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Sony is a video game company, and one of Nintendo's biggest competitions.

Q: Why is there a Sony stub on Nintendopedia?

A: To prove a point: Unlike Nintendo, Sony has VERY few games that it has produced. Of course it licenses all the new movies into games but so does every other company.

Playstation

PlayStation Logo

The PlayStation Logo.

The Playstation was the first home console produced from Sony, it was released in 94-95 and has sold 102.49 million units. It resulted from a failed joint project between Nintendo and Sony. Sony was designing a disc-playing peripheral for the Super Nintendo and the deal went awry. Sony left and developed their own console, the Playstation.

PSOne

The PSone, launched in 2000, is Sony's smaller (and redesigned) version of its PlayStation. The PSone is about one-third smaller than the original PlayStation and went on to outsell all other consoles including Sony's own brand-new PlayStation 2 throughout the remainder of the year.

Playstation 2

The sucessor to the Playstation was the Playstation 2, unlike before this was a multi regional console as it could also be used as a DVD player, this is something that Nintendo did not add to their consoles; the Playstation 2 also had the added function of being backwards compatible with Playstation games, including the use of the Dualshock. From its release in 2001 the PS2 has sold over 120.10 million.

Slim case design

This is the slim lined version of the original Playstation 2, it has a few improvements over the original with a quieter fan and the option to go online and play online games straight from the box as apposed to getting a adaptor for the original.

Playstation 3

The Playstation 3 is the latest in the Playstation range offering more in the way in terms of functions compared its predecessors. It was released within two days of the Wii, though about a year after the Xbox 360, which gained a dramatic head start. It features BluRay compatibility, as BluRay is a Sony product. Backward compatibility is limited, however, depending on the model.

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