Playstation 1

he PlayStation (プレイステーション Pureisutēshon^?), officially abbreviated as PS, at the time referred to as PSX (not to be confused with the PSX console) and also known asPS1 is a 32-bit video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, 1994,^[1] with Western releases in September 1995. The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. As part of the fifth-generation of gaming, it primarily competed with theNintendo 64 and the Sega Saturn. In 2000, a re-designed, "slim" version was released, called the PSone, replacing the original grey console, and also being renamed to avoid confusion with its successor, the PlayStation 2.

The PlayStation was the first "computer entertainment platform" to ship 100 million units, which it had reached 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch.^[8] The last PSone units were sold on Christmas 2004 before it was finally discontinued, for a total of 102 million units shipped since its launch 10 years earlier. Games continued to sell until Sony ceased production of PlayStation games on March 23, 2006; over 11 years after it was released,^[9] and just over half a year before the release of the PlayStation 3.