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Fujisawa, Takafumi (5 December 2025). "How Takafumi Fujisawa Created the Original PlayStation's Startup Sound". PlayStation 5 Blog (Interview). Interviewed by Jeff Cork. Sony Interactive Entertainment. Retrieved 23 December 2025. {{cite interview}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
Cole, George (March 19, 2021). "Sony plays for millions in games gamble". The Observer. p. 33 – via Newspapers.com.
https://archive.org/details/21_20191215/23/page/n9/mode/2up (hardware retrospective)
Cope, Nigel (April 13, 1996). "Sega extends price war with Sony". The Independent. p. 20. Archived from the original on September 25, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

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Game Libarary

Good job on the game library section. I'm surprised Mortal Kombat 3 and NFL Gameday aren't mentioned. Outside of Sonic, the Mega Drive's popularity was built on Sports games and Mortal Kombat. So when Sony made NFL Gameday and got a 32-bit exclusive rights to MK3, it really helped Sony defeat Sega in 1995.

game numbers

although the article lead states that 3061 games were released for the console, i can't seem to find a reliable source supporting this. in fact, as of this writing, the targeted "List of PlayStation games (A–L)" article states that there are 4105 games in wikipedia's list of games for the console (which spans two articles). the article body had actually stated that 7918 games were released, before this number was removed from the article about a week ago, apparently because that value counted releases of a game in different regions as different games. since there appears to be disagreement on exactly how many games were released for the console, would it be better to avoid giving an exact number? for example, "A total of 3,061 PlayStation games were released" could be replaced with "Thousands of PlayStation games were released".

i am also unsure about the accuracy of the value of "967 million" in the lead. this doesn't seem to be supported by the article body, which mentions the value of "962 million" instead. note that the cited source is actually from sony itself, and the number is based on sales up to and including the first quarter of 2007. would rewording the statement to use an approximation be more prudent here as well? one possibility is to replace "967 million units" with "nearly a billion game units". note that i added "game" in my suggestion to more clearly distinguish game units from console units. dying (talk) 12:59, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

franchise list

is there a reason why, in the list of franchises in the article lead, the franchises are listed in that particular order? if there is, i was unable to figure it out. if there isn't, i would recommend sorting them alphabetically.

also, is there a reason why wipeout is included in this list? it looks like none of the games in the wipeout series appears in the "List of best-selling PlayStation video games" article, which includes 123 games, while all the other franchises have at least one entry in the top 20. skimming through that list, i would have thought that dragon warrior and tony hawk's both would easily have been more worthy of inclusion. dying (talk) 12:59, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sales

I want to add sales figures for the 5 consoles. Could you give advice whether to add or not. Thelifeofan413 (talk) 13:25, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Change the description of the photo of the PlayStation prototype "A photo of the only known SNES-based PlayStation prototype" to mention that it is one of two known prototypes since it is now inaccurate to say there is only one.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/playstation-co-creator-ken-kutaragi-still-has-a-nintendo-playstation-prototype-which-is-wild-to-witness/

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ken-kutaragi-has-a-nintendo-playstation-in-his-closet-its-emerged/ BunnL (talk) 05:00, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]