Live Magazine June Edition - Spider-Man!

and the CEO of the humiliation
that Nintendo had inflated
on them and the decision was
made to go ahead with the project.
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 alternative.
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, Australia
and Europe. It was the first
console to sell over 100 million
saw classic games released including,
Tekken, Ridge Racer,
Grand Turismo, WipeOut, Tomb
Raider and Colin McRae Rally
among many others. For many
gamers, it was their first console,
it opened a world of 3D
gaming with fast smooth graphics
and excellent 3rd party support
thanks to Sony’s approach
of dealing with developers providing
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 console
- the Xbox.
The PlayStation in all its variants
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).