Platform: PlayStation 3
Saints Row: Money Shot
No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise
Mega Man X8
Twisted Metal
Twisted Metal: Black
Flock!
SSX
Super Street Fighter IV
Hitman: Absolution
Journey
Gunbird
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
BioShock 2
Silent Hill: Downpour
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
Fallout: New Vegas
Folklore
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
Tomb Raider: Legend
Poncotsu Roman Daikatsugeki Bumpy Trot 2
Ikari Warriors
Yakuza 0
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
Jak 3
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
King's Field
Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL
DC Universe Online
Skylanders: Imaginators
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Dead or Alive
Mega Man 9
Resident Evil: Revelations 2
The King of Fighters '95
Life is Strange
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Tales of Vesperia
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Diablo III
Asura's Wrath
Ryuu ga Gotoku Kenzan!
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
Just Dance 2014
Beyond: Two Souls
Guitar Hero World Tour
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
The Darkness
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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'".