Platform: PlayStation 3
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
Just Dance 2014
The Smurfs 2
LEGO The Lord of the Rings
Madden NFL 13
Rayman Origins
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Braid
Far Cry 4
Sonic Unleashed
Burnout Paradise
Crash Team Racing
Fat Princess
Mega Man 9
The King of Fighters 2003
Yakuza Kiwami
Dungeon Defenders
Pinball Arcade
Heavenly Sword
Dead or Alive
Saints Row IV
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Shadow the Hedgehog
428: Shibuya Scramble
Risen 2: Dark Waters
J-Stars Victory Vs
Trine 2
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Portal
Assassin's Creed
Jurassic World
Dragon's Lair
Battlefield 3
Wild Arms
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Anarchy Reigns
The Beatles: Rock Band
Team Fortress 2
Art of Fighting
Payday 2
Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi
Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return
FIFA Soccer 13
The Revenge of Shinobi
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Darkstalkers 3
Clockwerk
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
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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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When Kazuo Hirai stepped down from the Sony Computer Entertainment board to become the CEO of Sony, he was presented with an exclusive custom PlayStation 3 console featuring a red and white finish.
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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'".