Entertainment Awaits | The Evolution of PlayStation Console Series (Part1)
Over the past 25 years, the PlayStation console series have had a lasting impact on the video game market. Sony’s PlayStation brand was introduced in December 1994, and since then, four major PlayStation consoles have been released. In these years, the console manufacturer battles Nintendo at that time and even returned to its place of number one in the games industry when the PS4 broke sales records a few years back.
Some of its consoles received slim & pro versions and refreshed designs. The PS4 console broke a sales record of selling over 100 million units this year, keeping the number one place in the gaming industry. Indeed, the Sony company wasn’t the first company to launch a console, with Atari, Nintendo, and Sega coming before it.
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PlayStation has a long history, including many popular home consoles, handheld devices, classic games, and peripherals. PlayStation 5 is the company’s newest & latest console, which is more of what you expect from a next-generation console. More powerful, a new controller, improved connectivity, fast flash storage, a brand new UI, besides a new bunch of accessories, and support for a new generation of video games.
Today, at Flidbe, we’re taking a look at PlayStation history, from the first console to the latest bleeding-edge machine. We will look back at all the PlayStation Consoles. And, we divide our blog into two parts. Stay tuned & follow Flidbe on these two blogs.
Playstation
The original PlayStation was launched in Japan in December 1994 in a corporation with Nintendo. This console became the first video game console to ship more than 100 million units. The console brought real-time 3D graphics, a faster processor, engaging games, and it even popularised the CD format. It featured a dual-speed CD-ROM drive, a one-core CPU with 2MB of RAM, and 1MB of video RAM with graphics that could deliver up to 360,000 polygons per second.
Sony had an excellent strategy for the console. They’d collaborated with various studios. The company approach to third-party developers was a big part of the PlayStation’s success. Almost hundreds of games were being developed for the PlayStation in two years, such as Dead or Alive, Gran Turismo, Crash Bandicoot, Final Fantasy VII, Tomb Raider 2, Silent Hill, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2.
The company didn’t feature an internal hard drive. Instead, the game saves required memory cards, which were a measly 128KB in size. Its controller was the first one released by Sony that using geometric shapes of a red circle, plus a blue cross, and a pink square. Sony didn’t ship with a DualShock controller. Instead, its primary PlayStation controller lacked thumbsticks and force-feedback technology. Sony would later release its first DualShock controller in 1997.
PlayStation One
Sony released the PS One on July 7, 2000, just a few months before the release of the PlayStation 2. It was less expensive than the original PlayStation and featured a redesigned chassis with a much-rounded shape. It was basically a smaller, redesigned version of the original console that included both design tweaks and a new menu.
The updated PS One performed surprisingly well. This console features a separate 5-inch LCD screen for the PS One released that turned the console into a portable gaming machine. Also, the console went on to sell 28 million units.
Playstation 2
After Sega’s Dreamcast, the first sixth-generation console, Sony unveiled the PlayStation 2 at the Tokyo Game Show in September 1999 and released it in July 2011. It became the best-selling console to date, selling more than 155 million units over 12 years. That was a big deal because the PS2 actually became one of the cheaper DVD players on the market at the time.
The Playstation 2 launched with its Emotion Engine CPU and Graphics Synthesizer GPU, a one-core processor clocked at 294.9MHz. Its processor was built on the MIPS architecture with a floating-point performance of 6.2 GFLOPS with a fillrate of 2.4 gigapixels rendering up to 75 million polygons per second.
The PS2 had backward compatibility with PS1 games, which was a rare feature at the time. Some of the following games which released exclusively for the console, GTA (Grand Theft Auto), Final Fantasy, and MGS (Metal Gear Solid). Some of the most popular video game series started from PlayStation 2 are Kingdom Hearts, God of War, and Devil May Cry.
The original Playstation 2 allowed users to install an optional 40GB hard drive. This 40GB drive is plugged into the original machine, and it could be used to install games onto to speed up loading times.
The company launched a Broadband Adapter for online play beside a hard drive too. Both accessories were plugged into the back of the original PS2s, but the expansion bay was removed when the slimline PS2 launched. 2 years after its launch, Sony announced a Network Adapter for its console that allowed gamers to play certain games online such as Final Fantasy XI. Over 3,800 game titles have been released for the console, with over 1.5 billion copies sold.
In September 2004, Sony unveiled its third major hardware revision. As the name suggested, Playstation 2 Slim was smaller and quieter than the first version (PS2). PS2 Slim was also improved with the addition of an ethernet port.
PlayStation X
At a time when the PS2 was ruling the market, Sony announced the PSX in Japan. It was combined with a PS2 with DVR functionality like DVD burning plus a 160GB hard drive. This was also the first Sony’ console device to use the Xross Media Bar UI, which was later seen on the PSP and PS3. It was designed like a VCR and had no resemblance to the PS2.
Though, the PSX turned out to be a commercial dud in Sony’s home market. While the PSX was able to play PS1 and PS2 games, the console had a high failure rate. Hopefully, PlayStation X was the first device to use Sony’s XrossMediaBar (XMB) graphical user interface.
PlayStation Portable
During the PS2 and PS3 launches, Sony decided to release the first handheld in PlayStation history with the PlayStation Portable (PSP) back in 2004. Sony’s first region-free console features a smaller motherboard and a custom ASIC that houses the Emotion Engine, Graphics Synthesizer, and the RDRAM. The PSP was the company’s first handheld games console and attempted to compete with the Nintendo DS.
PSP features a built-in web browser and a 4.3-inch widescreen high-resolution screen, Toss in multimedia playback functionality, and Wi-Fi, and you had a feature-packed handheld for the time. It was ahead of the Game Boy Advance but lost to the console, thanks to Sony’s proprietary UMD (Universal Media Disc) format and the high costs of Memory Stick Duo. To mention some of its games, we could name Lumines, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Persona 3 Portable, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror, and God of War: Chains of Olympus.
As we mentioned before, we divided our blog into two parts. Thanks for your time. We will continue our blog in part two by looking back at PS3, PS4, and maybe PS5.
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