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Quick Facts
- Sold 81,639 gaming consoles in the first two days in Japan.
- The PS3 is 40 times faster than the PlayStation 2.
- Operating systems such as Linux can be installed on the PS3.
- Sold 4.9 million PS3s and 26 million PS3 games in the third quarter of 2007.
- Can be remotely accessed via PSP from any wireless access point in the world.
Expert summary
PlayStation 3 (PS3) is the latest video gaming console released by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2006. The PS3 is the most powerful of the so-called seventh-generation gaming consoles on the market. The system features the first implementation of the Cell microprocessor designed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. The PS3 Cell chip has one Power Processing Element and up to eight Synergistic Processing Elements. All the PS3 games run in High Definition and the system has a built-in Blu-ray player. The PS3 unit was originally highly unprofitable with each unit selling at an estimated loss of $250. Sony hopes to sell 100 million consoles over ten years The system is connected for free to the PlayStation Network.
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