Sony

Sony



Sony is a multinational corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game consoles, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Sony's principal business operations include Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Ericsson, and Sony Financial Holdings.



__History__ After World War 2, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in a bombed-out building in Tokyo. The next year, he was joined by his colleague Akio Morita and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. The company built Japan's first tape recorder called the Type-G. It became the most successful tape recorder out of all the U.S tape recorders, including the ones from Texas Instruments, the first creators of the tape recorder. Then, while trying to find a name for the company, Ibuka came with the name Sony, which came from the latin word "sonus", which means "sonic" or "sound".

After making the tape recorder, Sony started to make other electronical things around the 1990s like TVs, discmans, computers, and VCRs.



__Sony Computer Entertainment__ One of the most successful branches of the Sony Corporation is the Sony Computer Entertainment. These include all of the home console systems, like the fifth generation Sony PlayStation. The Sony PlayStation was initially designed to be a CD-ROM drive add-on for Nintendo 's Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) game console. After the world-wide success of the PlayStation, it was proceded by the Sony Playstation 2, the Sony PlayStation 3, and then the hand-held Sony PlayStation Portable. The PlayStation 2 (sixth generation) is the best-selling console to date, reaching over 136 million sales at the end of 2008. The PlayStation 3 is the newest home console in the PlayStation family, as well as Sony's entry in the seventh-generation of game consoles. So far, there has been seven different models of the PlayStation, each with different memory or different color. The PlayStation Portable is Sony's first foray into the handheld console market, which is still being dominated by Nintendo. The PSP was first announced in 2003, later coming to America in March, 2005.



The PlayStation's most sold games include Halo, Gears of War, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, and Madden.



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