Launch in America was 299 dollars, well below the 399 of its main competitor, Sega Saturn, sweep completely. Sony opted to lower the price of their console below cost. Jump to Europe and the United States was just as successful. Titles such as Gran Turismo, Metal Gear or Final Fantasy are fundamental history of video games. Developers take too many economic risks creating cartridges for Sega or Nintendo Sony, on other hand, offers all the facilities to be able to count on a varied catalogue of games. The key was in facilities offered by the company to video game developers, enthusiastic about great technical possibilities, three dimensions and CD. Sony launched the PlayStation in Japan on December 3 1994. Until 1993, Company would not have a section for video games, Sony Computer Entertaiment. Collaboration, in the end, was essential for the production of CDs. The Companies derive project, with Kutaragi to head, to Sony Music not to be responsible for unpredictable consequences of bet. However, Kutaragi's obstinacy caused the company to move forward. Sony's dome, reluctant from the outset to enter the video game market, was intended to end adventure here. Ken Kutaragi, who at that time was Sony Computer He move, along with his research, from one lab to another, until Teruo Tokunaka took him to see then-president Norio Ohga to expose his idea.
The video game giant, however, broke with Japanese technology, then neophyte in industry because it felt that it was too much in control and benefits derived from sale of CD games. Nintendo agreed with Sony, in the late 1980s, to develop for its successful Super Nintendo appendix to incorporate games on CD, in addition to traditional cartridge. It all started with a broken contract with Nintendo at the end of the decade of 1980. PlayStation 1 was Release on Decemin Japan, 3 September, 1995 in the US and Septemin Europe.