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The original PlayStation 3's case was designed by Teiyu Goto of Sony, and uses the same typeface as the marketing materials for the film Spider-Man 3. [30] It has a glossy piano-black finish, and the power and eject buttons are touch-sensitive. The PlayStation 3 Slim is quieter and more compact than its predecessor.
A 120 GB Slim model Motorized slot-loading disc cover. This feature is absent in the Super Slim model. The redesigned version of the PlayStation 3 (commonly referred to as the "PS3 Slim" and officially branded "PS3") features an upgradeable 120 GB, 160 GB, [25] [26] 250 GB or 320 GB [25] [26] hard drive and is 33% smaller, 36% lighter and consumes 34% (CECH-20xx) or 45% (CECH-21xx) less power ...
The PlayStation Store is an online virtual market available to users of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) and PlayStation Portable (PSP) game consoles via the PlayStation Network. The Store offers a range of downloadable content both for purchase and available free of charge.
March 3, 2017 600,000 2017 Sony PlayStation 3 March 23, 2007 500,000 [70] March 2008 Atari 2600 1978 450,000 [71] 1983 Microsoft Xbox 360 December 2, 2005 281,000 [72] June 2007 Sega Saturn July 1995 200,000 [68] 1999 Dreamcast October 1999 180,000 [73] February 2001 Mega CD 1993 140,000 [17] 1994 Mattel: Intellivision: 1982 100,000 [71] 1983
The Cell processor version used by the PlayStation 3 has a main CPU and 6 SPEs available to the user, giving the Gravity Grid machine a net of 16 general-purpose processors and 96 vector processors. The machine has a one-time cost of $9,000 to build and is adequate for black-hole simulations which would otherwise cost $6,000 per run on a ...
On October 18, 2007, SCEA announced that the 80 GB PlayStation 3 model would receive an immediate price reduction in North America to US$499/CAD$499. [ 16 ] On November 2, 2007, the 40 GB model was released in North America for US$ 399/ CAD$ 399, with Spider-Man 3 on Blu-ray as a pack-in. [ 16 ]
PlayStation 2 Slimline PlayStation 3 PlayStation 3 Slim PlayStation 3 Super Slim; Image Key dates First released December 1994 March 2000 October 2004 November 2006 September 2009 September 2012 Discontinued March 2006 October 2004 January 2013 October 2009 September 2012 May 2017 Dimensions (WxHxD)
The CPU core is a two-way superscalar in-order RISC processor. [3] Based on the MIPS R5900, it implements the MIPS-III instruction set architecture (ISA) and much of MIPS-IV, in addition to a custom instruction set developed by Sony which operated on 128-bit wide groups of either 32-bit, 16-bit, or 8-bit integers in single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) fashion (e.g. four 32-bit integers ...