Platform: PlayStation 3
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know!
Transformers: War for Cybertron
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
The Simpsons Arcade Game
Angry Birds
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Dynasty Warriors 8
Silhouette Mirage
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
Rogue Legacy
Dragon's Crown
Mass Effect 2
Clockwerk
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Skylanders: Giants
TNA Impact!
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Resident Evil 6
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Payday 2
Pandemonium 2
The Walking Dead: Season Two
Retro City Rampage
WWE 2K15
Metal Gear Solid
The Amazing Spider-Man
X-Blades
Warhawk
The King of Fighters XII
Bakugan Battle Brawlers
Persona 4
Alone in the Dark
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Disney's The Emperor's New Groove
Journey
The Evil Within
Street Fighter IV
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tomb Raider: Legend
Q*bert: Rebooted
Psycho Soldier
Demon's Souls
Folklore
Rayman Arena
Heavy Rain
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
Rampart
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The PlayStation 3's launch was delayed a year after the Xbox 360 was released, supposedly because of a short supply of blue laser diodes, a "$0.05 component" that were used on the system's Blu-ray drive to read Blu-ray discs. Former PlayStation executive Phil Harrison elaborated:
"In this particular case, the shift from red laser to blue laser was actually quite a sophisticated change in the way that the optical head on a drive worked, and it was a little bit of physics and a little bit of chemistry mixed together, because it's really a crystal that you're making. And they just couldn't make enough."
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The small PlayStation logo on the front of both the Fat and Slimline PlayStation 2's disc trays can be rotated 90 degrees clockwise to match horizontal or vertical console orientations. This is also a cosmetic feature in the original model of the PlayStation 3, but was cut from future models.
PlayStation 2 - Fat and Slimline model rotation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROobHU_REfE
PlayStation 3 - Original model rotation:
https://www.tiktok.com/@skylotakahashi/video/7086069700005776645
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROobHU_REfE
PlayStation 3 - Original model rotation:
https://www.tiktok.com/@skylotakahashi/video/7086069700005776645
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The U.S. Air Force created a supercomputer called the Condor Cluster out of 1,760 Playstation 3 units.
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According to a report made by BBC's Watchdog, 0.5% of the PS3 60GB launch released would suffer from the infamous "Yellow Light of Death" (YLOD) approximately two years after its purchase, and since the PS3 warranty was about one year, Sony would offer a refurbished console in return of the faulty one, for £145 up until August 2009.
Sony responded to the report by saying that they "have serious concerns as to the accuracy of these allegations and the likely tone of the Watchdog report" and that they "think it is highly unfair to suggest that from an installed base of 2.5 million that the numbers you mention somehow are evidence of a 'manufacturing defect'".
Sony responded to the report by saying that they "have serious concerns as to the accuracy of these allegations and the likely tone of the Watchdog report" and that they "think it is highly unfair to suggest that from an installed base of 2.5 million that the numbers you mention somehow are evidence of a 'manufacturing defect'".