Product type | Video game console (home, handheld and microconsole) Production company (PlayStation Originals; TV series and films) |
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Owner | Sony Interactive Entertainment |
Country | Minami-Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
Introduced | December 3, 1994; 24 years ago |
Markets | Worldwide |
Website | www.playstation.com |
Console | PlayStation (PS) | PlayStation 2 (PS2) | PlayStation 3 (PS3) | PlayStation 4 (PS4) |
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Image | Top: PS Bottom: PS One | Left: PS2 Right: PS2 Slim | Top: PS3 (left) and PS3 Slim (right) Bottom: PS3 Super Slim | Top: PS4 Bottom: PS4 Pro |
Launch price | PS ¥39,800[1] US$299[47] £299[48] PS One unknown | PS2 ¥39,800[1] US$299[47] £299[48] PS2 Slim unknown | PS3 ¥49,980 (20 GB)[1] US$499 (20 GB) US$599 (60 GB)[47] £425 (60 GB)[49] €599 (60 GB)[48] PS3 Slim unknown PS3 Super Slim unknown | PS4 ¥38,980 (500 GB) US$399 (500 GB) €399 (500 GB) £349 (500 GB) PS4 Slim US$299 (500 GB) US$349 (1 TB) €299 (500 GB) €349 (1 TB) PS4 Pro US$399 (1 TB) €399 (1 TB) |
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Units shipped | 102.49 million shipped, including 28.15 million PS one units (as of March 31, 2007)[26] | >155 million (as of December 28, 2012)[3] | >87.4 million (as of March 31, 2017)[56] | >96.8 million (as of March 31, 2019)[57] |
Best-selling game | Gran Turismo; 10.85 million shipped (as of April 30, 2008)[58][59] | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas; 17.33 million shipped (as of March 26, 2008)[58] | Grand Theft Auto V; over 15 million shipped (as of December 7, 2013) | Uncharted 4: A Thief's End; 8.7 million shipped (as of December 21, 2016)[60] |
Media | CD-ROM | DVD-ROM/CD-ROM | BD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-ROM, SACD (1st and 2nd Gen Only)[61] | Blu-ray, DVD Blu-ray 6x CAV, DVD 8x CAV |
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CPU | R3000A 32bit RISC chip @ 33.7 MHz - Manufactured by LSI Corporation | 300 MHz MIPS 'Emotion Engine' | Cell Broadband Engine (3.2 GHz Power ISA 2.03-based PPE with eight 3.2 GHz SPE) | 8-Core 1.6 GHz AMD 'Jaguar' (PS4 and PS4 Slim), 8-Core 2,1 GHz AMD 'Jaguar' (PS4 Pro) |
GPU | 16.47 million colors Resolution: 256x224 - 640x480Sprite/BG drawingAdjustable frame bufferNo line restrictionUnlimited CLUTs (Color Look-Up Tables)4,000 8x8 pixel sprites with individual scaling and rotationSimultaneous backgrounds (Parallax scrolling)620,000 polygons/sec | 147 MHz 'Graphics Synthesizer'; fill rate 2.352 gigapixel/sec; 1.1 gigapixel w. 1 texture(diffuse); 588 megapixel/sec w. 2 textures (2 diffuse maps or 1 diffuse map and 1 other(0 around 74 mill, 1 around 40 mill, 2 around 20 mill); 2 textures per pass Capable of multi-pass rendering; Connected to VU1 on CPU (a vector only for visual style coding things with 3.2 GFLOPS) to deliver enhanced shader graphics and other enhanced graphics | 550 MHz RSX 'Reality Synthesizer' (based on Nvidia G70 architecture) | Custom AMD Radeon 18 Compute Units (1152 shaders) @ 800 MHz[64]1,8 TFLOPS (PS4 and PS4 Slim) Custom AMD Radeon 18 Compute Units (1152 shaders) @ 800 MHz 4,2 TFLOPS (PS4 Pro) |
Online service | N/A | Non-unified service | PlayStation Network PlayStation Store Internet browser A/V chat via PlayStation Eye or PS2 EyeToy, voice chat via headset | PlayStation Network |
Backward compatibility | N/A | PlayStation | 20GB & 60GB: All PlayStation and PlayStation 2 titlesOriginal 80GB: All PS1 titles, most PS2 titles.[65]All other models (model code CECHGxx and later): Support for PS1 titles only. | No native backwards compatibility. Cloud based backwards compatibility via PlayStation Now.[66]Emulated PlayStation 2 titles available from the PlayStation Store. |
System software | proprietary OS | proprietary OS, Linux DVD Playback Kit | XrossMediaBar (XMB) | Orbis OS[67] |
System software features | Audio CD playback | Audio CD playback DVD Playback | Operating Systems can be installed and run via a hypervisor (feature unavailable with Slim Model[68]) Audio CD playback Audio file playback (ATRAC3, AAC, MP3, WAV, WMA) Blu-ray playbackDVD playbackVideo file playback (MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264-AVC, DivX) Image editing and slideshows (JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP) Mouse and keyboard support Folding@Home client with visualizations from the RSX | Blu-ray playback DVD playback Audio playback from inserted USB flash drive |
Consumer programmability | Requires the Net Yaroze kit | Yabasic software, Linux for PlayStation 2 | Development on console via free Linux platform or PC. | TBA |
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