Sony Playstation Line (1994-Present)

Sony Playstation Sony released the original Playstation (seen here) in December 1994 in Japan and September 1995 in North America. It was a fifth-generation home console, and faced fierce competition from Nintendo 64 and SEGA Saturn. The console sold for a price of $299, and proved to be popular with it's huge game library. In total, 3061 games were produced for the Playstation, with a total of 967 million units sold between all games! In less than a decade, it became the first video game console to sell over 100 million units, and sold a total of 102 million units by the time it was discontinued in 2006.  Source: Retro Games Plus  Playstation 2 The Sony Playstation 2 was Sony's second video game console and was released in October 2000 in North America. It was a sixth-generation console and primarily competed with the Dreamcast, Gamecube, and XBOX. It was announced in 1999, and provided backwards-compatibility for the original Playstation's DualShock controller. It received mostly pos