List of PlayStation manufacturing companies/facilities

Many PlayStation fans who like to see Made in Japan are increasingly missing this feature on modern PlayStations. Although dev/reference/test kits are only manufactured in Japan but I will be discussing consumer models only. In my opinion Made in Japan is nothing more than psychological effect since component suppliers are roughly the same; nevertheless I would still like to see Made in Japan on my console. But even in Japan there was not any single factory which produced all PlayStations and influenced from the thread http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?52308-PlayStation-2-production-plants I decided to build the list of plants which were involved in the production (final assembly) of different generations of PlayStation video game consoles and provided little information where I could but remember that info. provided here is correct to best of my knowledge and I am not professing that it is 100% correct. Although the list is supposed to comprehensive but I suspect despite of my best efforts it may be still incomplete and if anyone having some information which is missing here is welcome to add in this thread.
The list is built by compiling the labels of NTSC-J and NTSC-U/C consoles where former one provides information about manufacturing company and latter one tells about manufacturing location while PAL models just states made in Japan/China.


PlayStation 1 manufacturing companies/locations

Sony Plants
Sony Kisarazu (Later renamed as Sony EMCS Kisarazu)
Sony Kohda (Later renamed as Sony EMCS Kohda)
Sony Minokamo (Later renamed as Sony EMCS Minokamo)
Sony Senmaya (Later renamed as Sony EMCS Senmaya) [SUP]1[/SUP]
Sony Components Chiba
Sony USA, San Diego
Sony Baja California (Mexico)

Non Sony OEMs (I am not sure about them but they don’t seem Sony)
Company Label: MIYUKI S. (NTSC-J)
Company Label: SA MARUKO (NTSC-J)
Manufacturing Location: AID Komaki (NTSC-U)
Manufacturing Location: CDC Chiryu Aichi (NTSC-U)
Manufacturing Location: MSK Yonezawa Japan (NTSC-U)
Manufacturing Location: RKD Kohda Aichi (NTSC-U)
Manufacturing Location: FOXCONN Shenzhen

PlayStation 2 manufacturing companies

Sony Plants
Sony Kisarazu (Later renamed as Sony EMCS Kisarazu)
Sony Kohda (Later renamed as Sony EMCS Kohda)
Sony Minokamo (Later renamed as Sony EMCS Minokamo)
Sony Mizunami (Later renamed as Sony EMCS Mizunami)[SUP] 1[/SUP]
Sony Ichinomiya (Later renamed as Sony EMCS Ichinomiya) [SUP]1
[/SUP]
Non Sony OEMs
Solectron, Japan (Previously Sony Nakaniida) [SUP]2[/SUP]
Asustek Suzhou, China
Foxconn Shenzhen, China

PlayStation 3 manufacturing companies

Sony Plants
Sony EMCS Kisarazu [SUP]1
[/SUP]Sony Brazil Manaus

Non Sony OEMs
Asustek Suzhou, China
Foxconn Yantai, China

PlayStation 4 manufacturing companies

Sony Plants
Sony EMCS Kisarazu [SUP]1
[/SUP]
Non Sony OEMs
Foxconn Yantai, China
Notes:
1 Consoles manufactured by this plant are comparatively rare.
2 In October, 2000 Sony announced that this facility will be sold to Solectron.

PlayStation 1

Sony Kisarazu

Sony Minokamo

Sony Kohda

Sony Senmaya

Sony Components Chiba

The NTSC-U/C version

Sony USA, San Diego

Sony Baja California (Mexico)


MIYUKI S. (NTSC-J)

S. MARUKO (NTSC-J)

AID Komaki (NTSC-U)

CDC Chiryu Aichi (NTSC-U)

MSK Yonezawa Japan (NTSC-U)

RKD Kohda Aichi (NTSC-U)


SCPH-5903 is only NTSC-J model which has no company info. at back


PlayStation 2

Sony Kisarazu

Sony Kohda

Sony Minokamo

Between 2000-2001, Sony merged its assembly plants into a single company known as Sony EMCS. After that back also labels began to display names accordingly but still plant code could be found.

But PSX's stickers don't display any information about their production location other than country's name. I don't know if any plant other than Kisarazu is involved in its production.

Sony Mizunami

Sony Ichinomiya


Solectron, Japan

Asustek Suzhou, China

Foxconn Shenzhen, China


PlayStation 3

Sony Kisarazu

Sony Brazil Manaus
I don't have image of any label but there is alternative stuff for reference. The video is not in English
http://www.sony.net/pressroom/basic/products/base_europe_america_20141031E.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gm0psDgyrg

Asustek Suzhou, China

Foxconn Shenzhen, China


PlayStation 4

Sony Kisarazu

Foxconn Yantai, China

 

This is interesting. And it also explains why I've seen some consoles with "S EMCS" written on them, but with "SKZ" written in the corner of their stickers.

So SOLECTRON is also known as "SJN MIYAGI"? Any idea what does SJN stand for?
There's actually one more label for SOLECTRON, which seems to be only for the SCPH-18000. It's like the "S KISARAZU" label, but just reads "SOLECTRON". I'm not sure if they manufactured only one type of SCPH-18000 or both (A-chassis+ and AB-chassis).

 

Yes I actually saw that label but since SCPH-18000 but that doesn't contain factory code and because of the fact that plant code remains constant regardless of product model so I shall clarify (why I said SOLECTRON J=SJN Miyagi) with the help of another example which is SCPH-30000. You will notice that SCPH-30001 (shown above) and SCPH-30000 contain same code. As I have said that NTSC-J contains name of Manufacturing Company unlike NTSC-U/C which states Manufacturing Location, same is true for Solectron made consoles as well. My guess is SJN stands for Solectron Japan and sorry I didn't get "(A-chassis+ and AB-chassis)"

 

Thanks for clearing that up.

The SCPH-18000 appears to be an attempt by SONY to get rid of their stock of old console parts. There are two models of it:
SCPH-18000 A-chassis+: GH-003 (The mainboard from the SCPH-15000) with a replacement BOOT + DVD ROM chip connected via the internal expansion board connector. Still has the old EE (Has the short-loop bug) and IOP chips.
SCPH-18000 AB-chassis: GH-008 (Has the newer EE and IOP chips from the SCPH-30000, and with the new boot ROM and DVD ROM chips. Still has the old CXD9566R SSBUSC and PC CARD interface)

The CXD9566R SSBUSC (SS-bus Controller) handles access to a lot of peripherals. But it's mainly known to us for providing the expansion interface (PC CARD slot for these early consoles). Expansion bay consoles have a CXD9611 or CXD9686.

The SCPH-10000 and SCPH-15000 are known as A-chassis consoles. Hence A-chassis+ is like an enhanced version of the A-chassis.
The first SCPH-30000 is a B-chassis, so an AB-chassis is like a hybrid between the two.

FYI, the new boot ROM provided:
1. A new kernel, which has the new implementations of GetOsdConfig() and SetOsdConfig, ExecPS2(), and had the GetOsdConfig2() and SetOsdConfig2() functions added. The OsdConfig functions were replaced for the support of the browser update v2.00, and to identify that the kernel is a new kernel. ExecPS2() was replaced to prevent the kernel from crashing when it is used (No game ever needed it because it was only used with HDD support).
2. Built-in HDD support. The SCPH-10000 and SCPH-15000 consoles did not have HDD support built-in and required a system driver update to be installed on the memory card. This system driver update also patches the old kernel, for #1.
3. A new OSD that supports those special PS2-only characters in FONTM. It was also fixed to not have the argument-passing bug.
4. Built-in DVD player.

On the surface, I don't think that there's a known way to determine which mainboard is inside the SCPH-18000.

 

Thank you very much for explanation sir!

 

Both my SCPH-9000 and my SCPH-10000 consoles are S KISARAZU.

Cool thread. I didn't realize they manufactured the PS4 in Japan.

 

I think SKZ now only produces consoles at its launch time when demand is too high (usually in millions in case of ps4). One plant in China cannot handle all burden, so remaining game systems have to be produced somewhere else. Now I only expect to see "Made in Japan" console when ps5 is released.

 

What about disc manufacturers? I was going through my demo collection and saw that some discs still have mailing labels on them. I didn't see a relevant thread to put this one, so maybe someone will find it useful. This is on the back of The Unholy War demo. Address blacked out, it isn't mine.



Sony Disc Mfg
1440 Savannah Ave
Terre Haute, IN 47804

 

Sony Disc Manufacturing

There is a subsidiary of Sony known as Sony DADC which manufactures discs not only for PS consoles but also for movie, software and game publishers. Now Sony's Indiana facility (the same address shown in picture) is only Sony disc manufacturing facility left in the United States and it is responsible for producing ps3, ps4 discs for PlayStation in US region. There were also other plants in the US but they are now closed as disc business is shrinking due to digital downloads. Sony DADC has many plants all over the world which produce PS discs for their respective regions. For European, Middle Eastern and African regions discs are made in Austria*, for Japan and some Asian Pacific regions discs are manufactured in Japan and for US discs are produced in United States.
I have also seen PS discs made in Australia, Mexico and Brazil.
If you are interested in further information the following websites/webpages will be useful for you.
Sony DADC Company Website
http://www.sonydadc.com
PlayStation Developer Wiki
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/Disc_Identification/Serialization_Data
Austrian news site giving news about company shows image of 'Parappa the Rapper' disc being produced at company's site (don't know which one Anif/Thalgau)
http://www.salzburg24.at/sony-dadc-salzburg-158-mitarbeiter-muessen-gehen/3143287
YouTube video about disc manufacturing process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ek2bKW22A
* I also heard the news that Sony had opened new blu-ray factory in Russia for local market.

 

Actually, Sony DADC have UK facilities, too. Their Enfield distribution centre suffered a major fire in 2011, but they continued production in Southwater. They definitely dealt with UMDs at Enfield - whether they manufactured them in the UK, too, I'm not sure. There's also the office in London. I did find this, mind you:

http://www.sonydadc.com/en/news/pre...on-after-enfield-distribution-centre-fire-27/

 

Sony DADC UK Ltd.

Yes, I knew that Sony has manufacturing facility in Southwater, UK but I was just keeping my discussion relevant to PlayStation media and this site is not involved in the production of PlayStation disc. It doesn't has any blu-ray production capacity according to official information.
http://www.sonydadc.com/en/contact/sony-dadc-uk-ltd-33/
And here is screenshot of a document of Sony DADC which is in german. The date year on document is 2010 but I think it is true for now as well.

and even any PS1, PS2 game CD/DVD is not made by it in the past and Enfield site is just distribution center. I have seen only one European PS disc made outside of Austria and that was demo one (SCED-00816) which was made in Japan.

http://www.crimson-ceremony.net/demopals/demo1/index.php?img=ver5-eur2#SCED-00816

 

I think that this thread should be stick'ied in the SONY console section. It's informative.

Other than just the manufacturer's details on the sticker, the sticker for PlayStation 2 consoles may also have the chassis designation printed on it as mentioned in the Level 1-1 SCPH-30000-SCPH-50000 series service manual. It appears to start at some point in the SCPH-30000 series (currently believed to be starting with the D-chassis, thanks to l_Oliveira for mentioning this), and exists near the P/N. For example, "3-069-696-02 D SKZ" for a D-chassis that was manufactured by SONY KISARAZU.

 

My PS1 SCPH-1001 September 1995 (US launch date PS1) Manufactured in Kisarazu Plant

 

nice but sadly I don't know birthplace of my console . Its label show nothing about its origin other than country. The only thing that might help is no. written at bottom right. My guess is that it is manufactured in Kisarazu as well but I am not certain about this. Can someone help me out?

 

Thank you very for your feedback on my thread but I don't know how to perform this thread transfer action.

 

Contact one of the mods.

 

There are two Sub-forums about Sony one is ps4 development and another is Sony programming and development I think this thread can't be classified in any of those categories.

 

I think that there's one more Chinese plant. The SCPH-50009 has "Sony Electronics (Wuxi) Co., Ltd" written on it:
工厂: 索尼电子(无锡)有限公司

I have a photograph from SONIC3D, but will post only if he agrees.

My Chinese is very weak though, but I can see the factory's address displayed on the sticker as well.

 

I am not surprised that the plant which is best known for making cybershot cameras gave its services to its sister company (Sony Computer Entertainment) when SCE's 3rd party contractors fail to meet their desired demand and what language you use in your country?

 

I speak English, although I'm supposed to be bilingual. I didn't put in enough effort while studying Chinese when I was young, hence why I am rubbish at that language.

That SCPH-50009 isn't mine and this model wasn't ever sold outside of China.

BTW, the EMCS ID appears to be the first two digits of the number beneath the barcode of some regions, as it seems to match the EMCS ID of the console. Right now, I've seen the following values:
00 = Japan, probably S EMCS before the 50K series.
01 = China, probably FXN... unless there were other non-Japanese manufacturers before the 50K series appeared.
10 = S EMCS
18 = S EMCS (PSX)
20 = FXN
21 = FXN
30 = SZMT
40 = SONY WUXI

18 is used on only PSX units, it seems. How did you know that S KISARAZU manufactured the PSX?
Consoles before the 50K series appear to only have 00 or 01 (Rare! Most sets were still made in Japan).

Are all these photographs that you uploaded, photographs of your own consoles?