Sony Computer Entertainment

Sony Computer Entertainment, abbreviated SCE, is a subsidiary of the mass electronics corporation Sony, and is a major voice in the modern video game industry. 
The company began production with their PlayStation system in 1994. Sony Computer Entertainment handles the research & development, production, and sales of both hardware and software for the PlayStation line of handheld and home console video game systems. It is also a developer and publisher of video game titles and is composed of several subsidiaries covering the company's biggest markets: North America, Europe and Asia.
== History ==
=== 1990s ===
Sony Computer Enterainment was founded by Steve Race in the autumn of 1993. Race remained as the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment for another two years, though quit for a CEO position at Spectrum HoloByte. Martin Homlish then took Race's spot at CEO at SCE. 
With Homlish leading SCE, Sony began to make several changes overall the worldwide corporation. During this reconstruction, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. was initiated. 
=== 2000s ===
By early 2002, Chairman Shigeo Maruyama was replaced by Tamotsu Iba, and new positions for Senior Vice-Presidents were filled by Jack Tretton and Phil Harrison. In 2010, Tretton was named Presiden and CEO of SCEA. By the mid 2000s, Sony had formed Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, a worldwide overseeing group of all of SCE's projects and affairs as well as finished the final stages of their reconstruction which began in the late 1990s. 
Since the mid 2000s, several changes to administration and executives were made including a new change in Chairman to Kaz Hirai and a change of president to Andrew House. Also, in 2005, Sony acquired new corporations such as Guerrilla Games, Evolution Studios, an d Bigbig Studios. 
=== 2010s ===
During 2010, SCE was merged with Sony's mobile electronics and personal computers divisions. Hirai, since the change of SCE Japan to SNE Platform Inc., has now led the SCEA and SCEE branches of SCE. In spring of 2010, Sony later acquired Media Molecule, and in 2011, acquired Sucker Punch Productions. 
It is also notable that SCE was affected greatly by an outrage caused by several hackers of the PlayStation Network. This began with personal details from approximately 77 million accounts being stolen by several hackers on June 2, 2011.
== Consoles developed by Sony ==
; Home consoles
* PlayStation
* PocketStation
* PlayStation 2
* PSX
* PlayStation 3
* PlayStation Move
; Handheld systems
* PlayStation Portable
* PlayStation Vita
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