Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. , or SCEI , is a subsidiary company of Sony Corporation specialized in the industry of the Video game and founded in 1993 with Tokyo, with the Japan. Known hitherto under the name of Sony Electronic Publishing , the company develops, produced and markets game consoles and Video games with and for the range PlayStation. Since its introduction, it is one of the main actors of this market.

Ken Kutaragi, regarded as the creator of the PlayStation, chaired the company until 2007. Kaz Hirai succeeded to him. SCEI is divided into several subsidiary companies covering the main markets: the Asia with SCE Japan and SCE Korea, the North America with SCE America, the Europe and the Oceania with SCE Europe.

Consoles of living room

PlayStation

The PlayStation, so known under the name of PSone, is the first console of Sony Computer Entertainment. Launched in 1994 in Japan and 1995 to North America and Europe, this console of fifth generation took a lead in the market in front of its principal competitors of Nintendo and Sega. With more than 100 million produced units, it is one of most important successes of the Histoire of the video game consoles. PlayStation, which uses the format CD-ROM, took part in the generalization of the 3D in the video games and in the democratization of this leisure.

PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2, also called PS2, is a game console of sixth generation launched in 2000. She was a success more fulgurating that its elder, with 120 million units sold throughout the world. Its sales remained confidential and the system was not marketed apart from the Japanese archipelago.

PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3, or PS3, is the third console of living room of Sony, launched in 2006 with the Japan and in North America and 2007 in Europe. Conceived like a system of digital entertainment, this console of seventh generation is equipped in series with the reader high-definition Blu-ray and with a Hard drive. With the PlayStation Network, she proposes a online service more packed than her elder. The PS3 integrates the main frame Cell and the graphics processor RSX.

Portable consoles

PocketStation

The PocketStation is a miniature video game console put on sale in December 1998, only in Japan. It acts as accessory for the PlayStation, following the example VMU of Sega for the Dreamcast. The compatible plays can be downloaded on the apparatus once connected to the slit of Memory card of console (but also at the infra-red bases located in several stores of video games). The Multijoueur was possible thanks to an infra-red connection. The software Tamagotchi was available for the Téléchargement in the stores of video games.

Portable PlayStation

After its various successes on the market of the consoles of living room, Sony decided to launch out on the market of the portable consoles with the PlayStation Portable, or PSP. The console was revealed in May 2004 with the occcasion of the Electronic Entertainment Expo and was launched in 2004 in Japan and 2005 to North America and Europe. PlayStation Portable is conceived like a portable platform of entertainment making it possible to play but also to read vidéos, to listen to music, to visualize digital photographs or to sail on Internet. In the place of traditional the cartridges, the PSP employs a format owner called Universal Media Disc (UMD). The apparatus is also compatible with the Memory Stick, of the memory cards which make it possible to safeguard and transfer the multimedia contents between the PSP and other digital devices. PlayStation Portable is also compatible with the PlayStation 3.

Linux

In 2002, Sony marketed its first Operating system for a video game console, following the experience gained with the Net Yaroze. The kit transforms the PlayStation 2 into a Ordinateur with whole share functioning under Linux. The mixture of hardware and software costs approximately 175 Canadian dollars launching.

The PlayStation 3 can receive the operating system Linux via the distribution Yellow Dog Linux, available in remote loading in its version 5.0. It is expected that other distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora or Debian are proposed in compatible version PS3.

The operating system of PSP functions with a system Linux embarked personalized. In November 2005, Sony created the Alliance Linux with IBM and Philips.

Video games

Sony Computer Entertainment develop and/or publish many Video games in almost all the existing kinds; either by the means of studios of development owners, or with the liking of association with independent studios. Among the creators of the most known plays working for the firm, there is Kazunori Yamauchi, Fumito Ueda, David Jaffe or Keiichiro Toyama.

Plays headlights

The series Gran Turismo is the most important popular success of the company. Ico , Shadow off the Colossus or PaRappa the Rapper counts them among the prettiest critical successes.

Studios of development

The arrival of Sony Computer Entertainment on the market was accompanied by an important policy of creation of studios of development, as with Polyphony DIGITAL in 1998, and of repurchase, as with the English editor Psygnosis in 1993. It is undoubtedly the company which has the most development teams in the world.

From the 1ier September 2005, the whole of the studios of development of the company were gathered behind the banner of SCE Worldwide Studios (SCE WWS). Under the direction of Phil Harrison, already executive vice-president of SCE Europe in load of the development, SCE WWS is responsible for creative, technical and strategic management of the whole of the software developments of the group. The purpose of this strategic choice is to reinforce, coordinate and extend the activities of development, by controlling the development costs more and by accelerating the creative process.

Studios owners ( first party )

  • Sony Computer Entertainment Japan (SCEJ)
  • Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA)
    • SCE Foster City Studio
    • SCE Santa Monica Studio
    • SCE San Diego Studio
    • Interactive SCE Bend Studio
    • Naughty Dog
    • Zipper
  • Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE)
  • Sony Computer Entertainment Korea (SCEK)

Associated studios ( second party )

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