Sony’s first attempt at a console is one of the best gaming products of all time. It put Sony on the map in gaming land, ready to take over the world with the PlayStation brand for the last two decades.
The PlayStation 2 may be fondly remembered while the PS4 Pro is the pinnacle of console gaming right now, but there is a lot of great stuff about that first console we should remember too.
TechRadar readers have voted the original PlayStation one of the best consoles of all time, so here’s why we love Sony’s early ’90s attempt at taking over your living room.
Back to 1994
The launch of the original PlayStation was elongated – it came out in Japan a whole nine months before the rest of the world got to play it, but it managed to have a life lasting over 11 years.
Launching in the west in 1995, games were still being made for the console in 2006. That’s an incredible legacy and meant PS1 games were still being made only a year before the launch of the PS3.
The original PlayStation had tough competition too – it had to compete with the new Sega Saturn and Atari …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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