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Playstation 3 release date

Sony Computer Entertainment revealed the outline of its latest Sony Playstation 3 entertainment system, including the most advanced processors in the world, Cell processor with super computer like power. Moreover, prototypes of Sony Playstation 3 will be showcased at the E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), the largest interactive entertainment exhibition in the world and it is held at Los Angeles Convention Center, from 18th-20th May.

The Sony Playstation 3 combines state of the art technologies especially the Cell, a processor in cooperation developed by Toshiba Corporation, Sony Group and IBM, graphics processor (RSX) developed by Sony Computer Entertainment and NVIDIA Corporation, as well as XDR memory that is developed by Rambus Inc. In addition, it also takes up Blu-Ray Disc ROM (BD-ROM) with a high storage capacity of 54 Gigabytes, enabling deliverance of entertainment content in high definition quality (HD), under a safe environment made possible throughout the most highly developed copyright protection technology. To go with the accelerating junction of computer technology and digital consumer electronics, Sony Playstation 3 is able to support high quality display in the resolution of 1080p which is superior to 720p/1080i.

With an irresistible computing supremacy of 2 teraflops, totally new graphical expressions that have never been seen will become possible. In video games, not only movement of characters but objects as well is more realistic and refined, but virtual worlds and landscapes also can be rendered in real time, thus enriching the freedom of video graphics expression to stages that is not experienced in the previous console. Gamers will plainly be able to lunge into the nearly realistic world seen in big screen movies as well as experiencing the excitement in real time.

Sony Computer Entertainment launched the original Playstation in 1994, followed by Playstation 2 in 2000 as well as Playstation Portable in 2004, with each time introducing the newest advancement in technology plus bringing innovation to interactive entertainment software creation. By now over 13,000 games titles have been developed which create a software market that can sell more than 250 million titles every year. Sony Playstation 3 offers backward compatibility, which enables gamers to enjoy these huge assets from Playstation and Playstation 2 platforms. However, Sony Computer Entertainment has not confirmed the Playstation 3 release date at this time.

Playstation's family of products has sold more than 120 countries as well as regions around the world. Moreover, with cumulative shipments reaching more than 102 million for Playstation and roughly 89 million for Playstation 2, they are the undeniable leaders and have turn out to be the typical platform for home entertainment. What is more, after twelve years from the prologue of the original Playstation and six years from the launch of Playstation 2, Sony Computer Entertainment brings Sony Playstation 3, the latest platform with the most complex computer entertainment technology.

Furthermore, with the deliverance of Cell based improvement tools that has already started, development of game titles and tools as well as middleware are in progress.

All the way through collaboration with world's middleware and leading tools companies, Sony Computer Entertainment will provide full support to this new content creation by assisting game developers with wide-ranging libraries and tools that will boost out the potential power of the Cell processor as well as enable resourceful software development.

The official European, North American and European declared that Playstation 3 release date will be sometime in November 2006, not spring of 2006.