The first PlayStation console was released in 1994 in Japan and in 1995 in the United States. It was born from a failed collaboration between Sony and Nintendo to produce a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES.

Sony has released a new PS3 update, in 2024, that has made the PlayStation console better, though in what ways exactly, remains to be seen. Released in 2006, and discontinued in 2016, the PS3 is the ...

Today, video games just seem to have the same juice they did even ten or so years ago. Outside of Nintendo's current offerings, consoles feel more like gaming computers than anything else. The Xbox ...

Raul is a freelance writer with four years of writing and editing experience in games journalism. Currently, he is a News Writer at Game Rant and the Managing Editor of Final Weapon, a Japanese gaming ...

Released in late 2006, the Sony PlayStation 3 saw sales cross 88 million before it was eventually discontinued. While it had a rocky start, Sony's little black box eventually surpassed its Microsoft ...

The PlayStation 3 is two decades old — Sony's seventh-generation console launched in 2006 and became the first console to support Blu-ray. Similar to giving your old PS4 new life, an old PlayStation 3 ...

With the recent announcement made by GameStop declaring that the Sony PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U are, for all practical purposes, officially retro consoles, Sony has also put out a ...

Navel-gazing think tankers at Research and Markets say even though the Sony PS3 has lost the opening battle, it will still win the console war, predicting an installed base of 75 million PS3s around ...

A golden PlayStation 3 from gadget manufacturer Stuart Hughes has been named as the world's most expensive console. Priced at £200,000, the limited edition machine has been reformed with 1,600 grams ...

The exact number of PlayStation 3 consoles that were ever produced has been revealed, according to a current Sony employee. In what started as a discussion on Twitter about the PS3's infamous ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of GameRant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...