Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was the best-selling game on the console.
Some of the most popular series started from PlayStation 2, such as Kingdom Hearts, God of War, and Devil May Cry. Some of the following titles were released exclusively for the console, Grand Theft Auto, Final Fantasy, and Metal Gear Solid. The PlayStation 2 also supports PlayStation memory cards and controllers, although original PlayStation memory cards will only work with original PlayStation games and the controllers may not support all functions, such as analogue buttons, for PlayStation 2 games. Also, the console can play audio CDs and DVD movies and is backwards compatible with almost all original PlayStation games.
Software for the PlayStation 2 was distributed primarily on DVD-ROM, with some titles being published on CD-ROM. The hardware uses the Emotion Engine CPU, a custom-designed processor based on the MIPS architecture with a floating-point performance of 6.2 GFLOPS, and the custom-designed Graphics Synthesizer GPU, with a fillrate of 2.4 gigapixels/second, capable of rendering up to 75 million polygons per second. Sales of the console, games, and accessories pulled in $250 million on the first day, beating the $97 million made on the first day of the Dreamcast. Soon after the first sixth-generation console was released, Sega’s Dreamcast, Sony unveiled the PlayStation 2 at the Tokyo Game Show on September 20, 1999, and released in July 2011.
The last PS One consoles were sold at the end of 2006 shortly after it was officially discontinued, for a total of 102 million units shipped since its launch eleven years earlier and less than a year before the debut of the PlayStation 3. Sony also released a version with a 5″ LCD screen compatible with the console, calling it a Combo pack.
The PS One model also had additional changes, including the removal of the parallel and serial ports from the rear of the console, and the removal of the reset button. The PS One is fully compatible with all PlayStation software, but compatibility with peripherals may vary. It was the highest-selling console through the end of the year, outselling all other consoles, including Sony’s own PlayStation 2. They replaced the original grey color with white and named it appropriately to avoid confusion with its successor, PlayStation 2. Six years later, a redesigned, slim version was released under the name PS One, having the same hardware specifications.
Games for the PlayStation continued to sell until 23 of March 2006, were Sony ended the production of both PlayStation consoles and games. Sony released a few peripherals for the console such as a PlayStation mouse, an Analog Joystick and a Link Cable to connect two consoles to play compatible multiplayer games on separate consoles.Īs of March 2006, PlayStation sold 102.49 million units worldwide. Besides the console and controller, the memory cards were valuable back then for saving your game progress, and they came out in a total of 1 megabyte. The original version was released alongside the console on December 3, 1994. The PlayStation controller is the first controller released by Sony using geometric shapes of a green triangle, a red circle, a blue cross, and a pink square. A wild variety of games were offered for the original PlayStation over its 11-year run and some of the best-selling games on PlayStation are Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy VII, Crash Bandicoot, and Tekken 3. By the end of 1996, almost 400 games were being developed for the PlayStation, while 200 and 60 games were for the Saturn and the Nintendo 64. Sony’s approach to third-party developers was a big part of the PlayStation’s success. PlayStation launched in Japan after the release of its rival Sega Saturn and the sales began with a stunning success with long lines in stores, selling 100,000 units on the first day, and then two million units after six months on the market. After that partnership fell apart, Sony went on to release a console of its own. The product was announced under the name “Play Station” in May 1991 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in a corporation with Nintendo. Sony entered the market of consoles back in 1994 with the release of the PlayStation.