| Type | Subsidiary of Sony | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Industry | Interactive entertainment Computer and video games |
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| Founded | November 16, 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. is a major video game
company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry,
and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products &
Services Group of Sony.
The company was established on November 16, 1993 in Tokyo, Japan, prior to the launch of the original PlayStation video game system. Sony Computer Entertainment produces the PlayStation family of video game hardware consisting of consoles and handhelds. Sony's first wide home console release was the PlayStation. The PlayStation was released in Japan on December 3, 1994 and later in
North America on September 9, 1995. Currently the highest selling home
console of all time. The PS2 is powered by a proprietary central processing unit, the Emotion Engine, and was the first video game console to have DVD playback functionality included out of the box.The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is SCE's first foray into
the small handheld console market, which was and to this date still is
dominated by Nintendo. Its development was first announced during SCE's E3
conference in 2003, and it was officially unveiled during their E3
conference on May 11, 2004. The system was released in Japan on December
12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005 and in Europe and
Australia on September 1, 2005. The console has since seen two major
redesigns, with new features including a smaller size, more internal
memory, a better quality LCD screen and a lighter weight.
The newest home console in the PlayStation family, as well as Sony's entry in the seventh-generation of consoles, the PlayStation 3 (PS3) was launched in November 2006. It utilizes a unique processing architecture, the Cell microprocessor, a proprietary technology developed by Sony in conjunction with Toshiba and IBM. The graphics processing unit, the RSX 'Reality Synthesizer', was co-developed by Nvidia and Sony. Several variations of the PS3 have been released, each with slight hardware and software differences, each denoted by the varying size of the included hard disk drive.
The newest handheld console in the PlayStation family is the PlayStation Vita. It is the successor to the PlayStation Portable as part of the PlayStation brand of gaming devices. It was released in Japan and parts of Asia on December 17, 2011and in Europe, Australia and North America on February 22, 2012.
The newest home console in the PlayStation family, as well as Sony's entry in the seventh-generation of consoles, the PlayStation 3 (PS3) was launched in November 2006. It utilizes a unique processing architecture, the Cell microprocessor, a proprietary technology developed by Sony in conjunction with Toshiba and IBM. The graphics processing unit, the RSX 'Reality Synthesizer', was co-developed by Nvidia and Sony. Several variations of the PS3 have been released, each with slight hardware and software differences, each denoted by the varying size of the included hard disk drive.
The newest handheld console in the PlayStation family is the PlayStation Vita. It is the successor to the PlayStation Portable as part of the PlayStation brand of gaming devices. It was released in Japan and parts of Asia on December 17, 2011and in Europe, Australia and North America on February 22, 2012.
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