Playstation 3 Metal Gear Solid 4

The PlayStation 3 Slim model.

The PlayStation 3 (officially abbreviated every bit PS3) is the 3rd home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, and the successor to the PlayStation two. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft'southward Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as function of the seventh generation of video game consoles.

A major feature that distinguishes the PS3 from its predecessors is its unified online gaming service, the PlayStation Network. Other major features of the console include its robust multimedia capabilities, connectivity with the PlayStation Portable, and its apply of a high-definition optical disc format, Blu-ray Disc, as its primary storage medium. Information technology was first released on Nov 11, 2006 in Japan, November 17, 2006 in N America and South America, and March 23, 2007 in Europe and Oceania.

As of November 6, 2013 over 80 million PS3s have been sold worldwide.

The PlayStation 3 has been succeeded by the PlayStation 4.

Models

Generation	Model	Available colors	First available	In production	Other features/data
1st 4 USB ports, hardware-based PS2 emulation, Super Audio CD playback, tertiary-political party OS install.	20 GB CECHBxx NTSC	Piano Black with black trim	November 2006	No	No 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. No memory card readers.
	sixty GB CECHAxx NTSC	Piano Blackness with chrome trim	November 2006	No	Memory card readers. 802.11b/g Wi-Fi.
second 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, two memory card readers, four USB ports, partially software-based PS2 emulation, Super Audio CD playback, third-party Bone install.	lx GB CECHCxx PAL	Piano Black with chrome trim	March 2007	No
	80 GB CECHExx NTSC	Pianoforte Blackness with chrome trim	August 2007	No	Some models came bundled with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots or MotorStorm.
3rd 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, two USB ports, no PS2 emulation, no SACD support, third-political party OS install.	40 GB CECHGxx, CECHHxx, CECHJxx PAL, NTSC	Pianoforte Black Ceramic White Satin Silver Gun-Metal Gray (all have satin silver trim)	October 2007 EU AU Nov 2007 NA JP	No
	80 GB CECHKxx, CECHLxx PAL, NTSC	Piano Black Ceramic White Satin Argent (all have satin silverish trim)	Baronial 2008 NA EU AU Oct 2008 JP	No	Select retailers arranged later models with Greatest Hits versions of Metal Gear Solid iv and Killzone ii.
	160 GB CECHPxx PAL, NTSC	Pianoforte Blackness with satin argent trim	October 2008 EU November 2008 NA	No	NTSC models bundled with Uncharted: Drake'south Fortune.
quaternary 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, two USB ports, no PS2 emulation, no SACD back up, Bravia Sync XMB control, slim form cistron.	120 GB slim CECH-20xxA PAL, NTSC	Charcoal Black	September 1, 2009 NA EU September 3, 2009 AU NZ JP	No
	250 GB slim CECH-20xxB PAL, NTSC	Charcoal Black White and Pink	October 2009Eu Oct 15, 2009 AU NZ Nov iii, 2009 NA December 17, 2009 JP	No	Bundled with Final Fantasy XIII in Japan. Bundled with Uncharted 2: Amongst Thieves, Ratchet & Clank Future: A Scissure in Time, SingStar Motown, or Eyepet in Australia. Bundled with Tekken 6 in North America.

Hardware

The PS3 features a slot-loading 2x speed Blu-ray Disc bulldoze for games, Blu-ray movies, DVDs, CDs, and other optical media. All PS3 models take user-upgradeable ii.v" SATA difficult drives. Information technology uses the Sony, Toshiba, IBM-designed Prison cell microprocessor equally its CPU, which is made up of i 3.2 GHz PowerPC-based "Power Processing Chemical element" (PPE) and eight Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs).

The system has Bluetooth two.0, gigabit Ethernet, USB ii.0 and HDMI 1.3a built in on all currently shipping models. Wi-Fi networking is besides born on the 40, sixty and eighty GB models while a retentiveness card reader is built-in on threescore GB and CECHExx 80 GB models. The organisation supports upwardly to 7 controllers that are connected via Bluetooth 2.0 technology.

Controllers

The Sixaxis wireless controller (trademarked SIXAXIS) was the official wireless controller for the PlayStation 3, later to exist succeeded by the DualShock 3. In Japan, private Sixaxis controllers were available for purchase simultaneously with the panel's launch, without a USB to USB mini cable. The controller uses Bluetooth wireless technology and uses motion sensing so that games can tell how the controller is existence held and use that information. Originally, the vibration function for the controller was removed due to interference with the movement sensor, but vibration was restored with the release of the DualShock 3 controller.

The DualShock 3 is the now official PlayStation iii controller, replacing the Sixaxis completely while keeping the functionality of Sixaxis and adding rumble capabilities.

Backwards compatibility

All PS3s are generally backwards compatible with PlayStation (PS1) games. However, only early models of PS3s are backwards compatible with PS2 games. The first generation of PS3s used the Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer (EE+GS) chips found in the slimline PlayStation 2 to provide backwards compatibility. The second generation left the GS intact and used software emulation for the EE which resulted in many games encountering compatibility issues, though in April 2007 a firmware update increased the backwards compatibility to plainly include, among other games, such as Metal Gear Solid two: Substance.

Later models of the PS3, including the Slim as Super Slim, exercise non support backwards compatibility with PS2 games due to the consummate lack of the EE+GS chips.

The Metal Gear serial on the PS3

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Metal Gear Online, Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Metallic Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes, Metal Gear Solid Five: The Phantom Hurting, and Metal Gear Online three was released for the PS3. Metal Gear Solid 4 had to be compressed to fit on a Blu-ray Disc, despite the disc being capable of property up to l GB of data. The game also makes use of the Sixaxis and DualShock three, where Psycho Mantis can make the controller vibrate every bit he did in Metal Gear Solid.

As well, the original Metal Gear Solid is available on the PlayStation Network every bit part of the PSOne Classics.

Metal Gear games on the PlayStation 3

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)
• Metal Gear Online (2008)
• Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection (2011)
• Metal Gear Rise: Revengeance (2013)
• Metal Gear Solid V: Basis Zeroes (2014)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
• Metal Gear Online 3 (2015)

See also

• PlayStation
• PlayStation 2
• PlayStation 4
• PlayStation Portable
• PlayStation Vita
• Platform

External links

Official websites

• Asia
• Australia
• Canada
• New Zealand
• North America
  • Metallic Gear Rise: Revengeance PS3
• Uk

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