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and the CEO of the humilia-
tion that Nintendo had inflated
on them and the decision was
made to go ahead with the pro-
ject. 3D polygon graphics were
chosen as the consoles focus
(source Wikipedia) after Sony
saw the success Sega had
with Virtua Fighter... Tekken
for example was a brilliant al-
ternative. Sony worked hard on
creating what some called, the
“machine of the future” (Steven
Pool in his book Trigger Happy)
and released it in 1994 in Japan
and 1995 in the U.S, Austral-
ia and Europe. It was the first
console to sell over 100 million
saw classic games released in-
cluding, Tekken, Ridge Racer,
Grand Turismo, WipeOut, Tomb
Raider and Colin McRae Rally
among many others. For many
gamers, it was their first con-
sole, it opened a world of 3D
gaming with fast smooth graph-
ics and excellent 3rd party sup-
port thanks to Sony’s approach
of dealing with developers pro-
viding them with a range of
programming libraries and a
well run tech support team to
help developers get the head
around the hardware. It may
have even inspired Microsoft
to create their first gaming con-
sole - the Xbox.
The PlayStation in all its vari-
ants sold over 104 million units.
VARIANTS:
1994 - PlayStation
1996 - PlayStation (5000
series)
1997 - PlayStation White
1998 - PlayStation (7000
series)
1999 - PlayStation (9000
series)
(In 2000 Sony released the
PSone but this system comes
after our cutoff time).