Platform: PlayStation 3

In 2008, the mail-order DVD rental service Netflix cut a deal with Microsoft to give the Xbox 360 exclusive rights to distribute a downloadable Netflix app as a means of promoting the company's nascent streaming functionality. Because of this arrangement, when Netflix made similar deals to offer their services on the competing PlayStation 3 and Wii in March 2010, the company initially distributed game discs to subscribers which would boot up Netflix on those consoles, circumventing the terms of the Xbox deal by avoiding the use of a downloadable app. The disc versions of Netflix lacked several features compared to the Xbox 360 version, such as a search bar and the ability to toggle closed captioning. In October 2010, the exclusivity deal with Microsoft lapsed, and support for the PS3 and Wii discs were terminated in favor of the downloadable app with an updated user interface and the full set of features. A disc version of the Netflix app for the PlayStation 2 was also distributed in Brazil the following year, but completely ceased support in 2012.

Additionally, the Wii version of the Netflix app was limited by the fact that the Wii could only output a maximum resolution of 480p, compared to the 1080p maximum offered by competing systems. Both Netflix and Nintendo defended the restriction, claiming that the vast majority of streamable content on Netflix at the time was only available in standard definition and that the minority of high-definition content present was only available in 720p.

On Tuesday July 5, 2010, Sony uploaded the first episode of the anime Queen's Blade onto the PlayStation Network for free. However, they took it down two days later after they were informed of the show's mature content by IGN, and relisted it as a $2 purchase in the store's paid anime section.

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:

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.

The U.S. Air Force created a supercomputer called the Condor Cluster out of 1,760 Playstation 3 units.

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.

The old Playstation 3 font (From 2006 to 2009) is the exact same font used in Sam Raimi's 2002-2007 Spider-Man triology.

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'".