Ranking Sony’s PlayStation Consoles

PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5. If there’s one manufacturer that sticks to simple names, it’s Sony. Their consoles are numbered, and this will probably continue indefinitely as long as they produce consoles. There are five PlayStations (as you know, of course) (aside from the Pro version), and we here at Gamereactor have weighed them against each other, considering their advantages, disadvantages, innovation and durability, and ranked them all. This is Sony’s best (home) console.

5. PlayStation 3 (2006)

There is a certain misunderstanding that we frequently enough encounter in the editorial office among many gamers, and it concerns wich seventh generation console sold the most (excluding the Wii, which topped both of its closest competitors). It’s clear that the Xbox 360 was probably the most popular and, above all, the most beloved console of the two, and when we at Gamereactor look back, we have more fond memories of it than Sony’s fancy alternative. That said, Sony sold 90 million PS3 consoles, while Microsoft sold 84 million Xbox 360 units, although the PS3 got off to a rocky start, largely because Sony misjudged the market and set the price tag for its third machine too high at launch.

It houses a very good Blu-ray player and an 8-core Cell processor with 90nm technology, meaning that the machine was much more expensive than the Xbox 360 at launch.On paper, it was also clearly more sophisticated, but this was never really seen in the best-selling multi-format games, as major developers testified that Microsoft’s engine was easier to develop on. However,the PS3 is a pure premium product and,despite the hideous Spider-Man font on the launch edition,it’s a very luxurious affair designed to be the centerpiece of your living room.

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4. PlayStation 4 (2013)

With the PS4, Sony abandoned the expensive and, on paper, impressive Cell architecture and instead opted to work with AMD and their X86-64 architecture, which gave us a gaming machine that could theoretically squeeze out 1.84 teraflops per second. With the PlayStation 4, Sony introduced its first touchpad on the included DualShock 4 controller, which, as we all know, has carried over to the PlayStation 5 dualsense controller and, when used properly, is a very useful feature. It was during this console generation that Sony first dipped its toes into the VR market with the PlayStation Camera and PlayStation VR. the PS4,and especially the PS4 Pro,are excellent consoles that will always be close to our hearts.

3. PlayStation 5 (2020)

When we decided on the criteria for writing this list,we had a directive that they should not focus (too much) on the console’s game library. Basically, we rate the machines thems