Games consoles were very well
known about by everyone at this point but little did they know it will start a
war and it all starts with a Japanese electronics company called Sony.
Sony
started with the PlayStation (also known as PS or PS1) that was released in
1994 in japan and then later on in 1995 in Europe and North America. The
PlayStation did very well for its time and made a lot of sales but it was not
until later that they made a big hit in the games industry with the PS2. The
PS2 (PlayStation 2), was released in 2000 in japan, North America, Europe. It
was a huge hit all over the world braking sales records by selling over 155
million units. This crush there competitors like Sage and Nintendo.
The
PS2 did very well because it could do many things that other console could not
like play movies and music CDs. But one big thing the PS2 had that others could
not was allow online play with other people from the world this was a big hit
with people but like every great things it had to have some problems with it
and this left people getting very angry. This is where a new console comes in
the Xbox.
The
Xbox came out in 2001 and was PS2 biggest completion because of one of its best
fetcher Xbox live. This supported the user if there was a software problem and
they did it very well unlike the PS2. This started to make think of
which console was better the PS2 or Xbox. This started a small flam war between
people saying the pros and cons of each console. This went on till the next
generation of console came and only 2 were most waited for, the PS3
(PlayStation 3) and the Xbox 360.
The PS3 came out in 2006 but
the Xbox 360 came out in 2005 and this gave then a bit of a lead on Sony and
they had now in provide on their Xbox live but this time you now had to pay
subscription to get access to the service. This did not make a big problem to
many people but did stop some from playing online with other people because
this is where gaming was going. When the PS3 came out, they released. They had
made their own vision of Xbox live called the PlayStation network and the one big
thing that made it so great is that it was free, people who could not pay for
the Xbox subscription started to sell their Xbox’s to pay for a PS3.
In 2011 something very big
happened. Sony was attack by hackers who stole over 77 million accounts and this
top many people from playing online. This was a big blow to Sony and the PS3.
The problem was fixed after some time but the damage it left was big, Sony
would recover from it after time.
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