The original PlayStation console is absolutely legendary and its one was quite arguably the most popular game system of the 90’s. The Sony PlayStation console came out 30 years ago in 1994 and was designed compete with the likes of Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis during the mid 90’s. The original PlayStation console was released the same year as the Sega Saturn which was arguably a more superior game system. Despite, the Sega Saturn having a shorter loading time and better 2D gameplay the PS1 console ended up dominating its competition in countries like America from the mid to late 90’s. The original PlayStation console had legendary video games including Final Fantasy VII, Gran Turismo, Tekken 3, Tomb Raider, Silent Hill and many others. The PS1 was almost untouchable in relation to sales and managed to outshine the likes of Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn and Dreamcast during the second half of the 90’s decade. While the graphics for the PS1 looked significantly inferior compared to what we see in today’s generation of gaming; the PlayStation console played a significant role in the evolution of gaming favoring 3D gaming over 2D.

If Sony never entered the console wars 30 years ago the landscape of the gaming world would be completely different. Without Sony Nintendo would still probably be the most dominant entity in relation to creating video game consoles. If the PS1 was never made there would be no PS2, PS3, PS4 or PS5. The racing genre of gaming became extremely popular during the 2000’s because of Sony’s Gran Turismo game for PS1 which sold more than 10 million copies. The PS1 console from ’94 was also the platform where the Final Fantasy series had reached its peak in popularity with FFVII which also reached over 10 million copies in sales. The original PlayStation console was mainly designed to appeal to young adults but it seemed like everyone including children were obsessed with having one. The original PlayStation console thrived in popularity during the second half the 90’s mainly due to the enormous success of Sony’s first party games. It should also noted that the PS1 the main platform for third-party games to stand out on in America especially after Square Enix had seemingly cut-ties with Nintendo during the mid 90’s. Even though, Nintendo & Sony was supposed to collaborate to release a console together during the mid 90’s the fallout between the two company was probably the best thing to happen tech giant in relation to the console wars.