Platform: PlayStation 3
Comix Zone
Jetpack Joyride
Double Dragon Neon
Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
Need for Speed: Carbon
Lollipop Chainsaw
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Dead Space 2
Prince of Persia
Grand Theft Auto IV
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Rage
Warhawk
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Skylanders: Swap Force
Gran Turismo 5
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
Dante's Inferno
Sonic Unleashed
Mafia II
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
Flock!
Watch Dogs
The Smurfs 2
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
South Park: The Stick of Truth
The King of Fighters XIII
Assassin's Creed II
Shadow the Hedgehog
Dead or Alive 5
Michael Jackson: The Experience
Team Fortress 2
Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator
God of War III
Assassin's Creed III
Gunbird
MLB 12: The Show
Yakuza 2
Pac-Man World
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
The King of Fighters XI
Tomb Raider
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
Rayman Arena
Policenauts
Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
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'".