Origins
PlayStation was the brainchild of Ken Kutaragi, a Sonyexecutive who managed one of the company's hardware engineering divisions and was later dubbed "The Father of the

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PlayStation
The original PlayStation, released in Japan on December 3, 1994, was the first of the ubiquitous PlayStation series of console and hand-held game devices. It has included successor consoles and upgrades including the

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PlayStation Portable
The PlayStation Portable(PSP) was Sony's first handheld console to compete with Nintendo's DS console. The original model (PSP-1000) was released

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PocketStation
The PocketStation was a Memory Card peripheral by Sony Computer Entertainment for the original PlayStation. Categorized by Sony as a combination of a Memory Card and a miniature personal digital assistant.

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Each console has a variety of games. The PlayStation 2, PSX and PlayStation 3exhibit backwards compatibility and can play most of the games released on the original PlayStation. Some of these games can also be played on the PlayStation Portable but they must be

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PlayStation 2 online service
Online gaming on PlayStation consoles first started in July 2001 with the release of PlayStation 2's unnamed online service in Japan. Later in August 2002 saw its release in North America, followed by the European release in June

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Early PlayStation controllers
Released in 1994, the PlayStation control pad was the first controller made for the original

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