Sunday, September 5, 2021

Basic timeline of Sony

This post is a basic timeline of Sony. There are 24 events listed below chronologically.

  • Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita found Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (1946)
  • TR-55 transistor radio (1955)
  • TR-6 transistor radio (1956)
  • TR-63 transistor radio (1957)
  • Renamed to Sony (1958)
  • TV8-301 television (1960)
  • TC-50 cassette recorder (1969)
  • VP-1000 videocassette recorder (1971)
  • Walkman stereo cassette player (1979)
  • Sony Life insurance (1979)
  • CDP-101 compact disc (1981)
  • Sony Mavica electric camera (1981)
  • Begins producing lithium-ion batteries (1991)
  • Sony Pictures Entertainment is formed (1991)
  • PlayStation (1994)
  • Memory Stick (1998)
  • PlayStation 2 (2000)
  • Sony Bank (2001)
  • PlayStation Portable (2004)
  • PlayStation 3 (2006)
  • PlayStation Vita (2011)
  • PlayStation 4 (2013)
  • PlayStation VR (2016)
  • PlayStation 5 (2020)

Sources
Wikipedia: History of Sony, Sony