Sony Interactive Entertainment filed a bunch of trademarks in Japan with “PS6,” PS7,” “PS8,” “PS9,” and “PS10” for what appears to be a means of securing the names for future PlayStation console names.
Here we have the second part of the Heisei era retrospective, covering Heisei 11-20 (1999-2008). These years also marked the trend of Japanese gamers moving to favor handhelds instead.
Today, April 30, 2019, marks the last day of the Heisei period in Japan before it officially goes into the new Reiwa period. Sony wants to know what PS games would you like to share with the future Reiwa generation.
The PlayStation 2 first released exactly 19 years ago today in Japan back in March 4, 2000, as the successor to the original PlayStation console, and it still stands as the all-time best-selling console.
From now through April 2019, there’s an awesome ‘90s video game-themed exhibit going on at the Skip City Sai-no-Kuni Visual Plaza with an impressive collection of games going to the early ‘00s.
At NYCC 2018 this weekend, it was announced that Capcom’s Okami had won its second Guinness World Record, for “Most critically acclaimed video game starring an animal character.”
It is truly the end of a long-lived era, as Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia announced that it has ended repair services for the PlayStation 2 console and peripherals as of August 31, 2018.
Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida has been with the company since the start of PlayStation, and he recently looked back at some of the troubled launches they had with PS2 and PS3.
