Sony PlayStation 3
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| Sony PlayStation 3 | |
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| Manufacturer: | Sony |
| Alternate Names: | Sony PS3 (Widely used acronym) |
| Announced: | 17 May 2005 |
| Release date: | JP: 11/November/2006 NA: 17/November/2006 EU: 23/March/2007 AU: 23/March/2007 |
| Initial Price: | JP: Two configurations: With 60GB hard drive and wi-fi on board: 60,000 yen With 20GB hard drive only: 49,980 yen. NA: US$599 EU: €599 AU: AU$999 |
| Discontinued: | yet to be released |
Product name: Sony PlayStation 3
Announced: 17th May 2005 (E3 expo)
Price: Rumoured to be "less than 50,000 yen" (US$465) at launch
Hardware Specification
CPU:
- PowerPC-base core @3.2GHz
- 1 VMX vector unit per core
- 512KB L2 cache
- 7 x SPE @3.2GHz
- 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
- 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE (1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy)
- total floating point performance 218 GFLOPS
GPU:
- RSX @550MHz
- 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
- Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
- Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
Sound: Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-base processing)
Memory:
- 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
- 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz
System Bandwidth:
- Main RAM: 25.6GB/s
- VRAM: 22.4GB/s
- RSX: 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
- SB: 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)
System Floating Point Performance: 2 TFLOPS
Storage:
- HDD: Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1
- I/O: USB 2.0, Front x 4, Rear x 2
- Memory Stick: standard/Duo, PRO x 1
- SD: standard/mini x 1
- CompactFlash: (Type I, II) x 1
Communication:
- Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
- Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 b/g
- Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
Controller:
- Bluetooth (up to 7)
- USB2.0 (wired)
- Wi-Fi (PSP)
- Network (over IP)
AV Output:
- Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
- HDMI: HDMI out x 2
- Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
- Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
Disc media:
- CD: PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
- DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PLAYSTATION 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
- Blu-ray Disc: PLAYSTATION 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE
Launch titles (USA)
This is the confirmed list of launch titles for the PS3's release in the USA:
The full launch window line-up follows.
- Resistance: Fall of Man (Insomniac/Sony)
- NBA 07 (Sony)
- Genji: Days of the Blade (Game Republic/Sony)
- Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII (Ubisoft)
- Call of Duty 3 (Treyarch/Activision)
- EA Sports Fight Night Round 3 (EA Chicago/Electronic Arts)
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)
- F.E.A.R. (Day 1 Studios/Vivendi-Universal Games)
- Full Auto 2: Battlelines (Pseudo Interactive/SEGA)
- Madden NFL 07 (Electronic Arts)
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Raven Software/Activision)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire (Namco Bandai)
- NBA 2K7 (2K Sports)
- Need For Speed Carbon (Electronic Arts)
- NHL 2K7 (2K Sports)
- Ridge Racer 7 (Namco Bandai)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (SEGA)
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Electronic Arts)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
- Tony Hawk's Project 8 (Neversoft/Activision)
- Untold Legends Dark Kingdom (Sony Online Entertainment)
List of Games
This is a list of games for the Sony PlayStation 3, organized alphabetically. This list is subject to change.
- 2 Days to Vegas (PlayStation 3) - Steel Monkeys
- Alan Wake (PlayStation 3) - Remedy Entertaiment
- Avalon - Climax
- Akira Kurosawa's Oni (PlayStation 3) - KOEI
- Broken Saints - Gnosis
- Clown Combat (PlayStation 3) - Eagle Claw
- Condemned - Sega
- The Darkness - Majesco/StarBreeze
- Dark Sector (PlayStation 3) - Digital Extremes
- Demonik (PlayStation 3) - Terminal Reality
- Devil May Cry 4 (PlayStation 3) - Capcom
- Dirty Harry (working title) - Warner Bros. IE
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PlayStation 3) - Bethesda Softworks
- EYEdentify (PlayStation 3) - SCEI
- FIFA 2006 (PlayStation 3) - EA Sports
- Fight Night 3 (PlayStation 3) - EA Sports
- Final Fantasy XIII (PlayStation 3) - Square Enix
- Formula One (PlayStation 3) - Studio Liverpool/SCEE
- The Getaway - Team Bondi
- Visual Gran Turismo - Polyphony Digital
- Grand Theft Auto (PS3 Project) - Rockstar North
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - SCEA
- Heavenly Sword (PlayStation 3) - Just Add Monsters
- Killing Day (PlayStation 3) - Ubisoft
- Killzone 2 (PlayStation 3) - Guerilla Games
- King Kong - Ubisoft
- Metal Gear Solid 4 (PlayStation 3) - Konami
- Metronome - Team Tarsier
- Mobile Suit Gundam (PlayStation 3) - Bandai
- MotorStorm (PlayStation 3) - SCEE
- Need for Speed (PlayStation 3) (New Generation Project) - Electronic Arts
- Notcom Racing (PlayStation 3) - ForwardGames
- NioH (PlayStation 3) -
- Old West Game (PlayStation 3) - Rockstar Games
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (PlayStation 3) - Buena Vista Games
- Possession - Blitz Games
- Resident Evil 5 (PlayStation 3) - Capcom
- STALKER (PlayStation 3) - THQ
- Scarface: The World is Yours (PlayStation 3) - Vivendi Universal
- Secret Service (PlayStation 3) - Tigon
- ShadowClan (PlayStation 3) - Tiger Hill
- Silent Hill 5 (PlayStation 3) - Konami
- Spider-Man 3 - Activision
- Spyro (PlayStation 3) - Insomniac Games
- Star Wars Galaxies (PlayStation 3) (Project/Plan) - Lucas Arts
- Tekken 6 (PlayStation 3) - Namco
- Thesis - Track7 Games
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 3 (PlayStation 3) - Ubisoft
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 4 (PlayStation 3) - Ubisoft
- Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (PlayStation 3) - Activision
- Unreal Tournament 2007 (PlayStation 3) - Atari
- Warhawk (PlayStation 3) - Incognito
- Winning Eleven (PlayStation 3) - Konami
Links
PS3 Portal
Gamespot PS3 Section
IGN PS3 Section
Interview with Sony's Ken Kutaragi on the Cell processor
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