Sony PlayStation historia(parte)

julio 06, 2019

Sony PlayStation historia(parte)

Sony PlayStation

No one trusted too much Sony and its new video game system, back in 1993 Sony was a complete stranger in the console market.

The Japanese company had already tried before entering the growing and profitable world of video games working initially for Nintendo.

Sony designed one of the key components of Super Nintendo, the brilliant sound chip. Not only that, both companies also agreed on the design and manufacture of the CD drive. However, Nintendo finally broke with Sony in favor of Philips, its eternal competitor. The picture seemed black for Sony.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Sony continued with the contraption, but already as an independent console.

The Japanese did not want to fail this time. They secured a hardware to the height contracting to Ken Kutaragi, and for the software they were made by 6000 million pesetas with the acclaimed English company Psygnosis.

The rest is history. PlayStation was a success, and even today it remains the most recognizable brand when we talk about videogames

Games

If you have occasion, do not miss:

Saga Crash Bandicoot

Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VIII

Saga Residen Evil

Tekken Saga

Rival Schools

Soul Blade

Tomb Raider Saga

Metal Gear Solid

Alien Trilogy

Saga Ridge Racer

FIFA Saga

Alundra

Medievil

Gran Turismo

Colin McRae

Saga Need for Speed

Technical characteristics

CPU: R3000A RISC at 33 Mhz

GEOMETRY ENGINE: 1.5 million flat polygons, 500,000 with effects

GPU: 180,000 polygons / s with texture mapping

RAM: 2 megabytes, 1 megabyte of video, 512 kilobytes for sound

Graphics: 16.7 million colors, resolutions from 256x240 to 640x480

Sound: 24 ADPCM stereo channels

The hardware of the Playstation can be considered as one of the most successful in history, and as one of the most powerful for its time of departure (November 1994): 32-bit RISC chip at 33MHz, 30 MIPS, capable graphics processor 500,000 textured polygons and screen handling up to 360,000, graphic modes up to 640x480, 16.7 million colors, Playback video mode (of similar quality to VHS), ADPCM quality sound chip ...

Net Yaroze was a system with the same appearance of a normal unit, but black and in which you can try versions of games in development and of any TV system, either NTSC or PAL. As expected, Sony only provided it to the programming groups so that they had total freedom when they programmed.

Undoubtedly, these technical characteristics placed it above the Saturn of Sega in most cases, and the Nintendo 64 in more sections than Nintendo would have liked ...

As for peripherals, one of the most successful and commented was the control, for its design and its number of buttons, and for being absolutely manageable when playing. This command has had its renewals, and after releasing Nintendo Rumble Pack (pack for control of the Nintendo 64 vibrate), Sony took out its Dual Shock, which had the same properties and, of course, also had two analog sticks in addition to digital.

The Playstation has other common peripherals, such as mice, pistols, flyers, memory cartridges to record games, briefcases, adapters for multiple players, link cables to connect systems, etc. but the most interesting, and that did not reach Europe, was Pocketstation, something similar to the VMS of the Dreamcast: electronic agenda, portable videogame system ... Another remarkable is the signal adapter to be able to see the Playstation on the monitor of a computer.