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SCPH-5500 — 1994

PlayStation

The console that changed everything
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01 — Origin

Born from
a broken deal.

Sony and Nintendo
split ways.
The world gained
something unexpected.

02 — Form

Grey.
Perfect.

Ken Kutaragi's
ash-grey shell.
Industrial design
raised to art.

03 — Power

33 MHz.
A universe.

The R3000 processor
brought real-time 3D
into every living
room on earth.

04 — Legacy

102 million
stories.

The best-selling console
of its generation.
Every memory card
holds a childhood.

05 — Icon

Thirty years
later.

The startup sound.
The logo on screen.
Some moments
never age.

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Technical Blueprint

Anatomy of an icon.

Hover each component to explore
the engineering behind the legend.

SCPH-5500 — TOP VIEW — ACTUAL LAYOUT SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT © 1996
REAR PANEL PARALLEL I/O SERIAL I/O AV MULTI OUT AC IN SONY PlayStation RESET POWER OPEN (DISC EJECT) 1 MEMORY CARD CONTROLLER PORT 1 2 MEMORY CARD CONTROLLER PORT 2 CW33300 IC101 CPU GTE · MDEC · COP0 CXD8514Q IC102 GPU 1 MB VRAM 2MB EDO IC103 RAM CXD2922BQ IC106 SPU 512 KB SPU RAM CD-ROM — KSM-440BAM RESET BUTTON POWER BUTTON OPEN (DISC EJECT) CONTROLLER PORTS MEMORY CARD SLOTS PARALLEL I/O SERIAL I/O AV MULTI OUT AC IN CPU — IC101 GPU — IC102 SPU — IC106
— hover any
component
to inspect

— documented fact

Processor
33.87 MHz

MIPS R3000A. The power that made
real-time 3D possible.

Launch Date
Dec 3, 1994

Japan came first.
The rest of the world waited.

Units Sold
102.49M

The best-selling console
of the nineties. No contest.

Titles in Catalogue
7,918

From Metal Gear Solid to Spyro.
An entire generation.

Before the PlayStation,
games were just games.

After, they were experiences. Worlds. Emotions
that had no name until you lived them.
That is what a truly iconic object does:
it redefines what was possible to imagine.