PlayStation Console Meets Its End

Skidz`Crew · Post by **Skidz`Crew** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:57 pm

December of 1994 marks Sony?s entrance into the global gaming industry with PlayStation. The launch of the PS3 effectively pulls the plug on Sony's original PlayStation console. PlayStation has been around for more than 11 years and last September PlayStation and PSOne redesign marked the "100 million units sold milestone," an extraordinary accomplishment by any standard.

Sony noted the end of the PlayStation production does not mean the end of availability. The hardware and software that placed Sony on the gaming world map continues to sell world wide. For those PS diehards, if PS games are difficult to find, Sony announced that a PS emulator for the PSP will soon be available. The games for this emulator will be digitally distributed.

To put things in perspective, the Atari 2600 gaming console began life in 1977 and Atari ended production in 1991. Nevertheless, PlayStation?s production run of over ten years is impressive.

Post by **Tami** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:44 pm

Sony has confirmed that the original PlayStation which saw its initial launch in Japan in 1994 is no longer in production. PlayStation, or the PSOne as it was renamed in 2000, with over 103 million units sold worldwide will enter the halls of the Vintage Console genre. Sony has also confirmed that the next gen console PlayStation 3 will be backwards compatible for both PS2 and PS1, and that they are developing an emulator for PSP which will support PS1 games.

Sales of PS2 consoles have begun to taper off, most likely due to people waiting for the PS3 to hit store shelves this winter but Sony has not revealed any plans to cease production of its second generation console.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:33 pm

uh oh...and my playstation is broken.... Crap. The thing might have been worth some money in 500 years. <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... #>/cry.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':(\' />