PlayStation

Geraldo Riaditya

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What is a PlayStation? PlayStation is a series of video game consoles created and developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The brand was first introduced on December 3, 1994 in Japan with the launch of the original PlayStation console.It now consists of four home consoles, Playstation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. Did you know any of it? or do you ever use it?

I will explain about the PlayStation or you can called it PlayStation 1. The original PlayStation, released on December 3, 1994, was the first of the ubiquitous PlayStation series of console and hand-held game devices. It has included successor consoles and upgrades including the Net Yaroze (a special black PlayStation with tools and instructions to program PlayStation games and applications), "PSone" (a smaller version of the original) and the PocketStation (a handheld which enhances PlayStation games and also acts as a memory card). It was part of the fifth generation of video game consoles competing against the Sega Saturn and the Nintendo 64. By December 2003, the PlayStation and PSone had shipped a combined total of 102.49 million units.

Next, is the PlayStation 2. It was released in 2000, 15 months after the Dreamcast and a year before its other competitors, the Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube, the PlayStation 2 is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles, and is backwards-compatible with most original PlayStation games. Like its predecessor, it has received a slimmer redesign, and was also released built into the PSX DVR and the Sony BRAVIA KDL22PX300 HDTV. It is the most successful home console in the world, having sold over 155 million units sold as of December 28, 2012

After that, i will explain the PlayStation 3. It was released on November 17, 2006 in North America, the PlayStation 3 is a seventh generation game console from Sony. It competes with the Microsoft Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. The PS3 is the first console in the series to introduce the use of motion-sensing technology through its Sixaxis wireless controller. The console also incorporates a Blu-ray Disc player and features high-definition resolution. The PS3 was originally offered with either a 20 GB or 60 GB hard drive, but over the years its capacity increased in increments available up to 500 GB. The PlayStation 3 has sold over 80 million consoles worldwide as of November 2013.

Last is the PlayStation 4. The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is the latest video game console from Sony Computer Entertainment announced at a press conference on February 20, 2013. In the meeting, Sony revealed some hardware specifications of the new console. The eighth-generation system, launched in the fourth quarter of 2013, introduced the x86 architecture to the PlayStation series. According to lead system architect, Mark Cerny, development on the PlayStation 4 began as early as 2008. PlayStation Europe CEO Jim Ryan emphasized in 2011 that Sony wanted to avoid launching the next-generation console behind the competition.

The difference from four of them is in the sophisticated and the price each of them. PlayStation 2 is more sophisticated than PlayStation 1 and more expensive and so on. But, we can say that PlayStation 2 has more good grafic, controller, and games than PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 3 has more than PlayStation 2 in grafic,games and PlayStation 4 is more sophisticated from four of them.

In conclude, we must choose the console what we really want to play, because every console has many games that we can enjoy with our family and with our friends. Don't be fooled by era, more modern something is not really means it has a good benefits for us.