Sony's first home console celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary. We review the greatest successes of a mythical system.
PlayStation celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this December 3rd. Sony's first home console was put up for sale on a day like today in Japan, at which time thousands of fans approached their trusted businesses to see what the first approach of a technology giant like this was going to materialize in the Digital entertainment sector. The story is well known.
Jim Ryan, current CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, commented on the official PlayStation blog on the occasion of this celebration to be very proud of what they achieved with a system capable of selling 100 million units worldwide.
“We revolutionized the player community because PlayStation offered experiences that no one could imagine were possible with a home console. From the beginning, we open ourselves to developers and provide them with the tools and technology to create beautiful and extensive worlds, in addition to experimenting with new ideas. ”
More than 100 million consoles and hundreds of outstanding games where a few managed to catapult themselves as successes whose memory is indelible in the minds of the players. The console, which opted for the CD-ROM as a necessary evolution after many years with cartridges, ended up being the most successful movement to know how to adapt to the immediate future at all levels, also the technological one.
The companies ended up yielding to the Sony system when it came to presenting exclusive works such as Final Fantasy VII, a saga hitherto synonymous with Nintendo. Neither Nintendo 64 nor SEGA Saturn, the alternatives of Nintendo and SEGA at that time, respectively, were enough to overshadow the creation of Sony.
Below we review the 10 best-selling PlayStation titles throughout its history.
