Sony's gaming division and the PlayStation platform — launched in 1994 — which became the dominant home gaming console, selling 500M+ units across all PlayStation generations, and which was Nvidia's early development partner for 3D graphics technology.
Created the dominant home gaming platform through the combination of CD-ROM games, third-party developer ecosystem, and aggressive pricing — and by partnering with Nvidia-adjacent graphics companies in the late 1990s, contributed to the development of GPU technology that would later power AI.
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