PlayStation



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The PlayStation's creation was a bumpy ride. It began as a CD drive for the SNES, but Nintendo noticed too late that the contract was too favorable to Sony, jumped ship, and went to bed with Philips (which ultimately led to the creation of the infamous CD-i). Publicly scorned and fuming with resentment, Sony decided to take what they had at that point and make their own console. Many expected it to be an also-ran, at most a distant third place. Yet the angry newcomer came out swinging and crushed the competition, leaving them asking: what the hell just happened?

Here's what: the PlayStation was their perfect storm. While everyone else fucked shit up, Sony got pretty much everything right. While Sega did a complex and expensive design that left even the best programmers scratching their heads, Sony did a simple but powerful machine that was much easier to code for; and while Nintendo tried to gouge third-parties with cartridge prices, Sony offered their CD manufacturing plants and distribution structure to publish their games at much lower costs.

Ultimately, it became the best selling console ever (later surpassed by the PlayStation 2), so you will find a vast game library. Quite a lot of garbage in the pile too, but that's what this wiki is here for, right?

Actually, disregard all the bullshit you just read. My little fanboy retarded brother from Neogaf must have wrote this. Sony actually just got lucky, they didn't necessarily do anything "right", per-se, more than just being in in the right place at the right time. Honestly the PS1 system itself sucks - really sucks. But this was the proper time for all these developers to publish for a mainstream system with this amazing new CD technology. Before the PS1, the CD technology was poorly supported, it was too young, and FMV encoding was a bitch. The CD technology makes a huge difference, and was finally mature enough at just the right moment for the PS1 system to utilize. It made all the difference, and allowed for a massive (at the time) storage of 700mb, which was far beyond anything else. Sony are totally a bunch of corrupt crooks who betrayed Nintendo. Do you honestly believe Sony has ever done anything right after the PS1?? Just look at Gran Turismo. What do you people expect from a shoddy consumer electronics manufacturer who produced mid-tier products but always tried to price them as high-tier. Also, Sony was never really into computers; only walkmans and VCR's. In fact, if you look at their first computer, the MSX, it was actually made by Microsoft. This was a time before China was used to manufacture cheap computer hardware. The Japanese were the original place to go for slave labor for digital components.


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Yeah you can play PS1 games on a PSP, a PS2 or a PS3*. If you have to get a PS1 get a Yaroze, it plays games regardless of region, unlike the regular PS1s or get a modchip.

Please note that "PS1-PSN" denotes games available on the PSone Classics service on Playstation Network (simplified for space issues).

* ''Protip: Contrary to popular belief, ALL PS3 units can play PS1 discs. PS2 games however are out of the question.''