PlayStation’s Evolution
- January 5th, 2009
- Posted in Featured Articles
- By Thomas Cronin
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 From Metal Gear Solid 1 on the PlayStation to Metal Gear Solid 4 on the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation has truly revolutionized gaming. PlayStation has proved that it is the number 1 console on the market introducing new developers and new games time and time again. From 128 KB memory cards on the PlayStation , 8 MB memory cards on the PlayStation 2 and then hard drives on the PlayStation 3. Who knows what Sony has in store for us with the next PlayStation.
Sony still thinks that PlayStation 1 games are still as good as they were back when the PlayStation 1 was released, every week Sony releases the best PlayStation 1 games exclusively on the PlayStation Store. Such titles as as the Crash Bandicoot series, Twisted Metal and Street Fighter Alpha . The PlayStation 1 was released back in December 4th 1994 in Japan. Many games succeeded because of the PlayStation 1, many games like Metal Gear Solid 1, Tekken, Lara Croft and a huge number of games. At that time, the PlayStation 1 has set Sony on the road to victory.
The PlayStation 2 was released on March 4th, 2000 in Japan. The new Dual Shock 2 controller was used for the PlayStation 2. The PlayStation 2 offered a new style of game play. It introduced Eye Toy. Eye Toy was the first of it’s kind, a brand new way to interact with your games on your television. The PS2 had a huge number of sales, 120 million and still going. For the first time ever for a Sony console online was added as a function or the PlayStation 2, games such as Metal Gear Solid 3, Burnout 3 and Killzone. The PS2 slimline was introduced which was much smaller and lighter that the original ps2.
The PSP (PlayStation Portable) was announced at E3 in 2003 and had a release date for December 12th, 2004 for Japan. The PSP was classed as a hand held – it would have built in web browser and would include firmware updates every once and a while which included cool features in the future like online radio, new Internet search, Remote Play, PSOne Title Support, and Skype for example. The PSP had a big amount of successful games like God of War Chains Of Olympus, Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories as well. Skype was a new way to socialize with fellow PSP owners. Skype was only compatible with the slim & lite. Go! Messenger was added to the PSP-1000. Remote Play was also added to the To the PSP to play games on the PSP off the PlayStation 3 but there is only one Blu Ray disc that supports remote play between the PSP and the PlayStation 3and that game is Lair . Some games that are bought off the PlayStation Store can be transferred from the PlayStation 3 to the PSP via USB. Sony released the PlayStation Store for the PSP on the PC. Download games off the PC and then transfer them on to the PSP also via USB. And the at a later stage they released a firmware update that enables the user to access the playstation store via your PSP. PSP has some pretty cool things in it’s pipeline – Resistance Retribution, a new model of the PSP called the PSP-3000 with a built in microphone and a improved screen that’s better outside with no glare. Sony believes they can do so much more with the PSP.
Last but not least, the PlayStation 3. Sony officially unveiled the PlayStation 3 to the public on May 16, 2005, during the E3 2005 conference. Sony added so much more in to the PlayStation 3 , WI FI, web browser, compatibility with the PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, PSP, free online with the PSN, amazing graphics, and a new disc medium, Blu Ray, which can have a storage amount of 50 GB when dual-layered. A Blu Ray player was added to the PlayStation 3 to watch movies in 1080p. The PlayStation Store was a big feature for the PlayStation 3. Being able to download themes, wallpapers, videos, demos and a whole lot more content is free of charge, a huge leap from PlayStation 2. Just like the PlayStation Network itself, it’s free of charge. The PlayStation 3 has many exclusives worth noting. Games like Uncharted and Uncharted 2 hopefully coming soon, Heavenly Sword, LittleBigPlanet, Resistance and Resistance 2, Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of The Patriots and Killzone 2 are prime examples. New accessories would be introduced to the PlayStation 3 like the PlayStation Eye, and a new type of control, SIXAXIS control, which uses tilt motion sensing (6 axis of movement), and the new controller DUALSHOCK 3 which added vibration to it. A new video download service was announced at E3 2008 and would launch that night only for American users. Little Big Planet and Metal Gear Solid 4 were huge exclusive PlayStation 3 game that came out this year. ‘Home’ is a place where you can go and chat with friends and go play games with them as well. Home was delayed last year but we were %100 promised that it would be coming out by the end of the year and it did but still in the beta.
PlayStation 3 has gone off to a slow start but it surely is going to come out on top
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thank you for the history lesson, do you put this much work into school or college or wherever the hell you are
You could say that, I just want to show people how the PlayStation franchise started out and how it has progressed.
thanks for this article….DarkMangina was that really necessary? because that’s his/her personal life and it has nothing to do with you or this article, so don’t go trying to be cool or clever or funny because your not accomplishing anything by trying to show off and being a smart ass so people can look at you and applause .. Thank you Thomas for spending your time writing and article for us to read, i really enjoyed it.
What a terribly written article.
I don’t mind, everyone has their own opinion but your one wasn’t the same as mine. I must only ask why do you think so?
Once the PS3 comes down in price, i don’t think anything will stop it selling even more than the PS2 did.
The smartest move Sony could make is to cut the price in the summer, around July/August time, right in the middle of all their huge game releases (I know Killzone 2 get’s released in February, but all the others are slated for a Q2/Q3 release or later). That way new PS3 owners will have a plethora of newly released PS3 exclusives to choose from, as well as the ones that are already out. This will create greater software sales for the console and will recoup the money lost on selling the console for a reduced price.
Anywho……Sony know what they’re doing (I hope), they have this entire console generation laid out on a map in front of them, i suppose they’re doing what they’re doing for reasons the rest of us can’t see…………….
Im pretty sure I read some where that the price cut would happen sometime in March 09
I have to say that I agree with DocBrown. The article had no flow and was just unpleasant to read in general. I agree with the topic but maybe you should just polish up a bit on the writing skillz!
Ok i will make a note of it.
It was a good review. Maybe a bit too patriotic. It would have been nice if you could have compared their development and evoltion as well as success with that of Microsoft’s X-Box and Nintendo’s products.