the Play Station was released, it sold more than 100,000 units. In the first six months, over a million systems were sold (Sony 1). Soon later, Sony had designed a new and improved version called the PlayStation X, which stopped the Super Nintendo cartridge port and focused mainly on video games. The component internals inside were updated to allow a more amusing and active gaming experience. Shortly after its release in Japan in December of 1994, and in the United States and Europe in September of 1995, it became the most popular systems available for sale. For years PlayStation was the leading console and didn’t have much competition until the sixth generation consoles arrived. This new generation console was the Sega Dreamcast and was the first console to have an integrated Web browser. Sega’s success looked outstanding with sales of 500,000 units sold in just two weeks at the start of North America. While the Dreamcast became very interesting, it wasn’t enough. Soon after Sony would announce the PlayStation 2 at the 1999 Tokyo Game Show. Shortly after Dreamcast sales went down and Sega stopped production on March 30, 2001. But, refurbished Dreamcast machines continued to sell in Japan until 2007. The PlayStation had sales reaching from 150 million to 155 million units, sold after its initial release in November 2000. However the PS2 had many issues, it was hard to find, disc-read errors so bad it got sued and even suffered due to piracy. But, it had some perks that made it unique; it could play DVDs (movies) and even music. From, these issues Sony dropped the price down to $199, equaling the GameCube. Shortly after a year, Microsoft soon revealed their first game console, the Xbox which arrived in 2001. The Xbox had similar features to the PS2 like online gameplay that offered a more enjoyable experience. After a couple of years later, Sony released a new and improved PS2 that was slimmer, which would be much more portable. Sony would announce the PS2 to be discontinued world in January 2013, about 13 years after its release (Griffith 3). As time passed, the PS2 became very popular and successful thought out its years. As game consoles or products are popular and successful, there is a demand of more new improved console like the PlayStation 3. By being one of the seventh-gen consoles, it had competition with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 released in 2005. It provided users with Xbox Live for online gaming, which you had to pay for. Shortly after the Xbox 360, Sony introduced the PlayStation 3 at CES in 2005. The system introduced to technology, like adding Sony’s Blu-ray video format that to added a more amusing experience. It also was the first console to support full high-definition video at 1080p. The PS3 provided users with more perks such as, the Internet browser and movies/shows apps. What
