Platform: PlayStation 3
Borderlands
Trapt
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Alone in the Dark
Skylanders: Swap Force
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy
Ridge Racer Type 4
J-Stars Victory Vs
The King of Fighters XII
Burnout Paradise
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
The Walking Dead: Season Two
WALL-E
Q*bert
King's Field
Persona 4 Arena
Yakuza Kiwami
The Darkness II
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Double Dragon Neon
Jurassic Park: The Game
Angry Birds
Braid
SaGa Frontier
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
Fracture
PlayStation Move Ape Escape
WWE 2K16
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game
Crash Bandicoot
Castle Shikigami 2
Guitar Hero World Tour
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011
The King of Fighters XIII
Terraria
flOw
Comix Zone
Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
WWE 2K17
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
Binary Domain
Folklore
Transformers: Devastation
Wild Arms
BioShock Infinite
How to Survive
Skullgirls
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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'".