Sony The launch of the PlayStation 4 product was held at 7:00 this morning (Beijing time), which announced the heavyweight product PlayStation 4 and showed the latest achievements of the developers. In fact, it is very interesting that the birth of PlayStation was quite dramatic. 1991 CES At the Consumer Electronics Show, Sony announced that it had reached an agreement with Nintendo to manufacture a CD based game drive for the latter's SNES game console, but Nintendo unilaterally announced the next day that it would choose Philips of the Netherlands to manufacture this accessory. In anger, Sony decided to develop its own game console products and vowed to defeat Nintendo, so PlayStation came into being.

So far, about 400 million PlayStation branded hardware including PS, PS2, PS3, PSP, PSV, etc. have been sold worldwide, and more than 2 billion copies of corresponding software (games) have been sold. In the United States alone, the sales of PlayStation brand hardware earned Sony $63 billion, accounting for 40% of the total domestic game sales revenue. Today, I will review the history of PlayStation brand products with you.

PlayStation

PlayStation (PS for short) is a home video game console launched by Sony's Sony Sony Computer Entertainment SCEI on December 3, 1994. At that time, SEGA Saturn of Sega and Nintendo 64 of Nintendo competed with PlayStation. Through the strategy of winning over third-party game manufacturers, PlayStation finally won the business war with an absolute advantage in the number of game software.

Splendor of Sony games, PS host. Do you still remember the Biochemical Crisis at that time?

PSone

PSone is a game console released by Sony Corporation of Japan on September 14, 2000, which is a miniaturized version of PlayStation. On the basis of PlayStation, it has carried out transformation such as external power supply, so that the volume of the host is only 1/3 of the original size. PSone can also be connected to an external LCD (to be purchased separately), so that with the in car power supply, games can be played in the car. In addition, Sony has also released a component called Mobile Power One, which can provide a half to three hours of power for the PSone host, so that the PSone can be used as a handheld computer.

PSone can be used as a handheld computer

PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2， PS2 for short is Sony's new force computer entertainment console, a home 128 bit game console launched on March 4, 2000. On the day of its launch in Japan, it caused a rush to buy. In 2004, it launched the ultra-thin PS2 host (named PlayStation Two, compared with the MINI PS PlayStation One) in the world. By November 29, 2005, it had sold more than 110 million units worldwide. With the advanced performance of PS2, Sony once again defeated Sega's DC host and Microsoft's XBOX, and won the championship of TV game platform for the second time. Although the XBOX360, PS3, WII and other sub era hosts have been available for some time, the PS2 is still far ahead in terms of hardware and game sales alone. If we really want to catch up with and surpass the glory of PS2, I'm afraid it will not be easy.

PS2 ushers in a new era in the video game industry

PlayStation Portable

PlayStation Portable (PSP for short) is a new multifunctional handheld game machine developed by SONY. There are two specifications. One is the old PSP launched at the end of 2004, which is large and heavy. One is the new PSP launched on September 20, 2007, which is lighter and thinner and corresponds to the TV output. It adopts 4.3 "16:9 ratio, full backlight Sharp ASV ultra wide viewable TFT LCD screen, with a screen size of 480 * 272 pixels, bright colors and first-class display effect; It has the 3D polygon drawing ability between PS and PS2, and the corresponding surface NURBS modeling is a function that PS2 does not have. The game screen has reached a new height of handheld games; It can play music files such as MPEG4 video files, ATRAC format and MP3 format; PCM audio source is used, which corresponds to 3D surround sound and has a wide range of sound quality. The newly developed "UMD" disc with a diameter of 6cm is used as the game and audio and video media. It is equipped with USB interface and memory stick DUO memory stick slot. It supports wireless online function and hot spot connection to the Internet. It has huge potential for expansion. It is a heavyweight product that Sony has positioned as "WALKMAN of the 21st century". To sum up, in fact, PSP is not only a game console, but also a comprehensive handheld multimedia entertainment terminal device. Due to SONY's low-cost "dumping" strategy, PSP has become the most cost-effective handheld multimedia terminal.

Although the PSP sells well, the system is cracked, resulting in SONY not receiving any revenue

PlayStation 3

PlayStation 3 is a next-generation PlayStation game console (PS3 for short) developed by Sony's Sony Computer Entertainment SCEI, which was released at the E3 Video Game Show in mid May 2005. The detailed specification of PlayStation 3 is to use the "Cell" CPU jointly developed by SCE, Toshiba and IBM. "Cell" is a high-performance processor, and its biggest feature is the network distributed computing function called "Cell computing". The cell embedded in the PS3 can connect home servers, televisions, etc. into a part of the bit network. It is like grid computing, which disperses and processes instructions in real time. Through the optical fiber network, "Cell" can be connected with other "Cells" to become the computing power comparable to supercomputers. The PS3 will be compatible with the Blu ray Disc (BD-ROM, or Blu ray DVD) specification, and also backward compatible with the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM game discs produced by PlayStation and PlayStation 2. It can be said that the PS3 is the most powerful host at present. Sony has high expectations for this host and hopes that the glory of the PS2 can continue.

The gorgeous PS3, but unfortunately lost to the Wii and XBOX360 in the same period

PlayStation VITA

PlayStation VITA， It is called PSVITA or PSV for short. It is a new generation of handheld computer announced by Sony on January 27, 2011. Its development code is "NGP", and its specific sales information was announced at the 2011 E3 Game Show. It has been officially launched on December 17, 2011. The shape of the PSV continues the style of the previous generation PSP. The screen is designed in the middle, and the direction keys on both sides and the regular keys form a handle. PSV has changed the feel of the rocker, and added the design of the right rocker, giving up the UMD disc, and replaced it with a new form of cassette, with a new operating system built in, three-axis accelerometer, three-axis gyroscope, three-axis electronic compass and other sensors, using front and rear double-sided touch operation. The front is a 5-inch OLED capacitive screen with a resolution of 960x544, and the rear panel is a multi-point touch panel (capacitive), Equipped with a four core processor based on ARM Cortex A9 architecture, the GPU is a four core PowerVR SGX 543 MP4+, and the PSV has four colors: black, white, blue, red.

PSVita can use 3G/WiFi to access the Internet, voice and video chat, listen to music and watch movies, etc., almost covering all current forms of handheld entertainment

PlayStation 4

PlayStation 4 is called PS 4 for short. Sony today released the new generation of game console Playstation 4 in New York, USA. The new host enhances social functions and supports cloud technology, but Sony has not shown the true face of this product. This device will be officially launched in the Christmas shopping season of 2013. It is reported that PlayStation 4 will be equipped with an X86 processor, a more powerful GPU, 8GB of memory, a new handle called "DualShock 4", and a touch control board on the front. In addition to the hardware update, the main feature of the new PlayStation 4 is its support for social networking and interaction. Users can use Gaikai and PS store to find any content you want on the network at any time, and can share freely through the share button on the handle.

At today's press conference, Sony didn't show the true face of this product, just a logo

Learn more about new cool devices, stay tuned

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