Playstation 3 / PS3

The Playstation 3 is a video game console from Sony Computer Entertainment released on November 11, 2006 in Japan.

Its launch price was high, costing $599 for the model with 60GB of HD or $499 for the model with 20GB, which led many people to simply not buy it at first, something that Sony managed to get around in the following years.

The PS3 was the first console to use Blu-Ray media as storage media.

Its hardware features a 64-bit Cell processor that was developed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM, 256MB of Rambus XDR memory and a GPU based on Nvidia's G70 architecture, with a speed of 500MHz.

It sold around 87 million units worldwide.

Release date: November 11, 2006