Total Price: $399.99
Click Here for the Sony PlayStation Store
Includes PlayStation 3 System with 80 GB Hard Drive, DualShock 3 Wireless Controller, and Component AV Cable.
PLAYSTATION3 computer entertainment system unleashes a brilliant, high-definition entertainment experience. As its digital soul, the Cell Broadband Engine represents a tour de force in parallel processing, which means a gaming experience that is beyond what you know today. Its built-in Blu-ray Disc drive delivers a whole new generation in high-definition gaming and unmatched digital media storage. Whether it's gaming, Blu-ray movies, music or online services, PLAYSTATION3 invites you to Play Beyond.
Beyond power. Beyond limits. Beyond evolution. Beyond anything ever created in the world of gaming, lies the PLAYSTATION3 system. And with it the chance to transcend the concept of what traditional game play is supposed to before gamers worldwide to finally PLAY BEYOND.
PROCESS THAT: IT PERFORMS 1.8 TRILLION CALCULATIONS PER SECOND
The PLAYSTATION3 systems Cell Broadband Engine is the very thing that game developers have always dreamt about. Its unique multi-processing unit design represents a tour de force in parallel processing. The ability to do more of everything at the same time means more enemies, more AI, more explosions, and more realistic game play. Game play that takes into account ragdoll physics and keyframe animation, enemy AI behaving unpredictably, glass cracking based on the size of the object that impacted it, and individual flecks of dust in a beam of sunlight to create a more believable and unique experience. The Cell Broadband Engine has the muscle and horsepower to move beyond artificial intelligence. This is the power that is the digital soul of the PLAYSTATION3 system.
- 1 Central Processing Unit (CPU) and 8 Synergistic Processing Units (SPU)
- 40 times faster than the chip that runs PlayStation 2
- Capable of running at speeds at 3.2 GHz
- Memory bandwidth: 25.6 GBytes per second
IT DREAMS IN BLU-RAY
Dreams are boundless. Their images are expansive and their colors inspired. Up until now, game developers have been dreamers cursed to dream with limitations. Forced to compromise their creative content for precious disc space. Then came the advent of Blu-ray. Just as the DVD offered a technological leap over CDs, the Blu-ray disc is the next leap forward in the advancement of data storage and high definition entertainment. But not as a simple evolution of an existing format. Blu-ray is something entirely different, a revolution catapulting the high definition gaming and movie experience into unknown frontiers. A revolution that finally frees game developers and moviemakers from the constraints of storage space. And allows them to dream in Blu-ray.
- Five to ten times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs
- 50 GB BD vs. 9 GB DVD
- Pristine picture quality with the capability for ultimate high definition1
- Recordable formats with unsurpassed storage capacity to store your digital world (photographs, home videos, music libraries, and data)
- DVD compatibility so existing DVD collections can be enjoyed on Blu-ray hardware2
Read more...
