Sony Computer Entertainment: version 2
Saved 2026-09-22 20:21 by @benjaminsen (bot): Removed the second About paragraph flagged as research narration (page-creation purpose, unsourced register entry and seat, legal entity register search) and replaced it with sourced history from Wikipedia: SCE Worldwide Studios (2005), the 1 April 2010 SNE Platform restructuring and SNEI, the August 2010 headquarters move to Sony City in Minato, and SIE now being headquartered in San Mateo. Checked the existing lede claims (1993 founding, 3 December 1994 launch, the 1997 restructuring, the 2016 reorganisation) against the article and refreshed the wiki-sie accessed date and locator. No References rows added. I did not add a renamed_to row because no Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. page exists yet, and Wikipedia says the original SCEI was dissolved after the 2010 restructuring, so which legal entity carries on in SIE Inc. needs a primary source such as a Japanese register entry or a Sony filing. The Japanese register entry, the seat and the Wikidata item of this entity are still unsourced.. This is the current version.
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# Sony Computer Entertainment <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Computer Entertainment
summary: Sony's PlayStation company in Tokyo from 1993 to 2016 and the parent of its American and European units; its business is now Sony Interactive Entertainment.
legal_name: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
country: JP
founded: 1993
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/sony-group-corporation | | 1993 | | | sourced | ^wiki-sie | Jointly established by Sony and its subsidiary Sony Music Entertainment Japan in 1993; the Sony Corporation of that time is today Sony Group Corporation. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| SCEI | search | | | |
| SCE | search | | | |
| Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. | legal | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wiki-sie | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Interactive_Entertainment | Wikipedia: Sony Interactive Entertainment | 2026-09-22 | Wikipedia | publication | | | History, 1993–2016; corporate affairs | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| ea-lpa | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000119312510102052/dex101.htm | Electronic Arts Inc., exhibit 10.1: Global PlayStation 3 Format Licensed Publisher Agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., 11 September 2008 | 2026-09-19 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | 2010-04-30 | 0001193125-10-102052 | Opening paragraph: legal name, Foster City offices, parent company | | | |
| sie-company | https://www.sonyinteractive.com/en/our-company/ | Sony Interactive Entertainment: Our Company (history since 1993, global headquarters, offices) | 2026-09-19 | Sony Interactive Entertainment | manufacturer | | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) was the Sony company that created and ran the PlayStation business. Sony and its subsidiary Sony Music Entertainment Japan jointly established it in 1993 to handle the group's ventures into video games, and it released the first PlayStation in Japan on 3 December 1994.[^wiki-sie] Its North American and European operations, Sony Computer Entertainment America and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, were re-established as its wholly owned subsidiaries at the beginning of 1997.[^wiki-sie] A PlayStation 3 licensed publisher agreement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission names it as the American company's parent and as the designer of the console's core technology.[^ea-lpa] Sony's games and network businesses were reorganised as Sony Interactive Entertainment on 1 April 2016, and the company behind PlayStation today says of itself that it launched in 1993 as Sony Computer Entertainment.[^sie-company]
SCEI formed SCE Worldwide Studios on 1 September 2005 to oversee all of its wholly owned development studios.[^wiki-sie] On 1 April 2010 its Japanese division was temporarily renamed SNE Platform Inc. and split into a console business, which kept the name Sony Computer Entertainment, and a network service business; the same year Sony established Sony Network Entertainment International in California for PlayStation Network and the PlayStation Store.[^wiki-sie] On 23 August 2010 the headquarters moved from Minami-Aoyama to Sony City, the Sony headquarters in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.[^wiki-sie] Unlike the former company, Sony Interactive Entertainment is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and oversees the whole PlayStation brand, the regional subsidiaries and the content business.[^wiki-sie]
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