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The PlayStation Turns 20

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-now-you-feel-old dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The 3rd of December marks an auspicious date in gaming history: 20 years ago today, the very first PlayStation went on sale in Japan. In that time, Sony has successfully muscled its way into the gaming scene, and seen off a few rivals as well. In a new retrospective, a writer looks back at how Sony's console series has changed gaming, from introducing the DVD and the Blu-ray disc to innovations like the second screen PocketStation and the still untapped power of Remote Play and Gaikai game streaming.

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  1. It's also a story about vendor lock-in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Some of my favorite games (although they're on PS2) still can't be played on modern PC because of the successfull Sony lock-in.