PlayStation and 3D console gaming
PlayStation y el videojuego 3D en CD
- Date
- 1994 · confidence high
- Place
- Sony Computer Entertainment, Tokyo, Japan
- Credited to
- Ken Kutaragi (Sony)
- People
- 👤 Ken Kutaragi1950–
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A console with hardware-based 3D graphics and games on cheap-to-manufacture CDs, aimed at young adults. It turned the video game into mass adult entertainment and made Sony the sector's leader.
What it led to
- 3D video gaming and blockbuster productions (Final Fantasy VII, GTA)
- The console war and Microsoft's entry (Xbox)
- The demand for GPUs that financed Nvidia
Built on
- Compact disc1982
- Nintendo Famicom/NES1983
- Nintendo NES
- 3D accelerators
Made possible
- Graphics processing unit (GeForce 256)1999
- 3D open-world games
- Xbox