Platform: PlayStation 3
The Evil Within
Pop'n Pop
Transformers: War for Cybertron
Skylanders: Trap Team
Dead Island
Metro: Last Light
Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland
Streets of Rage 2
Chrono Cross
Rampart
SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge
South Park: The Stick of Truth
The King of Fighters XI
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
Monsters vs. Aliens
Game of Thrones
Persona 3 FES
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
One Piece: Pirate Warriors
Comix Zone
Final Fantasy IX
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!
BlazBlue: Central Fiction
Kingdom Hearts II
Rayman Arena
Mega Man X8
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
J-Stars Victory Vs
Persona 4 Arena
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
Splatterhouse
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
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MLB 12: The Show
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Toy Story 3: The Video Game
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Hyperdimension Neptunia
Sanctum 2
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
Dishonored
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Resident Evil 6
Tornado Outbreak
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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'".