The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video clip game console developed by Sony Computer system Amusement. It is the follower to PlayStation 2, and belongs to the PlayStation brand name of consoles. It was first launched on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, as well as March 23, 2007, in Europe and also Australia. The PlayStation 3 contended primarily versus Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii as part of the 7th generation of computer game consoles.
The console was first officially announced at E3 2005, and also was released at the end of 2006. It was the initial console to utilize Blu-ray Disk innovation as its key storage medium. The console was the first PlayStation to integrate social PC gaming services, consisting of the PlayStation Network, along with the initial to be controllable from a portable console, via its remote connectivity with PlayStation Portable and also PlayStation Vita. In September 2009, the Slim design of the PlayStation 3 was launched. It now much longer provided the equipment capability to run PS2 games. It was lighter and also thinner than the initial version, and included a revamped logo design as well as advertising design, along with a minor start-up change in software. A Super Slim variation was then released in late 2012, additionally refining and revamping the console.
Throughout its very early years, the system got a combined reception, because of its high cost ($599 for a 60-gigabyte design, $499 for a 20 GB version), an intricate processor design, and also lack of quality games but was commended for its Blu-ray capabilities and untapped possibility. The function would certainly get more favorable in time. The system had a sluggish beginning in the marketplace yet managed to recoup, especially after the intro of the Slim version. Its successor, the PlayStation 4, was launched later in November 2013. On September 29, 2015, Sony validated that sales of the PlayStation 3 were to be terminated in New Zealand, however the system continued to be in production in various other markets. Deliveries of new units to Europe as well as Australia ended in March 2016, complied with by North America which ended in October 2016. Heading right into 2017, Japan was the last area where brand-new systems were still being produced till May 29, 2017, when Sony validated the PlayStation 3 was stopped in Japan.

What would be from the world of video games without all that does not have to do directly with companies and development studies. For years, the users themselves are carrying out very curious initiatives, and one of the most recent allows the return of the multiplayer of some PS3 games.

Well, the same group that has achieved this feat, under the name phone, has more surprises prepared, and perhaps the most striking is addressed to recover PlayStation Home. If you do not remember it, it is a social platform where users could interact with their friends by controlling a character who could scroll through a digital environment.

Thus, the initiative ‘destination home’ will try to reconnect the hub before the end of the year, which can already be without connection through emulators. In the video they have published, they are talking about being able to access both public and private rooms and visit the bowling alley, the park and the apartments.

These projects do not have any official support of Sony or any link with PlayStation, which is centered on PS5 and the new features that could include in the future, while promoting their offers at the PlayStation Store on the occasion of the BLACK FRIDAY that is celebrated this Friday all over the world.