PlayStation

The PlayStation is a video game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. The original PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of console and hand-held game devices, which has included successor machines including the PSone (a smaller version of the original), PocketStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PSX (Japan Only), and the forthcoming PlayStation 3.

By March 2005, the PlayStation/PSone had shipped a total of 102.49 million units, becoming the first home console to ever reach the 100 million mark. In 2001, it was noted in a brochure that one in three houses in the US owned a PlayStation.