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

CPU

Sony Cell BE

RSX

NVIDIA RSX 90nm, NVIDIA RSX 65nm, NVIDIA RSX 40nm

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