User blog comment:LilyLovegood/ The films do not take place during the 90's/@comment-206.75.64.84-20120720031006/@comment-4476879-20120720033926

This has been hashed out in detail before - theories suggested include that Dudley was a product-tester for the PlayStation, or that the PlayStation was released at an earlier date in the world depicted in the books - the world depicted in the Harry Potter books is not our own. Alternatively, it was just a mistake by Rowling - Rowling is known to be bad at dates. The presence of an anachronism does not render invalid what's been said before the series.