PlayStation

PlayStation
Released:	U.S. - September 9, 1995 Japan - December 3, 1994 Europe - September 29, 1995
Generation:	Fifth generation
Units shipped:	102 million
Best-selling games:	Gran Turismo - 10 million (April 2008)

The PlayStation (abbreviated PS, PSone, PS1, or informally as PSX) is a 32-bit fifth generation video game console released by Sony Computer Entertainment in December 1994. It is succeeded by the PlayStation 2 in 2000 and PlayStation 3 in 2006. PSOne devkits were only $4,000 [1] Sony stopped producing the console in early 2006, 12 years after its release.[2]

Charts

PlayStation (PSone) hardware sales figures (production shipments)

Sales figures tidbits

• Worldwide
  • March 1999: 50 million shipped [3]
  • October 2001: 88.26 million shipped [4]
  • March 2007: 102.5 million shipped [5]
• United States
  • 9 months - 1 million[6]
  • 14 months - 1.5 million [7]
  • End of 1996 - 2.9 million
  • April 1997 - 3.5 million [8]
  • End of 1998 - 11.5 million

Software sales

Japan sales Playstation 1 Software LTD for Japan

1. PSX - Dragon Quest VII 3.893.293
2. PSX - Final Fantasy VIII 3.501.588
3. PSX - Final Fantasy VII 3.277.776
4. PSX - Final Fantasy IX 2.707.301
5. PSX - Gran Turismo 2.186.375
6. PSX - Resident Evil 2 2.154.975
7. PSX - Minna no Golf 1.777.895
8. PSX - Derby Stallion 1.737.819

External links

• playstationmuseum.com
• The Making of PlayStation