developer silent line: armored core
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 . Its successor , the PlayStation 2 , was released in 2000 . The PlayStation 2 is the best - selling home console to date , having reached over 155 million units sold as of December 28 , 2012 . ___MASK79___ ' s next console , the PlayStation 3 , was released in 2006 and has sold over 80 million consoles worldwide as of November 2013 . ___MASK79___ ' s latest console , the PlayStation 4 , was released in 2013 , selling 1 million consoles in its first 24 hours on sale , becoming the fastest selling console in history . The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by ___MASK66___ . As the successor to the original Xbox , it is the second console in the Xbox series . The Xbox 360 competed with ___MASK79___ ' s PlayStation 3 and ___MASK25___ ' s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles . The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12 , 2005 , with detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo ( E3 ). A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor . The word " video " in " video game " traditionally referred to a raster display device , but as of the 2000s , it implies any type of display device that can ___MASK7___ two - or three - dimensional images . Some theorists categorize video games as an art form , but this designation is controversial . The PlayStation 3 ( abbreviated as PS3 ) is a home video game console developed by ___MASK79___ Computer Entertainment . It is the successor to PlayStation 2 , and is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles . It competed with Microsoft ' s Xbox 360 and ___MASK25___ ' s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles . It was first released on November 11 , 2006 , in Japan , November 17 , 2006 in North America , and March 27 , 2007 in Europe and Australia . Armored Core is a mecha - based video game series developed by ___MASK54___ for the PlayStation , PlayStation 2 , PlayStation Portable , PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 and mobile phone platforms . " Armored Core " games are third - person shooters , in which the player pilots a large mecha called an Armored Core . "" is the fifteenth and latest title in the series ; it was released worldwide on September 2013 . A mobile phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area . The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the switching systems of a mobile phone operator , which provides ___MASK53___ to the public switched telephone network ( PSTN ). Most modern mobile telephone services use a cellular network architecture , and therefore mobile telephones are often also called " cellular telephones " or " cell phones ". In addition to telephony , 2000s - era mobile phones support a variety of other services , such as text messaging , MMS , email , Internet ___MASK53___ , short - range wireless communications ( infrared , Bluetooth ), business applications , gaming , and digital photography . Mobile phones which offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones . The PlayStation Portable ( PSP ) is a handheld game console developed by ___MASK79___ . Development of the console was announced during E3 2003 , and it was unveiled on , 2004 , at a ___MASK79___ press conference before E3 2004 . The system was released in Japan on , 2004 , in North America on , 2005 , and in the PAL region on , 2005 . It primarily competed with the ___MASK25___ DS , as part of the seventh generation of video games . The PlayStation 2 ( abbreviated as PS2 ) is a home video game console that was developed by ___MASK79___ Computer Entertainment . It is the successor to the PlayStation , and is the second installment in the PlayStation lineup of consoles . It was released on March 4 , 2000 in Japan , October 26 , 2000 in North America , November 24 , 2000 in Europe , and November 17 , 2000 in Australia . It competed with ___MASK58___ ' s Dreamcast , Microsoft ' s Xbox , and Nintendo ' s GameCube in the sixth generation of video game consoles . History . ___MASK54___ was founded on November 1 , 1986 , and developed productivity software for the first several years of their existence . They released their first video game , titled " ___MASK82___ ' s Field ", as a launch title for the PlayStation in 1994 . In April 2014 , Kadokawa Corporation announced the intention to purchase the company from former shareholder Transcosmos . The deal was finalized on May 21 , 2014 . ___MASK54___ expanded into a new studio in Fukuoka in October 2015 , which began operations in January 2016 . The studio focuses on creating computer - generated imagery ( CGI ) assets for the games made by the Tokyo studio . Silent Line : Armored Core is a mecha video game in the Armored Core series .