PLAYSTATION 3, abbreviated PS3) is Sony's third generation consoles. PlayStation 3 is the successor of the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. This console competing with the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and Wii from Nintendo.
PlayStation 3 was released in Japan on November 11, 2006 promptly at seven, and was released on November 17, 2006 in North America (U.S. and Canada), Hong Kong and Taiwan, and 1 or March 7, 2007 in Europe and Australasia, and PAL regions other. PlayStation 3 was released with 2 types, Basic and Premium / Platinum. PlayStation 3 officially introduced to the world on May 16, 2005 at E3. The first final configuration shown at TGS (Tokyo Game Show) 2006.
The latest technology used is its cell processor, the processor type that is really optimized to perform floating point operations. Unlike the desktop processors in general, the ability of cell processor in the PlayStation 3 to perform floating point operations are very good. The ability of cell processor to perform floating point operations is very good because the cell processor is a vector processor architecture. Even the processor used in PlayStation 3 is the most sophisticated processor at this time. Besides the GPU is made by Sony in collaboration with NVidia.