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Critical and commercial reception to PS3 improved over time, after a series of price revisions, Blu-ray's victory over HD DVD, [253] and the release of several well received titles. Ars Technica ' s original launch review gave PS3 only a 6/10, but second review of the console in June 2008 rated it a 9/10. [ 254 ]
In July 2009, in North America, Sony released a PS3 bundle with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Killzone 2, and a DualShock 3 controller. [19] On August 18, 2009, at Gamescom 2009, Sony announced starting the following day, the current 80GB PS3 model would have a price drop to $299. Sony also unveiled a recently rumored slimmer PS3.
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]
22-66 MB/s — 50-100 MB/s CPU Cores 1 1 two-way superscalar in-order RISC CPU core 1 Power Processor Element (Primary), 8 Synergistic Processing Units (Secondary) Threads ? ? ? Clock speed 33.9 MHz 294.9 MHz 299 MHz 3.2 GHz GPU Cores ? ? ? Threads ? ? ? Clock speed 53 MHz 147 MHz 550 MHz Ray tracing No Memory 2 MB System RAM 1 MB VRAM
The PS3 supports both the USB EyeToy camera/webcam and SOCOM Headset for video and voice chat. A memory card adapter is available so users can copy their old PS/PS2 game saves to a virtual memory card on the PS3's hard drive. [55] The PlayStation 3 can also use Memory Sticks to store and save data for PlayStation and PlayStation 2 software. [56]
Release date [a] Genre(s) Developer(s) Publisher(s) Grand Theft Auto V: 29.52 million [b] September 17, 2013: Action-adventure: Rockstar North: Rockstar Games: Gran Turismo 5: 11.95 million [3] November 24, 2010: Sim racing: Polyphony Digital: Sony Computer Entertainment: The Last of Us: 7 million [4] June 14, 2013
April 22, 2010: April 22, 2010 D [citation needed] Age of Booty: Certain Affinity: Unreleased: November 27, 2008: November 13, 2008 D [32] Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers: Games Farm Unreleased: December 7, 2012: August 6, 2013 M [33] Air Conflicts: Secret Wars: Games Farm Unreleased: July 8, 2011: November 15, 2011 M [34] Air Conflicts ...
As of December 2016, all Vita games were also made available to be downloaded digitally on the PlayStation Network via the storefront, [22] although not all games are released physically. [23] There are four different versions of the PlayStation Store: Asia, Europe (including Oceania and the Middle East), Japan and North America.