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Sony PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3 logo
PlayStation 3 logo
ManufacturerSony Computer Entertainment
TypeVideo game console
GenerationSeventh generation era
Release dateSee table
LifespanNovember 2006
MediaBD-ROM
DVD-ROM
CD-ROM
SACD
CPU3.2 GHz PPC Cell with 7 3.2 GHz SPEs
Online servicesPlayStation Network Platform (PNP)
Backward
compatibility		PlayStation, PlayStation 2[1]
PredecessorPlayStation 2

The PlayStation 3 (プレイステーション 3,, Pureisutēshon Surī, abbreviated PS3) is Sony's seventh generation era video game console in the PlayStation series. It is the successor to the PlayStation 2 and will mainly compete against Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii. The PS3 is scheduled for release on November 11, 2006 in Japan and November 17, 2006 worldwide, and will ship in two initial configurations.

The PS3 was officially unveiled on May 16, 2005 by Sony during an E3 conference, where the console was first shown to the public. A functional version of the console was not at E3 2005 or the Tokyo Game Show in September 2005, although at both events, demonstrations were held on devkits (for example Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots) and comparable PC hardware, and video footage based on the predicted PS3 specifications was produced (for example for Mobile Suit Gundam).[2]

Thus far, public reception of the console has been mixed with the Sony stock market price declining partially due to worries about the future of the PlayStation brand and its profitability.[3] However, Sony's chief has cited its widespread developer support and advanced "future-proofed" technologies such as Blu-ray and the Cell microprocessor, as ensuring the continued success of the PlayStation platform.[4]

Retail configurations

System configurations

Sony's current retail strategy for the PlayStation 3 will involve two different configurations that are detailed in a Sony press release.[5] The "premium" version of the PlayStation 3 will come with an internal 60 GB hard drive, Wi-Fi connectivity, HDMI output, and multiple flash memory card readers out of the box.

System Features
Feature Basic Premium
Upgradable hard drive Yes, 20 GB Yes, 60 GB
Blu-ray drive Yes Yes
Bluetooth controllers Yes[1] Yes
Built-in flash card reader No Yes
Built-in Wi-Fi connectivity No Yes
HDMI port No Yes
Silver logo and trim [2] No Yes

The second and alternate configuration of the console will have a 20 GB internal hard drive but will not feature Wi-Fi, HDMI, or a SD memory card reader. The hard drive is upgradeable, and memory card and Wi-Fi support can be added through adaptors, but the HDMI support is not upgradeable.[6]

The lack of HDMI output in the 20 GB model (as with the Xbox 360 or player lacking HDCP) could potentially cause problems with restricted output resolution on Blu-ray video. An ICT flag can be set by content producers, which forces non-HDCP video down to a pixel resolution of 960×540 (50% greater than DVD-Video at NTSC resolution, though only 17% more than PAL resolution). SCEA president Kaz Hirai stated that it is "too early to speculate at this point" whether movie producers will activate the ICT feature.[7] According to German publisher Spiegel, a behind-the-scenes agreement was made to not enforce the ICT flag on next-generation optical formats until at least 2010, or possibly even 2012.[8]

Release data and suggested retail price

Release date and suggested retail price by region
Region Expected pricing at release Release date
Basic Premium
Japan Japan (JPY)[5] ¥59,800 Open price Nov 11 2006
Europe Eurozone (EUR)[9] €499 €599 Nov 17 2006
United Kingdom United Kingdom (GBP)[10]
-
 £425
United States United States (USD)[11] $499 $599
Canada Canada (CAD)[11] $549 $659
Australia Australia (AUD)[12] $829 $999
Norway Norway (NOK)
-
 6000 kr
[citation needed]
Denmark Denmark (DKK)[13] 4,295 DKK 5,295 DKK
New Zealand New Zealand (NZD) $999
[citation needed] 		$1199[14] Nov 23 2006
* Prices and release dates subject to change

Sony Computer Entertainment UK Marketing Director Ray Maguire has stated that it is likely that they will launch only the 60 GB version in the UK market.[10]

In Japan, Sony has opted to go with an open pricing scheme for the 60 GB model, allowing retailers to set a price point themselves. Rakuten, one of the biggest Japanese online retailers, has set their price point at ¥71,800, or ¥75,390 with taxes added (about 675 USD).[15]

The PS3 has received mixed reviews for its price. It is significantly higher than its same-generation competition in all world markets.[16] Sony has publicly defended its pricing model, citing the PS3's higher performance and inclusion of a Blu-ray drive, of which stand-alone players will cost an estimated US$1,000.[7] There have also been statements by Sony suggesting games may cost more than US$60, the standard for higher-priced games.[17] Futureshop, a Canadian electronics store, has priced each game at C$ 74.99 (about 66 USD) [3]. Prices may be subjected to change.

Is it not nonsense to compare the charge for dinner at the company cafeteria with dinner at a fine restaurant? It's a question of what you can do with that game machine. If you can have an amazing experience, we believe price is not a problem.

— Ken Kutaragi on the PlayStation 3 price point

Games in development

Main article: List of PlayStation 3 games

Launch games


Other major titles

Title Release* Type Exclusive*
Metal Gear Solid 4 2007 Tactical shooter Yes
Assassin's Creed 2007 Action-adventure game Yes
Coded Arms Assault 2007 First-person shooter Yes
Devil May Cry 4 2007 Action Yes
Eight Days TBA Action Yes
Final Fantasy XIII TBA Role-playing game Yes
Final Fantasy Versus XIII TBA Role-playing game Yes
The Getaway 3 TBA Action-adventure game Yes
Gran Turismo 5 / HD 2007 Racing game Yes
Heavenly Sword 2007 Action-adventure game Yes
Heavy Rain TBA Adventure No
Killzone PS3 TBA First-person shooter Yes
Lair TBA Action Yes
Monster Kingdom 2007 Action / Role-playing game Yes
Tekken 6 2007 Martial Arts / Fighting game Yes
Virtua Fighter 5 TBA Fighting game Yes
Armored Core 4 TBA Third-person shooter No
Grand Theft Auto IV 2007 Action-adventure game No
Half Life 2 2007 First-person shooter No
NBA Live 07 2007 Sports No
Resident Evil 5 TBA Survival Horror No
Unreal Tournament 2007 2007 First-person shooter No
Mercenaries 2:
World in Flames		 2007 Action-adventure game Unknown
Time Crisis 4 TBA Arcade Shooter Unknown
Shin Megami Tensei TBA RPG Yes
Mobile Suit Gundam TBA Mecha Yes
* Subject to change


Multiple developers and publishers, like SCEI, Electronic Arts, Konami, Namco, Ubisoft, Capcom, Square Enix, Sega and many others have announced games for the PS3.

The game "The Getaway 3" may yet become a launch title as the original release date for this game was October 2006, however when the release date of the PS3 was moved from Spring 06 to November 06, releasing at that date became an impossibility

At the E3 2005 Press booths, Sony showed some pre-rendered and some real-time videos of games in development with the codenames Eyedentify, Vision Gran Turismo and MotorStorm. Also shown at E3 was a Final Fantasy VII technical demo of the opening sequence remade for the PlayStation 3. Tetsuya Nomura, director of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, said he would like to remake the game for the PS3 once his other projects are completed.

Backward compatibility

Sony has stated that the PlayStation 3 will have backward compatibility with the PlayStation and PlayStation 2, and that every PS1 and PS2 game that observes its respective system's TRC (Technical Requirements Checklist) will be playable on PS3 at launch.[1]

At the 2006 PlayStation Business Briefing, SCE president Ken Kutaragi asked developers to adhere to the TRC to facilitate compatibility with future PlayStations, stating that the company was having some difficulty getting backward compatibility with games that had not followed the TRCs. "Either it's accidental or on purpose; there's actually a lot of games that don't follow the TRC."[19].

Contrary to previous reports that PlayStation 2 emulation would be accomplished through software,[citation needed] the July issue of Japanese magazine Ultra One reports that the current design of PlayStation 3 includes the core PS2 chipset. IGN says that this presumably means that initial PS3 units will include the Emotion Engine/Graphics Synthesizer combination CPU/GPU chip used in slim PS2.[20]

The PlayStation 3 does not include interfaces for legacy PlayStation devices such as the DualShock controller and PS1/PS2 memory cards. It is not known at this time whether USB devices for PlayStation 2 will be compatible with PlayStation 3.

PlayStation 3 can use Memory Stick media to store save data for PlayStation and PlayStation 2 software.[21] It is not confirmed whether current PlayStation and PlayStation 2 save files can be used on the PlayStation 3.

Online services (PNP)

Main article: PlayStation Network Platform

In response to Microsoft's successful Xbox Live network, Sony announced a unified online service for the PlayStation 3 console at the 2006 PlayStation Business Briefing meeting in Tokyo. The name of the service has been given the working title of "PlayStation Network Platform" and Sony has confirmed that the service will be free and include multiplayer support. However developers are permitted to charge a subscription fee, as is common with MMO games. It is being jointly developed by Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Online Entertainment.[22]

Sony has also announced at last years E3 that PS3 would be an always on, always connected device, allowing you to connect to it to access your stored media via the internet.[23]

Interface and operating system

Interface

The PS3 will use the Cross Media Bar (XMB) already used in the PlayStation Portable and PSX devices. The version demonstrated at E3 2006 included options for different user profiles, the ability to explore photos, play music and movie trailers from the hard drive, compatibility for a USB Keyboard and Mouse, a full Internet browser and a Friends menu. In a separate demo Sony also presented the "Marketplace" where players can buy and download music, have a profile, and perform karaoke in a service called "SingStar".

Operating system

It has been confirmed that Linux will be pre-installed on the PS3 hard drive. Sony hopes that with its wide variety of features, PS3 will supplant the PC in the home.[24] This endeavour failed with the PS2[25], originally claimed to have Toy Story-quality graphics[26] and replace the home computer. Surprisingly, the marketshares gained in home computers (that Sony hoped to obtain) was taken not by Microsoft, but Apple.[27] In addition, Sony hopes that the presence of Linux in every PS3 will encourage independent content creation such as homebrew games.

Because we have plans for having Linux on board [the PS3], we also recognize Linux programming activities… Other than game studios tied to official developer licenses, we'd like to see various individuals participate in content creation for the PS3.
—Izumi Kawanishi on the presence of the Linux in the PS3.[28]

Currently it is unknown if Linux will be the operating system used to run everything, including the Cross Media Bar, or if the system will operate as a dual boot environment, where Linux would be loaded from the Cross Media Bar menu.

Hardware specifications

Unless otherwise noted, the following specifications are based on a press release by Sony at the 2005 E3 Conference,[29] and slides from a Sony presentation at the 2006 Game Developer's Conference.[30]

Central processing unit (CPU)

3.2 GHz Cell processor: one PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" and seven 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). The PPE has a 512 KB L2 cache and one VMX (AltiVec) vector unit. Each of the eight SPEs is a RISC processor with 128-bit 128 SIMD GPRs and superscalar functions. Each SPE has 256 KB of L1 cache/software-addressable 4.8 GHz SRAM, called the "Local Store".

Only seven SPEs are active; the eighth is redundant, to improve yield. If one of the eight has a manufacturing defect, it is disabled without rendering the entire unit defective. Additionally, one of the seven active SPEs is reserved for use by the system's OS, leaving six SPEs directly available to applications.

Graphics processing unit (GPU)

File:Ps3 2.jpg
The rear of the 20 GB PlayStation 3 as it was shown at E3 2006. AC IN, AV MULTI OUT, DIGITAL OUT and an RJ-45 network port are visible.

Custom RSX or "Reality Synthesizer" design co-developed by NVIDIA and Sony:

  • Based on NVIDIA NV47 architecture
  • Clocked at 550 MHz
  • 128-bit DDR memory interface
  • 211.2 GFLOPS programmable (384 FLOPS per clock)
  • 1.8 TFLOPS
  • Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
  • 136 shader operations per clock
  • 74.8 billion shader operations per second (100 billion with CPU)
  • 24 2D texture lookups per clock
  • 90 billion Dot Product operations per second with CPU
  • 1.1 billion vertices per second
  • 128-bit pixel precision offers rendering of scenes with High dynamic range rendering
  • Full high definition output (up to and including 1080p)

Memory

Total 512 MB, split into:

System bandwidth

  • 204.8 GB/s Cell Element Interconnect Bus (Theoretical peak performance)[31]
  • Cell FlexIO Bus: 35 GB/s outbound, 25 GB/s inbound (7 outbound and 5 inbound 1Byte wide channels operating at 5 GHz) (effective bandwidth typically 50-80% of total)[32]
  • 51.2 GB/s SPE to local store
  • Experimental Sustained bandwidth for some SPE-to-SPE DMA transfers - 78 to 197 GB/s.[32]
  • 25.6 GB/s to Main Ram XDR DRAM: 64 bits × 3.2 GHz / 8 bits to a byte
  • 22.4 GB/s to GDDR3 VRAM: 128 bits × 700 MHz × 2 accesses per clock cycle (one per edge) / 8 bits to a byte
  • RSX 20 GB/s (write), 15 GB/s (read)
  • System Bus (separate from XIO controller) 2.5 GB/s write and 2.5 GB/s read

Audio/video output

Video

Supported resolutions

Resolution Aspect Ratio Megapixels Standard Output (RGB via VGA connector or SCART)
640x480 Interlaced 4:3 0.31 interlaced 480i Composite video / S-Video / Component video / RGBHV / RGB-SCART
640x480 4:3 0.31 VGA / 480p Component video / RGBHV
1280x720 16:9 0.92 720p Component video / RGBHV
1920x1080 Interlaced 16:9 2.07 interlaced 1080i
1920x1080 Progressive 16:9 2.07 1080p Component video

Sound

Storage

  • Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-R, BD-RE. 2x (9.0 MB/s)
  • DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW. 8x (11.0 MB/s max)
  • CD: PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW. 24x (3.5 MB/s max)
  • SACD: SACD Hybrid (CD layer) SACD HD. 2x
  • Hard Drive: Pre-Installed 20 GB / 60 GB (depending on package), 2.5", detachable/upgradeable, with Linux pre-installed.[35]

Flash memory interfaces

(60 GB model only)

Communications

Controller

The 2005 "Boomerang" or "Banana" controller was officially abandoned.

At Sony's 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference, a new PlayStation 3 controller design was revealed. The design was superficially very similar to a wireless version of the DualShock 2 controller, as opposed to the wireless "boomerang" prototype design showcased a year earlier. The "boomerang" design was abandoned overall because of poor reaction from the public, so Sony decided to continue to go with the style that worked for them in the past.[citation needed]

The PlayStation 3 controller features a USB mini-B connector terminal at the top of the controller for charging the internal battery through USB, and also for wired play. There are four numbered LED indicators, to identify and distinguish multiple connected wireless controllers.

The final PlayStation 3 controller. Its design is nearly identical to that of the DualShock.

In addition to the basic design, the other major feature revealed at the press conference was the ability to sense both rotational orientation and translational acceleration.[36] Although it is not yet known how many games will use this feature, games that do (such as Warhawk) will come with an option to turn motion sensing off. It has been stated by Tetsuya Nomura that at least one incarnation of Final Fantasy XIII will make use of the motion sensitive controller.[4]

Sony has stated that because of the motion sensors, the rumble capability of the previous controllers will not be included, reasoning that the vibration interferes with motion-sensing.[36] Haptics developer Immersion Corporation (which successfully sued Sony)[37] expressed skepticism of Sony's rationale,[38] and has since introduced tilt and motion-sensing which filters out vibration in software.[39]

Some minor refinements have also been made to the controller. In place of the "Analog" button and light found on previous PlayStation controllers, a button with the PlayStation logo has been added to the center of the controller face. Some of the buttons have been raised from their previous versions, to enhance their pressure-sensitive analogue functionality. In particular, the L2 and R2 shoulder buttons have been redesigned to allow for a much deeper depression range, making them more trigger like. The analogue sticks also have a wider range of motion and finer analogue sensitivity—at 10-bit accuracy, an improvement upon the 8-bit accuracy of the previous models. [36]

Power supply and other components

The power supply will be built into the console. A standard 3-pin IEC connector is present at the base of the console.

In an interview, Ken Kutaragi revealed that the PlayStation 3 will be cooled using heat pipes and associated technology and that a liquid cooling system would not be used.[40]

It was also revealed PS3 would employ noise reduction so it would be as quiet as a slim PS2[41]

Overall floating-point capability

In a slide show at their E3 conference, Sony presented the "CPU floating point capability" of the PlayStation 3's Cell CPU, and compared it to other CPUs. In their official press release, the same statistic regarding the PS3 as a whole was reported to be 2.18 TFLOPS[29].

The figures are rounded estimates for single-precision operations based on addition of the theoretical maximum floating point performances of the processing units in the Cell CPU and those of the RSX GPU. Inevitably, real-world performance for both systems will be lower. PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves 256 GFLOPS single precision and is reported at around 26 GFLOPS double precision. Additionally, programmers may find it difficult, initially, to optimize their game engines to make the best use of the highly parallel architectures of both systems, further reducing real-world performance.

Physical characteristics

Weight

  • 5 kg (approx.)
  • (11 lbs.) (approx.)

Dimensions

  • 9.8 cm × 32.5 cm × 27.4 cm (approx.)[5]
  • (3.9 in. × 12.8 in. × 10.8 in.) (approx.)

Miscellaneous

Software development

The PlayStation 3, unlike the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 systems, is based on open and publicly available application programming interfaces.

Open standards

Sublicensed

Considered standards

The list of standards they are reported to be considering includes:

Sony has selected several technologies and arranged several sublicensing agreements to create an advanced software development kit for developers. In addition, in 2005 Sony purchased SN Systems, a former provider of Microsoft Windows-based development tools for a variety of console platforms; including PlayStation 2, GameCube, PSP and Nintendo DS to create additional GNU development tools. Sony is providing all developers with GNU toolchains where SN Systems will provide customer-oriented wrappers for GNU tools at an additional cost.

Region coding

During a Q&A session at the 2006 Game Developers Conference, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios President Phil Harrison confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will feature region-free gaming.[48] This is similar to the strategy used by Sony with the PlayStation Portable, which is currently region-free as well.

Blu-ray movies will still use a region code; however, the Blu-ray region code will be different from the DVD region code.

Trivia

  • The typeface used for the Spider-Man movies' logo is the same used for the PlayStation 3 logo. Spiderman is also a product of Sony.

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to PlayStation 3.

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