Video Games Consoles

During the first and second generations of video game consoles, many electronic companies jumped on the console bandwagon. After all, they built products with the same parts. A year after the PlayStation’s release, Nintendo tried to take down the newcomer turned-gaming industry giant by releasing their own 3D gaming console, the Nintendo 64, but Nintendo stuck with the cartridge format, which inevitably led to its downfall. For that very reason, developers were drawn to the PlayStation ("History of the Sony PlayStation").
Before the release of the first PlayStation, Sony was never into the video game market. Sony had made a few attempts to make things for computers, but when the CD-ROM technology had come out, Sony could start to get some market share. The origins of the PlayStation is traced back to Nintendo because Nintendo tried to integrate disk-based software into its gaming hardware. Sony was the second company to introduce disk-based software into gaming, but even though it was the second, the PlayStation made disk-based software the most popular.
The PlayStation was first released on December 3, 1994. Since the PlayStation was slim, sleek and had a revolutionary controller, Sony’s console was a huge success. Before companies were interested in disk-based gaming, game cartridges ruled over the game industry but Sony challenged that when they used discs in their new system. Game companies did not use disc software in their games at times because cartridges were cheaper but the new CD technology that Sony incorporated in the PlayStation had increased storage space which allowed it to have better video and audio quality than other consoles at the time.
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...ne, Sony had made extreme improvements to its product to make it one of the best-selling consoles today. As of May 2014, the PlayStation 4 has already sold over 7 million consoles and over 20.5 million games for it (Molina). While evolving every few years and continuously adding new features in updates to the systems to the systems that could get them, The PlayStation has come a long way since its first release in 1994. If it wasn’t for the competition with other game system developers such as Microsoft, Sega, and Nintendo, Sony would not have made it this far in the gaming industry. The constant competition between the different companies is the main reason for companies to introduce new features in updates and in new systems. The latest model of the Sony PlayStation may be one of the best next-gen consoles out there, the PlayStation 4 still has a long way to go.