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| Headquarters | Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Products | PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Classic, PlayStation 5 |
| Website | http://www.sony.com/ |
Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社 Sonī Kabushiki Kaisha) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game consoles, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its name is derived from sonus, the Latin word for sound.
Video games
In 1994, Sony launched its first video game console, the PlayStation – which gained 61% of global console sales and broke the long-standing lead in the market held by Nintendo. Sony followed up with the PlayStation 2 in 2000, which became the most successful console of all time at over 150 million units sold as of 2011. In 2006, Sony released the PlayStation 3. In 2013, the PlayStation 4 was released. The PlayStation 5 - the current iteration of the PlayStation console - was released in 2020.
In 2004, Sony extended the brand to portable games with the PlayStation Portable. A second portable video game console, the PlayStation Vita was released in 2011 and 2012.