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Sony partners with Nintendo to create CD drive for a Nintendo Console
They fell out because of Nintendo's fear of Sony becoming competition. -
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Playstation Timeline
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Sony release Playstation 1 just in time for Christmas
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Playstation 1 released in the U.S.
Also Playstation 1 reaches just over a million sales -
PS1 has sold over 40 million consoles
In total that is $8.3 billion -
THE PS2 IS RELEASED!!!!
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PS2 drives Sega out of Console Business
PS2 sales reached 80 million. Sega Dreamcast sales dwindles. Sega leaves console business. Nintendo is Sony's only competition -
Microsoft launches the Xbox
This means more competition for the PS2 -
By the end of 2003 every 1 in 10 people in the UK had a PS console
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The PSP is released
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PS2 becomes the quickest to reach 100,000,000 console sales
The PS1 was first -
PS3 IS LAUNCHED!!!
The XBOX 360 came out a year before giving them a yearlong headstart -
Due to it's expensive price the sales of the PS3 lowered and the PS2 outsold it
The PS3 is now fourth behind the XBOX 360, the PS2 and the Wii -
Ps3 sold it's tenth million unit
The PS2 sold double that in that time frame -
PS4 is released
