Germantown, Wisconsinâ MGS Mfg. Group, Inc., a leading global provider of optimized manufacturing solutions for high precision plastic products, was formally acquired by Mason Wells, a private equity firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
It is created and owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment since December 3, 1994, with the launch of the original PlayStation console in Japan. The original console in the series was the first video game console to ship 100 million units, 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch.
Released in 2000, 15 months after the Dreamcast and a year before its other competitors, the Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube, the PlayStation 2 is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles, and is backwards-compatible with most original PlayStation games.