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== About this page and the {{ps3|3.1}} game console ==
The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The successor to the {{ps2|4}}, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australia. The PlayStation 3 competed primarily against Microsoft's {{360|4}} and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles.

The console is infamous for it's high prices ($499 for 20GB and $599 for 60GB model), lack of quality games and most importantly, complex processor architecture. With the high prices during it's launch, the systems had a slow start in the market, but eventually recovered with the introduction of the ''Slim'' model, which sells for much cheaper prices ($299).

As mentioned above, due to the complex processor architecture used on PS3, known as Cell Broadband Engine, most video games made or ported to the PS3 during it's early days (including {{TOB|4}}) suffered from poor performance, compared to it's competitor at the time, Xbox 360, due to developers at the time doesn't know how to take advantage most of the Synergistic Processing Elements (SPE) cores on the Cell processor. Later games eventually took advantage of all of the SPE cores as Sony improving their documentation and console SDKs, which led to {{p2|4}} and {{csgo|4}} finally being released on the {{Ps3|4}} systems, and run with no issues.

The {{ps3|4}} is also the only console that was integrated with [[Steamworks]], used in {{p2|4}} and {{csgo|4}}. Steam servers for {{ps3|4}} have been shut down.

This category page lists the following games that either have been officially released or ported to the {{ps3|3.1}} gaming console. For the Wikipedia article about the PlayStation 3, which have more information about it's history, sales, and more, [[WP:PlayStation 3|click here]].

== Hardware Specifications ==
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|minOS    = {{wiki|PlayStation 3 system software|PS3 system software|icon=no}}<br>UI: XrossMediaBar
|minCPU   = IBM {{wiki|Cell Broadband Engine|icon=no}} with 1 PPE and 8 SPEs @ 3.2GHz
|minRAM   = 256MB XDR DRAM
|minHD    = {{wiki|PlayStation_3_technical_specifications#Configurations|HDD with varied capacity & depends on models (see Wikipedia)|icon=no}}<br> Blu-ray disc 2x, DVD 16x, Super Audio CD (20 GB, 60 GB and 80 GB models only), CD 24x
|minGPU   = Nvidia/SCEI {{wiki|RSX_Reality_Synthesizer|RSX Reality Synthesizer|icon=no}} (230 GFLOPS) @ 550 MHz<br>256 MB GDDR3 VRAM
|minaudio = '''A/V-Multi''' Analog stereo <br>'''TOSLINK:''' LPCM, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1, AAC<br>'''HDMI:''' LPCM, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1, DTS-HD Master Audio Bitstream <small>(Slim only)*</small>, Dolby TrueHD Bitstream <small>(Slim only)*</small>, AAC<br><small>*All models can decode Dolby TrueHD and as of firmware 2.30 DTS-HD Master Audio, to be output as LPCM. Output of the raw undecoded stream is limited to slim models.</small>
|minother = {{ExpandBox|'''Video outputs''': <br>'''HD (up to 1080p):''' Component video, D-Terminal, HDMI<br>
'''SD (480i/p, 576i/p):''' SCART RGB, D-Terminal, Component video, S-Video, Composite}}
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== External Links ==
*{{Wiki|PlayStation 3|Wikipedia page about the PlayStation 3}}
*{{Wiki|PlayStation 3 technical specifications|Full hardware specifications}}

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