Platform: PlayStation 3
Rage
Dead Island
Dishonored
Battlefield Hardline
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Tornado Outbreak
Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
Prince of Persia: Redemption
Pac-Man Championship Edition
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix
One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2
Sega Superstars Tennis
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Bulletstorm
Splatterhouse
Resident Evil 5
Cars 2
Transformers: War for Cybertron
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
Twisted Metal
Sonic the Fighters
Noby Noby Boy
Crash Landed
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Twisted Metal
Jetpack Joyride
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Jumping Flash!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within
Battlefield 4
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
Risen 2: Dark Waters
Psychonauts
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
The Walking Dead
BlazBlue: Central Fiction
Fracture
Wipeout HD
Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting!
Trapt
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan
Final Fantasy VII
Eternal Sonata
King's Field
Sanctum 2
WWE 2K17
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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'".