Sony Playstation 3 Information

The PlayStation 3 is the third video game console of the PlayStation brand from Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the highly successful PlayStation 2. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. Sony officially unveiled the PlayStation 3 to the public on May 16, 2005, during the 2005 E3 conference.

The console was released on November 11, 2006, in Japan; November 17, 2006, in the United States. In response to Microsoft’s Xbox Live network, Sony announced a unified online service for the PlayStation 3 console in 2006. Sony has confirmed that the service will be always connected, free and include multiplayer support. The PS3’s 3.2 GHz Cell processor, developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM, is an implementation to dynamically assign physical processor cores to do different types of work independently.