Playstation 3: Third time’s a charm.

The Playstation 3, or PS3 is was released on November 11, 2006 in Japan, November 17, 2006 in North America, March 16, 2007 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was a predecessor to the popular Playstation 2 and the next in line of Sony’s Playstation series. The general competition to the PS3 is the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii and is a part of the seventh generation of video game consoles.

The PlayStation 3 is convex on its left side, with the PlayStation logo upright, when vertical (the top side is convex when horizontal) and has a glossy black finish. PlayStation designer Teiyu Goto stated that the Spider-Man-font-inspired logo “was one of the first elements SCEI president Ken Kutaragi decided on and the logo may have been the motivating force behind the shape of PS3″

A main feature of the PS3 is the online capabilities, Sony tried to add an online element to the Playstation 2, but was before its time. The PS3 has a built in online service, the Playstation Network allows you to purchase full PS2 and PS3 games, demos of up and coming games and updates of your current games.

The features of the PS3 don’t stop at just playing wonderfully beautiful HD games but it has an in built Blu-ray player With the ability to play Blu-ray movies, DVDs, CDs and other optical media all on one device. The Blu ray movies are the next level of technology from the DVD.

There have been several models of the PS3, the original playstation was released with a 20Gb and 60 Gb hard drive, fundamentally the same console and with backwards capability of Playstation 2 games. This has now been phased out and all current units do not come with the capability of playing PS2 games.

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