Plug pulled on PSone production

by James Ransom-Wiley { Mar 24th 2006 at 11:10AM }

Sony has stopped all production of its original PlayStation console, turning towards the future and the PlayStation 3. Last September, the PlayStation (and the PSone redesign, pictured above) surpassed 100 million units sold and continues to be a popular item around the world. While, the PlayStation's 11-year-plus production run was impressive, the Atari 2600 topped that marked, as it was released in 1977 and not pulled out of production until 1991.

Tags: PlayStation, PS one, PSone, Sony

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Miharu @ Mar 24th 2006 12:25PM

Famicom was produced till 2003 or was it 2004? And stopped because they couldn't get the parts anymore.

Jim @ Mar 24th 2006 12:39PM

Yeah, NES was produced from 1983 to nearly a year ago.

David @ Mar 24th 2006 1:12PM

Godspeed little guy!

Rare Hare @ Mar 24th 2006 1:18PM

holy hell, i didn't know those things were still being pumped out! i loved my PlayStation.. good times :)

TravistyOJ @ Mar 24th 2006 2:41PM

No way, they stopped production of the NES a long time ago. Source please.

TravistyOJ @ Mar 24th 2006 2:59PM

OK, I stand corrected. I was thinking of US production. (How american of me to think only of my country). But up until 2003, NES and SNES were still being produced in Japan.

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Jun/bga20030602020213.htm

croz @ Mar 24th 2006 3:13PM

>Source please.
Here we go: http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Jun/bga20030602020213.htm

Although production for the US and European markets may have ceased years ago, the Famicom and Super Famicom were still in production for the Japanese market as late as September 2003. They probably still are in an unofficial capacity, in the form of those NES/SNES on a chip x-in-one TV game things.

TravistyOJ @ Mar 24th 2006 3:16PM

LOL, thanks, i guess i wasnt fast enough on confirming my post, so I stand doubly corrected :) At least we are in agreement.

slow news day @ Mar 24th 2006 3:45PM

It you count the Atari Flashback 2, the Atari 2600 is still being produced.

Fandel @ Mar 24th 2006 5:56PM

The last time I saw a SNES in stores was in 1999, NES, the last time I saw that system was around 1995/1996.

Did you know that they were still selling Sega Genesis systems in stores(Toy's R us) until 2001/2002. Hell, I saw the Game Gear in Toy's R US back in 2002.

I also remember hearing that Sega Master Systems were still being produced up until around 1999 in parts of South America.