Platform: PlayStation 3
Lost Planet 2
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
BioShock 2
Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting!
American Mensa Academy
Super Street Fighter IV
Gunbird
Final Fantasy Tactics
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven
Guitar Hero: Metallica
Just Dance 2014
Portal
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Catherine
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution
Yakuza 1&2 HD Edition
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Gunstar Heroes
Assassin's Creed II
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Dying Light
LittleBigPlanet 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan
Prince of Persia
Rock Band
Splatterhouse
Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy
Just Dance 4
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
Crash Team Racing
3D Dot Game Heroes
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Dragon's Crown
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition
LSD: Dream Emulator
Monsters vs. Aliens
Rayman Arena
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Mega Man X8
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
One Piece: Pirate Warriors
The King of Fighters XIII
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
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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 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'".