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Sony PlayStation 3

Sony · 2006

Sony's most ambitious and most troubled console: the Cell processor was a supercomputer part in a games machine, so hard to program that early titles ran worse than on cheaper rivals. The early "fat" units played PS2 discs and ran Linux, both of which were later removed, and they are also the ones that die of solder failure.

As catalogued

Maker
Sony
CPU
Sony Cell BE-3200
Memory
256MiB
Board issues
COK-001, COK-002, COK-003, DIA-001, DYN-001, SEM-001, JSD-001
Styles
CECHA (plays PS2 discs), CECHB (plays PS2 discs), CECHC, CECHE, CECH-2000 (slim), CECH-3000 (slim), CECH-4000 (super slim)
Regions
NTSC-J (Japan), NTSC (US), PAL (Europe)
Chassis
black console, fat, slim or super slim
OS
PlayStation 3 system software

Chips

2
CPU
Sony Cell BE
RSX
NVIDIA RSX 90nm, NVIDIA RSX 65nm, NVIDIA RSX 40nm

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