The gaming world is celebrating the global launch of Sony’s PlayStation 5 series and Microsoft’s Xbox series this month. The Japanese company will launch new game consoles in several countries on November 12, and will do the same in other parts of the world (including Europe) on November 19. The American rival made its world debut two days ago.
While the world continues to await the arrival of the fifth console in the PlayStation family, one of its predecessors, the PlayStation 2, will always remain the best-selling console. Celebrating its 20th anniversary in March, the console has sold more than 157 million units since its launch.
Japanese companies have also found that various PlayStation models dominate all the top positions in the ranking of the most commercially successful consoles. Therefore, the first
generations of PlayStation are of the 5 most purchased board game consoles in the world.
With the exception of Sony, only Nintendo with the famous Wii has sold more than 100 million consoles.
Officially, the PlayStation 2 launched in Japan on March 2000, but not in other regions until a few months later. Since the leak, the industry expected Sony to fully develop the successor to the PS1 released in late 199.
This device was an immediate commercial success. .. To date, it remains the best-selling console in history with more than 160 million units.
On the other hand, it holds other records such as the largest number of games (more than 10,000) and the oldest device on the market, a total of 13 computers. It only came off the market two months before Sony announced the PlayStation.
Back then, and still today, it was one of the most profitable teams thanks to its technical quality, gameplay options, and compatibility with PS1 games. This feature is probably the best, because at first the game catalog was remarkably small.
However, Sony fans have had the opportunity to update their PlayStation and have listed various titles such as FINAL FANTASY IX, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, and Resident Evil.
On a technical and design level, there are now more sophisticated consoles (like the other two versions from Sony), but this group is still sought after by hundreds of gamers as an alternative execution model.
specs
The system runs on a 6-inch MIPS IV RISC Emotion Engine processor.
bits. This technical quality enables a distinctive level of performance on the console, allowing it to beat competing teams (primarily Sega’s Dreamcast and Nintendo’s GameCube).
Out of curiosity, early PS3 models continued to use this processor in improved versions. The first model has 32 MB of RAMBUS memory a 00 MH.
8 Includes output of 2, gigapixels for 3D surround sound and graphic displays on the channels.
Its additional features are an Ethernet connection, two USB ports (not available on other consoles on the market by the way), a Sony memory card reader, and a DVD player.
Included was a device that posterity called the Dualshock 2. It’s lighter than its predecessor, has smaller buttons, and was initially sold in black. In addition, it incorporates the same technology in its structure that allows the determination of pressure points.
