PlayStation (Japanese: プレイステーション, Hepburn: Pureisutēshon, formally abbreviated as PS) is a video game brand that contains five house computer game consoles, two handhelds, a libraries, as well as a smartphone, in addition to an online solution and several magazines. The brand is generated by Sony Interactive Amusement, a division of Sony; the initial PlayStation console was released in Japan in December 1994, and also worldwide the following year.The original console in the series was the first console of any type of kind to deliver over 100 million systems, doing so in under a years. Its successor, the PlayStation 2, was launched in 2000. The PlayStation 2 is the very successful home console to day, having actually gotten to over 155 million devices marketed by the end of 2012. Sony s following console, the PlayStation 3, was launched in 2006, offering over 87.4 million units by March 2017. Sony s following console, the PlayStation 4, was launched in 2013, selling a million systems wi...