The Sony PlayStation 3 next-generation game console finally hit the shelves in Japan a few days ago. It’s been a long haul for the PS3 and its Cell processor – we first made note of the thing back in November of 2004. The delay in getting the PS3 to market seems to have been due to a shortage of blue lasers, among other things.
And considering Sonja’s many other recent problems (eg batteries, DRM, SNE), we here at GadgetManiac issue this urgent public appeal — we encourage those readers who have surplus blue lasers (405 nm only, please) laying around the office to send them to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., care/of president Ken Kutaragi – he’d be down with that. Kutaragi is shown here holding a PS3 carton on the occasion of the official product launch on Nov 11 2006 at the Bic Camera store in Tokyo.
The specifications for the PS3 can be found here…in Japanese, but sort of readable. Info on the awesome Cell Broadband Engine 64-bit 9-processor cpu is here…its in IBMese and also kind of readable.
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[...] -Probst observes that while the Sony PlayStation 3 is quite expensive (the console + cables + some games might end up setting you back $800-900), they throw in a high-def Blu-ray player for free. [...]