The Sony platform celebrates its 25th anniversary with trump figures and a message from its president and CEO.
Not every day 25 candles are blown. PlayStation has turned a quarter of a century and Sony is celebrating twice. And it is not only about the anniversary, but the brand has taken a Guinness Record. This was announced by the company in a press release, in which it has confirmed that the award is due to the historical sales of the platform. Adding the figures of all your desktop consoles, the numbers indicate that 450 million machines have been sold.
It was on December 3, 1994 when the first PlayStation debuted in Japan. The project began to take shape after Nintendo broke the agreement whereby both companies pledged to develop a console with a disc reader. The result was that Sony continued the project independently, which led to commercial success. They sold 100,000 units during the launch day in Japan; later, the triumph extended to the rest of territories.
PlayStation 2 repeated with big sales, while its next console had a difficult start, since the price barrier with respect to the competition was too large. Instead, the company returned to the right path with PlayStation 4, with more than 100 million machines sold.
Happy # 25YearsOfPlay! 💙 Our friends at @mediamolecule dreamt up a special birthday surprise for us … https://t.co/T6in6Agf2S pic.twitter.com/I3SHRVZ0NX
– PlayStation (@PlayStation) December 3, 2019
The words of the president of SIE
On the occasion of the anniversary, Jim Ryan acknowledged feeling honored to have participated in the birth of PlayStation from the beginning. While laying the groundwork for business in Europe, he was in charge of hiring employees and commissioning and buying furniture for the new division, until recently Sony Computer Entertainment (now Sony Interactive Entertainment.
One of the strategies that Sony adopted in that first era was to strengthen ties with developers and help them with technology. "That strategy became the variety of games that PlayStation is known for," Ryan says. In those years, the company still did not have the network of internal equipment that it enjoys at the present time.
Source | PlayStation (press release)
