• SCEA announce their acquisition of Crash Bandicoot creators, Naughty Dog Inc. Naughty Dog’s 30-person team will continue to be managed by founders, Andrew Gavin and Jason Rubin, but under the direction of Shuhei Yoshida, vice president, product development, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.

• SCEI make the following announcements:

• PlayStation (including PSone) sales world-wide: 79.61 million units

• PSone accounted for: world-wide 5.27 million 

• PlayStation software shipments world-wide: 744 million

• PlayStation software shipments for 1st nine months of financial year: 114 million

• SCEI and NTT DoCoMo Inc. agree six alliance partners to jointly develop network service combining mobile internet and PlayStation technologies in overseas markets.  These partners are:

       AT&T Wireless Group (AWE)

       Hutchison Telephone Company Limited (HTCL)

       Hutchison 3G UK Limited (Hutchison 3G UK)

       KG Telecommunications Co.,Ltd (KG Telecom)

       KPN Mobile N.V. (KPN Mobile)

       Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM)

• Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) and Vodafone Multimedia Limited announce a joint agreement to conduct research on products and services. Projects to be researched, include provision for Vodafone customers to connect their mobile phone to their PSone console or PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, and enabling PlayStation customers to access existing and enhanced web based hints and tips, via text messaging, WAP and other internet enabled services.

• Disney Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) announce an exclusive, multi-title agreement through which the companies will develop and publish video games for PlayStation®2, PlayStation® and PS one™ platforms, based on five upcoming and highly anticipated film properties from The Walt Disney Company:
  • Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire
  • Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc.
  • Disney’s Lilo and Stitch
  • Disney’s Treasure Planet
  • Disney’s Peter Pan: Return to Neverland
• March 14 - Sony Computer Entertainment America announced the release of Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge available exclusively for the PlayStation game console and the PSone console

Annual Report 2001	March 31 - Sony Annual Report released
In March 2001, SCE launched this mobile phone connecting cable in Japan.  With this cable, PlayStation consoles and i-mode handsets can be connected to enjoy certain software titles.

• SCEI announce the achievement of cumulative world wide shipments of hardware and software:

• PlayStation (PSone):   over 85 million units shipped world wide:

• November 27 - Sony Computer Entertainment America announced the release of TWISTED METAL Small Brawl exclusively for the PS one and PlayStation game consoles
• November 28 - Sony Computer Entertainment America adds the latest device to its peripheral arsenal, the five-inch LCD Screen for PS one, the redesigned, compact videogame console

• Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) this week reinforced its determination to crack down on the manufacturers and distributors of ‘mod chips’ when it secured a further High Court injunction, as part of proceedings against two ‘mod chip’ manufacturers. 

• The Court action was started on 7 December against the two companies, Channel Technology, the company behind the Messiah chip, and Neo Technologies, distributor of the NEO4 chip. The Court found in favour of SCEE, and extended its interim injunction against Channel Technology.  The latest Court Order prevents the advertising, selling or promoting of mod chips and requires the handing over of information about the source of the chips to SCEE.