2004 – 2016retired
PlayStation Portable
“It fit a console in your pocket, and for a while, that was enough to change everything.”
“The supercomputer for the living room finally took its well-earned nap.”
Released on November 11, 2006 in Japan, the PlayStation 3 was Sony's ambitious successor to the PS2, built around the custom Cell Broadband Engine co-developed with IBM and Toshiba. Ken Kutaragi envisioned it as a supercomputer for the living room, and it delivered firsts that defined an era: the first console to use Blu-ray discs, the first with an HDMI port, and the first capable of outputting games in 1080p. It we
The PS3 got smaller in 2009 with the Slim, and it spent years as a reliable hub for games, the PlayStation Network, and even Remote Play with the PSP and Vita. By 2017 it was discontinued, bowing out after more than a decade of service. It leaves behind a legacy as the console that bet on Blu-ray and Full HD before either was obvious.
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“It fit a console in your pocket, and for a while, that was enough to change everything.”
“A palindrome to the end: gone forward and backward all at once.”
“Second screen, first in our hearts”