PlayStation 3 For The People

The PlayStation 3 also known as PS3 is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series.The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles.It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan.Sony officially unveiled the PlayStation 3  to the public on May 16, 2005 at the E3 2005 conference.81,639 PS3 systems were sold within 24 hours of its introduction in Japan.The console was originally planned for a global release through November, but the European and rest-of-the-world's release was delayed "until March" at the start of September.On January 24, 2007, Sony announced that the PlayStation 3 would go on sale on March 23, 2007 in Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Africa and New Zealand.The system sold about 600,000 units in its first two days.There are several original PlayStation 3 hardware models, which are commonly referred to by the size of their included hard disk drive: 20, 40, 60, 80 or 160 GB.The PS3 slim was officially released on September 1, 2009 in North America and Europe and on September 3, 2009 in Japan, Australia and New Zealand.However, some retailers such asAmazon.com, Best Buy and GameStop started to sell the PS3 slim on August 25, 2009.In September 2009, the BBC television programme Watchdog aired a report investigating the "yellow light of death" (YLOD) issue, a yellow light that indicates a non-specific hardware failure which renders the system unusable. The PlayStation 3 is a go out and buy for $299 console.