PS3 is gonna be da most fascinating console ever made in da history of gaming and da best ever by sony. The PlayStation 3 is competing with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles.Sony has included the ability for the operating system, referred to as
System Software, to be updated.The updates can be downloaded from the PlayStation Network directly tothe PS3 and subsequently installed or downloaded from the official PlayStation websiteto a computer, transferred to portable storage media, and subsequently installed on the system. Updates can also be installed from game discs that require the update to run the game. The PlayStation Portable can connect with the PlayStation 3 in many ways, including in-game connectivity.
For example, Formula One: Championship Edition, a racing game, was shown at E3 2006 using a PSP as a real-time rear-view mirror.In addition, it is possible to download PlayStation games to thePlayStation 3 from the PlayStation Store. These games were notoriginally playable on the PS3.The PlayStation 3 is convex on its left side when vertical (the topside is convex when horizontal), and has a glossy black finish with thePlaystation logo on the left side.The PlayStation 3 features a slot-loading 2x speed Blu-ray Disc drive for games, Blu-ray movies, DVDs, CDs, and other optical media.All PS3 models have user-upgradeable 2.5" SATA hard drives.The PlayStation 3 uses the IBM-designed Cell microprocessor as its CPU, utilizing seven of the eight "synergistic processing elements" (often shortened to SPE)The eighth SPE is disabled to improve chip yields (i.e. chips do not have to be discarded if one of the SPEs is defective). Only six of the seven SPEs are accessible to developers as one is reserved by the OS.Graphics processing is handled by the NVIDIA RSX ’Reality Synthesizer’, which can output resolutions from 480i/576i SD up to 1080p HD.
The PlayStation 3 has 256 MB of XDR main memory and 256 MB of GDDR3 video memory for the RSXThe system has Bluetooth 2.0, gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 and HDMI 1.3a built in on all currently shipping models.Wi-Fi networking is also built-in on the 40, 60 and 80 GB models while a flash card reader (compatible with Memory Stick, SD/MMC, and CompactFlash/Microdrive media) is built-in on 60 GB and current 80 GB models.