Retrospective available as a Physical Book.
It’s a helluva month for PlayStation to release a tome celebrating its 30-year legacy. And, like it or not, it has been an undeniable and indelible three decades for the first-time console maker. Sony stepped into the market in 1996 and not only took on the veterans at their own game, but beat them. Soundly.
PlayStation redefined the entire industry. It brought gaming to the biggest audience it had ever had to that point. It took gaming mainstream, made it “cool” for celebrities to endorse what had then been tediously dubbed a “nerd” pastime, and, from the PS1’s launch onwards, PlayStation continued to grow as a globally recognised brand, synonymous with gaming and often considered the flagship platform for all of the industry’s biggest releases.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
Retrospective available as a Physical Book.
It’s a helluva month for PlayStation to release a tome celebrating its 30-year legacy. And, like it or not, it has been an undeniable and indelible three decades for the first-time console maker. Sony stepped into the market in 1996 and not only took on the veterans at their own game, but beat them. Soundly.
PlayStation redefined the entire industry. It brought gaming to the biggest audience it had ever had to that point. It took gaming mainstream, made it “cool” for celebrities to endorse what had then been tediously dubbed a “nerd” pastime, and, from the PS1’s launch onwards, PlayStation continued to grow as a globally recognised brand, synonymous with gaming and often considered the flagship platform for all of the industry’s biggest releases.
Read the full article on timeextension.com