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PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment.Launched in November 2006, PSN was originally conceived for the PlayStation video game consoles, but soon extended to encompass smartphones, tablets, Blu-ray players and high-definition televisions.
Sony announced that all original PlayStation games would support the feature, but they had to be digital, not disc-based, media from the PS3's internal harddrive. [6] [7] This later changed by the end of 2007, when a firmware update made it so any original PlayStation game was compatible with Remote Play, even disc-based ones. [8]
PlayStation (Japanese: プレイステーション, Hepburn: Pureisutēshon, officially abbreviated as PS) is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines.
This is a list of PlayStation (PS1) games digitally re-released on the PlayStation Store in NA territories. These are the original games software emulated.At their initial release in December 2006, downloadable PS1 titles were only available to play on PlayStation Portable (PSP), [1] but titles became available for PlayStation 3 (PS3) in April 2007, [2] for PlayStation Vita on August 28, 2012 ...
The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the service.
PlayStation Store (PS Store) is a digital distribution service for users of Sony's PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 game consoles via PlayStation Network. The store offers a range of downloadable content both for purchase and available free of charge.
The PlayStation 3 system software is the updatable firmware and operating system of the PlayStation 3. The base operating system used by Sony for the PlayStation 3 is a fork of both FreeBSD and NetBSD known internally as CellOS or GameOS. [4] [1] It uses XrossMediaBar as its graphical shell.
The PlayStation TV (abbreviated to PS TV), known in Japan and other parts of Asia as the PlayStation Vita TV or PS Vita TV, is a microconsole, [14] [15] [16] and a non-handheld variant of the PlayStation Vita handheld game console. It was released in Japan on November 14, 2013, [3] and Europe and Australia on November 14, 2014. [4]