The PlayStation 3, or PS3, is a seventh-generation home video game console designed, manufactured and sold by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the PlayStation 2, and it was in direct competition with the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. The PS3 was released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America and March 23, 2007 in Europe, Oceania and other PAL regions.
It features a hard drive (20GB, 40GB, 60GB, 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, 250GB, 320GB, or 500GB depending on the model) or flash storage (12GB, only on some late low-cost models), much improved CPU, easy hard drive expansion, high definition graphics, advanced online gaming capabilities, blu-ray media, wireless Sixaxis or DualShock 3 controllers, interaction with a PlayStation Portable (PSP) system through Wi-Fi, and other capabilities. It is also the only seventh-generation console not to impose region locking restrictions.
The PlayStation 3 was superseded by the PlayStation 4 in late 2013. New units of the console continued to be produced and shipped until March 2016 in Europe and Oceania, October 2016 in North America, and finally March 2017 in Japan, at which point the console had been discontinued entirely. As of 2025, new system updates for the PlayStation 3's software are still being produced, although they are fairly minor and infrequent.
Grand Theft Auto Games[]
- Grand Theft Auto IV - April 29, 2008 (worldwide, except for Japan), October 30 (Japan)
- Episodes from Liberty City - April 13, 2010 in North America, April 16 in Europe and Oceania
- The Lost and Damned - April 13, 2010 in North America, April 16 in Europe and Oceania
- The Ballad of Gay Tony - April 13, 2010 in North America, April 16 in Europe and Oceania
- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories - April 2, 2013
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories - April 2, 2013
- Grand Theft Auto V - September 17, 2013 (worldwide, except for Japan), October 10 (Japan)
- Grand Theft Auto Online - October 1, 2013. Shut down on December 16, 2021.
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - December 1, 2015
Dan Houser stated during an IGN interview that the reason Grand Theft Auto V was released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 instead of releasing it on (current at the time) eighth-generation consoles, is because they believed that these platforms still held a large amount of power and capability in them.
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