PlayStation (Japanese: プレイステーション, Hepburn: Pureisutēshon, formally abbreviated as PS) is a computer game brand that contains 5 house video game gaming consoles, 2 handhelds, a media center, and a mobile phone, as well as an on the internet service as well as numerous magazines. The brand is generated by Sony Interactive Amusement, a department of Sony; the first PlayStation console was launched in Japan in December 1994, as well as worldwide the adhering to year.The initial console in the series was the first console of any kind to ship over 100 million systems, doing so in under a decade. Its successor, the PlayStation 2, was launched in 2000. The PlayStation 2 is the very popular home console to date, having reached over 155 million units marketed by the end of 2012. Sony s following console, the PlayStation 3, was released in 2006, selling over 87.4 million systems by March 2017. Sony s next console, the PlayStation 4, was released in 2013, offering a million units within a day, end...