PlayStation 1
 
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Top: The "coloured" PlayStation logo
Middle: The original model with the DualShock controller Bottom: The smaller and redesigned PSone unit |
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| Developer | Sony Computer Entertainment |
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| Manufacturer | Sony |
| Product family | PlayStation |
| Type | Home video game console |
| Generation | Fifth generation |
| Release date | PlayStation PSone |
| Retail availability | 1994–2005 |
| Discontinued | 31 March 2005 |
| Units sold | 102.49 million |
| Media | CD-ROM |
| CPU | R3000 @ 33.8688 MHz |
| Memory | 2 MB RAM, 1 MB VRAM |
| Storage | Memory card |
| Sound | 16-bit, 24 channel ADPCM |
| Controller input | PlayStation Controller, Dual Analog Controller, DualShock |
| Connectivity | PlayStation Link Cable |
| Best-selling game | Gran Turismo, 10.85 million shipped |
| Successor | PlayStation 2 |
The PlayStation (officially abbreviated to PS, and commonly known as the PS1 or PSX) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The console was released on 3 December 1994 in Japan, 9 September 1995 in North America, 29 September 1995 in Europe, and for 15 November 1995 in Australia. The console was the first of the PlayStation lineup of home video game consoles. It primarily competed with the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Saturn as part of the fifth generation of video game consoles.
The PlayStation is the first "computer entertainment platform" to ship 100 million units, which it had reached 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch. In 2000, a redesigned, slim version called the PSone was released, replacing the original grey console and named appropriately to avoid confusion with its successor, the PlayStation 2.
In 1999, Sony announced the successor to the PlayStation, the PlayStation 2, which is backwards compatible with the PlayStation's DualShock controller and games, and launched the console in 2000. The last PSone units were sold in winter 2004 before it was officially discontinued in March 2005, for a total of 102 million units shipped since its launch 10 years earlier. Games for the PlayStation continued to sell until Sony ceased production of PlayStation games on 23 March 2006 – over 11 years after it had been released, and less than a year before the debut of the PlayStation 3.
The inception of what would become the released PlayStation dates back to 1986 with a joint venture between Nintendo and Sony. Nintendo had already produced floppy disk technology to complement cartridges, in the form of the Family Computer Disk System, and wanted to continue this complementary storage strategy for the Super Famicom. Nintendo approached Sony to develop a CD-ROM add-on, tentatively titled the "Play Station" or "SNES-CD". A contract was signed, and work began. Nintendo's choice of Sony was due to a prior dealing: Ken Kutaragi, the person who would later be dubbed "The Father of the PlayStation", was the individual who had sold Nintendo on using the Sony SPC-700 processor for use as the eight-channel ADPCM sound set in the Super Famicom/SNES console through an impressive demonstration of the processor's capabilities.
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