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The PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game console has been produced in various models during its life cycle. At launch, the PlayStation 3 was available with either a 20 or 60 GB hard disk drive in the US and Japan, respectively— priced from US$499 to US$599; and with either a 40, 60, or 80 GB hard disk drive in Europe, priced from £299 to £425. [1]
Also, the launch price of the Japanese 20 GB model was reduced by over 20%, [46] and the 60 GB model was announced for an open pricing scheme in Japan. [46] During the event, Sony showed 27 playable PS3 games running on final hardware.
The new 40 GB, 80 GB and 160 GB PlayStation 3 models do not feature software emulation of PlayStation 2 hardware. [1] In August 2009, all previous models were discontinued, as the new PS3 Slims were released, in 120GB and 250GB editions, priced at $299 and $349, respectively.
Earlier systems supported up to four USB 2.0 ports at the front (20 and 60 GB models, as well as the NTSC 80 GB), but the 40 GB and 80 GB PAL models only have two USB ports. All models released after August 2008 have been reduced to two USB ports at the front, as well as dropping CompactFlash and SD card support.
500 GB or 1 TB: 1 TB 1 TB or 2 TB 16 GB 825 GB Type HDD: eMMC Flash SSD: Bandwidth 50-100 MB/s 132 MB/s 5.5 GB/s Optical drive Yes No Yes No CPU Cores 8 4 8 Threads 8 4 16 Clock speed 1.6 GHz 2.1 GHz 1.5 GHz 3.5 GHz GPU Cores 18 36 2 36 Threads ? ? ? Clock speed 800 MHz 911 MHz 660 MHz 2.23 GHz Ray tracing No Yes Memory 8 GB GDDR5: 1 GB DDR3 ...
[56] [57] On October 18, 2007, Sony announced a US$100 price drop for the 80 GB model and a new US$399 40 GB model to launch on November 2, 2007 [58] with reduced features such as the removal of backward compatibility with PS2 games. Within weeks, Sony announced that sales of the 40 GB and 80 GB models by major retailers had increased 192%. [59]
The PS3 was originally offered with either a 20 GB or 60 GB hard drive, but over the years its capacity increased in increments available up to 500 GB. The PlayStation 3 has sold over 80 million consoles worldwide as of November 2013. [25]
[33] [34] At launch, the device did not support transferring saved game files back to a memory card, but upon the release of the PlayStation 3 system software version 1.80, the user is now able to transfer PS1 and PS2 game saves from the PS3 directly onto a physical Memory Card via the adapter. PlayStation 2 saved game files can also be ...