Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. (SCEI) is full subsidiary of Sony Corporation that was established on November 16, 1993 in Tokyo, Japan. SCEI is a video game company specialising in variety of video game areas, mostly in the video game consoles, such as the Sony PlayStation, although they also develop and publish video games for their systems. (Find out more about Sony as a games developer and publisher here ...)
Sony's first venture into the video game market, was the PlayStation (later redesigned as the PSone), released in Japan on December 3, 1994 and later in North America on September 9, 1995. The system was widely popular and quickly became the best selling home console to date, only to be surpassed by its successor the PlayStation 2.
This follow-up console, the PS2, was released in Japan on March 4, 2000 and later in North America on October 26, 2000, and became very successful in the marketplace, with nearly twice the sales of all its competitors combined. In December 2003, Sony upgraded the PlayStation 2 by adding DVD burning and a hard drive with video recording functionality. The upgraded system was renamed the PSX, but due to its lack of sales success, it was never released outside of Japan.
The PlayStation 3 is Sony's next-generation video game console, unveiled on May 16, 2005 and released in November 2006 (March 2007 in Europe). The console has many innovative features such as Blu-ray disc technology, a tilt sensing controller, and high-end multimedia interfaces such as HDMI which is fully capable of 1080p resolution.
In 2004, the PlayStation Portable was released, Sony's first handheld gaming system. In addition to playing games, the system is able to play music, watch videos, view pictures and access the Internet. With over 20 million units shipped to date, the PSP is the most successful competitor in the handheld market against Nintendo, who has been dominant since the 1989 release of the Game Boy.
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