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The Playstation is a game console that was released by Sony Computer Entertainment back in December 1994. The Play station was the first of its type and because of its popularity there has been many successor and similar type consoles produced.
It seems that every successful game and console will have some fans that will try to copy and pirate it. A number of hacked units were sold on the secondary game market and proved to be popular because they were able to run multi-region games as well as CD-R copies of games. The individuals that sold them were able to sell them for double the normal price because it allowed gamers to save money on pirated games.
The PlayStation 1 was launched in July 2000. Sony redesigned this console and made it smaller than the original PlayStation video game console.
The PlayStation 2 is smartly made and backward compatible with its predecessor, which means it can play almost all PlayStation games.
PlayStation 3 was officially marketed in capitals as the PLAYSTATION 3 and was commonly abbreviated as PS3. This console is the third home video console made by Sony Computer Entertainment and it was successor to the PlayStation 2 in the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 main competitors are Nintendo’s Wii and the Microsoft’s Xbox 360. These are known as the 7th generation of video game consoles.
