(as of December 2019) It comprises an online virtual market, the PlayStation Store, which allows the purchase and download of games and various forms of multimedia, a subscription-based online service known as PlayStation Plus and a social gaming networking service called PlayStation Home, which had over 41 million users worldwide at the time of its closure in March 2015. The PlayStation Network is an online service with about 110 million registered users (as of June 2013) and over 103 million active users monthly.

The main series of controllers utilized by the PlayStation series is the DualShock, which is a line of vibration-feedback gamepads, having sold 28 million units by June 2008. Other hardware released as part of the PlayStation series includes the PSX, a digital video recorder which was integrated with the PlayStation and PlayStation 2, though it was short-lived due to its high price and was never released outside Japan, as well as a Bravia television set which has an integrated PlayStation 2.

PlayStation TV is a microconsole and a non-portable variant of the PlayStation Vita handheld game console. Its successor, the PlayStation Vita (PSVita), which launched in Japan in December 2011 and in most other major territories in February 2012, sold over four million units by January 2013. The first handheld console in the series, the PlayStation Portable (PSP), sold a total of 80 million units worldwide by November 2013. The latest console in the series, the PlayStation 5, was released in 2020 and sold 10 million units in its first 249 days, unseating its predecessor as the fastest-selling PlayStation console to-date.

Sony's next console, the PlayStation 4, was released in 2013, selling a million units within a day, becoming the fastest selling console in history. Sony's next console, the PlayStation 3, was released in 2006, selling over 87.4 million units by March 2017. Its successor, the PlayStation 2, was released in 2000 it is the best-selling home console to date, having reached over 155 million units sold by the end of 2012.

The original console in the series was the first console of any type to ship over 100 million units, doing so in under a decade. The brand is produced by Sony Interactive Entertainment, a division of Sony the first PlayStation console was released in Japan in December 1994, and worldwide the following year. 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. ( PlayStation Productions films and TV series)

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